chad black 💚

Exactly. It’s not a historical claim, it’s an aspirational claim.

Conservatively, 80% or more of our social and governance problems could largely be fixed by a return to robust progressive taxation.

Right, because the options available are either the saturation of Flock cameras across cities or physical toll booths. It's not automatic license plate readers on toll roads that people are concerned with.

My experience of the last year is that no one is more surprised when an American Airlines flight shows up at a gate than the ground crews who is supposed to be there to meet it.

Happy to report I was able to stop
By the Admiral’s Club running from a late arrival to my next gate, where they were happy, if not also quizzical, to give me a pen.

A great tragedy has occurred. I’ve boarded this plane with two books in tow, but nary a pen, pencil, or highlighter.

I feel like this is the double whammy of both computer literacy and literacy literacy. Like, the decline in reading books, or any non-exerpted text could well mean students aren't all that familiar with the practice of indenting paragraphs?

Siempre que veo a los estudiantes leyendo PDF en sus teléfonos… quiero gritar y me siento viejo 1000 años.

The moment that Amazon MGM paid $40M for the Melania movie was the moment its performance on opening week ceased to matter.

YouTube video by mi6spy005 Red Dawn - Clip 03 - AVENGE ME!

Lately, every time I read Benjamin's Theses and his language of the weak messianic obligation of the present to redeem the suffering in the past, I think of Harry Dean Stanton in Red Dawn. (The first PG-13 movie, which I saw at age 12 and thought I got away with something). AVENGE ME!

Oh, damn. RIP Catherine O'Hara.

*in the White House

What are the chances someone I. The White House bought Embraer stock right before this post went out?

Very possible.

Doing my part in my classes tomorrow.

For most all of my life, I never would have believed that it would be the GOP that chose to intentionally destroy American global hegemony. It is still almost unbelievable that they would do it for zero compelling reasons. Just an act of national self-immolation.

Yes! Let's also revive the days when public service was so valued that public buildings made a statement of the pride a locality took in it. That wouldn't mean reviving classical architecture, as much as re-infusing beauty in our public spaces.

It definitely works better as an artifact of its time.

I swear, their messaging sounds like it was written by an AI trained on failed consultant memos written in 1996.

Delete your account and fire your comms team, man. This is pathetic, not disciplined.

And then shut off their airspace to US airlines.

Nobel and FIFA both need to shutdown until we can all figure out what's going on with the peace awards.

Starting my classes this semester with a day dedicated to being a luddite curmudgeon.

Kant on why charity is not welfare:

"Having the resources to practice such beneficence as depends upon the goods of fortune is... the result of human beings being favored through the injustice of government, which introduces an inequality of wealth that makes others need their beneficence."

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

And, like, pitting colleges against one another in ways that encourage them to manufacture their own version of gen ed classes to keep the credit hours in their own school rather than the departments of expertise.

I wish I was less curious. I'd publish more.

Congratulations!

Let's make every show or movie look like a low budget soap opera, but with lots of detail!

really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces