How many course releases do I get, and can I avoid committee work, which is for suckers.

OTOH almost everything on the Revolutionary War was uncritical.

A fond memory is 8th or 9th grade, public school NC, doing the Spanish-Am war, and really picking up on the teacher's message that this was a pivotal moment worth understanding on its own.

You haven't flown in decades, have you?

A politics of racist reaction, which Nixon and Agnew suceeded with in 1968 and which Reagan took up, could function at the Presidential level sooner than at the local level, largely because there were a lot of Southern Democrats in the House at the start of this period.

I have seen people finish uploading grades as their flight is being called.

By the time you're up on the US W coast, all the obvious jokes have been made.

Do you read?

Cars don't climb stairs though.

I could say more about the Minsky point if that's what you mean.

My reflection that PKers are not much tolerant of arguments about physical limits is from decades-old interactions with Paul Davidson and Randall Wray (from both of whom I learned lots).

Losing the will to live. That thread is full of people saying oh, so true, and sharing other fake quotes.

Found my niche.

Always amazed people have this kind of money to burn, but it looks like intersting artisans and artists got work.

How out of place the TV screens look.

Is Gaudí a useful influence, or a snare for the unwary?

There's a PK tendency to assume that because some arguments about physical constraints are bad arguments, they all are.

What I learned from Minsky is that physical production and finance are deeply intertwined, but that doesn't mean you can drop out the problems of making and moving stuff.

The AI part is certainly new. And there might be an argument that older print media did a little filtering and thinking that is gone now. Dunno: older print culture is also full of terrible, repetitive, derivative nonsense but we forget about it.

I salute HW for posting an edibles joke and getting people to argue over Foucault.

Doesn't the quote explain this? If you want to do this crime you go where likely victims are concentrated.

? You may not like them, but the books are quite different.

I did read the thing, and I think the comment is right! Do the social history of any past place/time and you will find stupid catch-phrases, silly stuff repeated because it's silly. Most people are unoriginal. I struggled to find any persuasive argument that it is different this time.

Maybe they just included the dirty bits.

When you realize you are Not the Intended Audience:

"Before he outlined a new plan to tax multimillion-dollar pied-à-terre properties ... he moved uncomfortably close to the camera, looked into the lens and pecked at it with his finger."

Mass transit indoctrination!

Your transit is very important to us. Please stay on the line ...

It's science.

A small fluffy white dog in a green sweater curls up in an orange and blue travel crate, untroubled by the clashing colors.

Getting used to travel crates.

Max can be anxious, but he's a claustrophile. He sometimes naps there on his own and doesn't mind if it's shut a bit.

Marty is highly suspicious of crates. Yesterday I gave him a treat and shut him in his for a minute and he looked at me like what the hell dude.

I really enjoyed teaching Allan Bloom in a required intro course. Students didn't expect it, and even self-identified conservatives weren't used to conservative arguments with a logical structure.

Also taught Richard Rodriguez for a while, who really disrupted their priors.

The stretcher is a great touch.

Not everyone can handle so much authenticity.

Scrooge McDuck diving into piles of money. From https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/swimming-in-my-money-like-scrooge-mcduck-fc2140e78ee

But he's also written several scholarly books!