What, they think we’ll turn into Viltrumites if we just weed out enough of the weak?

The most charitable take on this is that those rurals told them this just to shut them up with no intention of carrying through. And it worked.

Someone saw the “what not to do about Iran” playbook and decided the mature reaction was “you can’t tell me what to do!”

Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

In medieval England, the Feet of Fines was a set of legal documents that among other things recorded fictitious legal disputes in order to publicly register money or asset transfers between two parties. No dispute actually existed - it was just a vehicle to justify payments. Sound familiar?

IANAL, but I wonder if another state could sue under Article 4 clauses to prevent this on the basis that it would give Virginia (and Maryland, if they did the same) unique ability to weigh in on federal officials and their activities due to where most departments are headquartered.

There's nothing like a friggin' spam filter rerouting an important email that looks nothing like any actual spam you ever receive to ruin your day. And with so many spam emails now clogging the internet, finding that needle in the haystack again is one hell of a chore.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

The biggest problem people will have convincing Americans that bombing civilian infrastructure is evil is the mythic place World War II has in the American mind. Slagging the infrastructure of our enemies was a key strategy then, and so it must be acceptable, no? That is what you have to overcome.

Their ideas of what a 'just war' looks like are ossified with World War II. Since that was a 'good war', anything we did in it must be good now.

Ice cream barge - Wikipedia

You had industrial refrigeration by that point - the most famous example were the ice cream ships of the US Navy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cre...

If Federal agents from any agency can just be effectively transferred around to do anyone else's job at will, then arguing about which agency gets what funding is meaningless. The boondoggle of last year's mass funding of ICE simply created a huge police state regardless of on-paper boundaries.

It’s one thing to not meet the moment, it’s a whole new level to create the moment that you can’t meet.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac.

He led quite a life. (1/53)

Watching all sorts of institutions this year make deliberate choices to destroy the very things that make them viable, sustainable, and in many cases profitable has been something else. This year really is full of groups having utter self-delusions about what they are and what makes them successful.

My best anti-communist class in college was a class on Marxism. The true believer who taught it was so noxious it encouraged the students to spend the entire semester trying to take him and the ideology down.

Plenty of people around to provide that if you wanted it - it was a university town, after all. But halfway decent Mexican? That was something else altogether.

Oh, I'm familiar - I filled that role as a NTT faculty for some of the schools I taught at back in my university days. My point was that there are a lot of schools where the departments have to address that particular need, but almost go out of their way to fail to do so.

One reason I find this all very ironic is how many departments have obligations to provide appropriate courses for rotc programs. Hire someone milhis, make them the liaison/coordinator, and no one else is obligated ever again. Win/win.

My social life in college became amazing when it became known I was the only person in the northern English city I lived in who knew how to make edible enchiladas.

Sometimes, even in the darkest of moments, you find out that your students learned your lessons well. Have faith in your students, and they will have faith in you. #edusky

You can arguably teach the required cases for AP Gov in a single day, if your kids are good at memorizing two-paragraph summaries. Learning something actually useful about it takes more time, but that doesn't come up on the test.

So much for dignity. Not that I am surprised, mind.

May seriously consider baking cookies or something. 'Brownies' would probably be more appropriate, but I have neither the ingredients or the interest in adding additional felonies.

I'm really going to get arrested for child abuse by requiring watching this for my AP Government class, aren't I?

The media decided to portray all of that as happening under Biden - most people forget the first year of the pandemic was under Trump. This is the problem with November elections - people remember voting in a year, and assume dumbly that means the year is owned by who was elected that year.

Gee, let’s just go back to Napoleonic-era purchasing your commissions.

My social life as a postgrad at Durham was very lively thanks to being decent at chili and enchiladas.