Dude has obviously not read a papal encyclical since 1891.

Gosh it is nice to live in Taiwan where anti-vaccine wackos are not platformed.

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I generally hate these services, but if you can purchase a skip the line ticket in ATH, you should do so. By the way, ATH

What is … a faculty lounge?

Bullpen offices, yes.

Seriously at my Chinese university construction workers commandeered a tentative faculty lounge for smoking.

Greek temple at magic hour. The sky is blue. The Temple ofHephaestus. Athens, Greece.

My advice for travel: make jet lag work for you. I opened the Agora in Athens today and for about 20 minutes, I had the place to myself.

It is 1939. My mind is going on retirement.

An Albanian bank promoting its Visa card has to be one of the funniest ads that I have seen in some time.

A parking lot full of cars. A hotel in the distance. The sky is blue.

New room new view. Tirana, Albania. My next one will be better.

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In preparation for the NFL Draft, everyone should rewatch the “Cole Landry Draft Day Party,” episode of Party Down.

Ruins of the Roman Amphitheater dating to c. 100 AD. A semi circle of what was two tiers of seating areas. A green area marks the actual arena floor. Tall buildings around the area. The clear sky is blue.

@shakespeare.lol

While you beguile the time and feed your knowledge

With viewing the town: there shall you have me.

Durres, Albania.

A port is behind a city street. There stacks of containers. A giant ferry is docked. Cranes are loading containers on to a shop. There is a blue sky.

New room new view. Durres, Albania. It is like Season 2 of The Wire!

A circular stone tower about 15 meters tall Datong to 16th century or so.

The Venetian Tower, Durres, Albania. I used pictures of this structure twice in my classes. 1) a 1940 picture of Italian troops marching by. WWII class. 2) graffiti —since removed—quoting NWA. Global History survey.

And if I may say, “The Invisible Front” is a perfect piece of music.

Running for a cabinet seat … or a book deal

New room new view. Vlore, Albania. The sun sets over s pier and amusement park next to the sea. There is a mountain in the background.

“You’re all a bunch of socialists.”

Allow me to say that Taiwan is a chip manufacturer with a de facto government attached.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been an arm of the Republican party for at least 20 years, probably longer (though getting to be less so now). So the "stay out of politics" stuff just makes me laugh.

Wall with assorted graffiti featuring “Obama-Hood.”

New room new view. Serande, Albania.

A Greek style statue of a woman holding a scroll. She is wearing draped clothing. There is a column behind her. Behind that is a veranda and white French doors.

Clio in the Garden of the Muses, Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece.

I always thank the bus driver. The nuns would slap us if we didn’t.

Corfu, Greece bus ticket. Two euro ticket with Greek with characters.

Amazing how quickly I have learned the Corfu bus system.

I hope that people flood his feed with pictures of Ninoy Aquino (Jr.) and mock Douthat until he retracts it.

Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work

View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Red clay pottery fragments in the cracks in the cobblestone streets of Corfu, Greece.

Clay pottery fragments still in the street. Yes, we intentionally missed Orthodox Easter in Corfu.

Ionic column head with red, blue, and gold trim.

Would Donald Trump approve of this column? I suspect not. He probably would tear down the Achilleon just because of this.

A blue sky over the Venetian Fortress. Rows of buildings with antennas.

New room new new view. Corfu, Greece.

Soon the Washington Post will feature an article which says that Trump has a point in his beef with Pope Leo XIV.