a little hard to pronounce, but I like it! lol

This is why I like to give oral exams to students; quickly parses out the BSers and idiots masquerading as too cool for school dudes.

word needed: combination of enraging and stupid, sort of like the recent invention of word enshittification. suggestions?

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Beautiful Xmas message from Woodlawn Baptist Church pastor in Baton Rouge, LA (NYT, today):
“I would not knowingly extend communion to an illegal immigrant who is visiting our church. That person would be in sin by being in this country illegally. . . They should absolutely deport themselves."

I bet the Dodgers have gold-plated bathrooms.

I know Otani had a decent game last night, but you should have seen my game last week in my seminar class; nothing like it in history. Threw a shutout (all questions asked were strikeouts, students whiffed on all responses), hit two homers (guest lecturer spoke, then let class out early).

Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

The Perils of the Supreme Court Forgetting the Past Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

A reflection on history and freedom. "Histories can be revised; rights revoked."

time.com/7325167/supr...

Please read and share!

Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.

On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning the new Fugitive Slave Law as “cruel and unjust” and directing the city's police “not to render any assistance for the arrest of fugitive slaves.”
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...

Redeeming My Own Work — American Religion Paul Harvey on Redeeming the South (1997)

www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r... Old Man Yells at Cloud . . . err, Senior Scholar reflects on his first book.

Also: agree with Confederacy of Dunces

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Confidence Man.

Classics, albeit in the dark humor mode!

Also, final chapter of Ulysses is for many pages completely hilarious, didn't get that until I heard the audio book version.

I hereby nominate myself.

always look on the bright side of life

All Faculty/Staff email today:

"Are you tasked with planning how your organization/department will get back to doing business as normal after an emergency?"

Why yes! But we're not in the "after" part yet, we're still in Year One of the ongoing emergency. Can I get back to you in 3 years pls?

that clocks the amount of time I am secretly researching this week's fantasy football lineup and answering emails while discussions are ongoing about whether or not we should or should not have a college newsletter, and how we are preparing for upcoming "quality assurance" review

Stolen from facebook: image conveying my contribution and level of engagement this year so far in Chairs and Directors meetings.

A net loss for the US in our open.

The NFL game in Sao Paolo hasn't even started yet but I'm calling it: just move the entire league to Brazil, this is so much better than our boring-ass broadcasts. Saxophone-bass jazz-tinged Star-Spangled Banner almost managed to revive that dead corpse of a tune. Sidebar commentators hilarious.

So actually RFK Jr destroying the public health system in America was in fact on my bingo card for 2025 #shockedshocked

all-star game

That "the professors are the enemy" guy opines on history.

War on Christmas: unconditional surrender by whoever was supposedly waging said war. Costco will have their stuff out by Labor Day.

As a historical theory: FUBAR

Hilarious entry in daily spam messages digest:
mail@hillsdalemail.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Your opinion on the courts needed

Oh yeah, Mr. Hillsdale President, I have opinions.

STFU. You are amazing and have done so much cool stuff and have just barely gotten started.

PUPPY!!

in a word: yes

Is Stephen Douglas behind this?