Lots of 6-month contracts for the Carpenters and IBEW and that’s all anyone in this city is ever allowed to consider apparently.

The Maleficent popped collar is really the icing on the cake here.

Mayor Faust continuing to dine out on the profits from her soul.

And, AND! it’s under boil advisory only like 2 out of every 5 business days!

A small, shabby water fountain attached to a brick wall.

Faculty! Share a pic of your lounge!

Cheap public higher ed.

Throw off the niceties of liberalism and Enlightenment and those same old stubborn 1600s are still under there, stewing.

Businessman is first, and so far only, donor to St. Louis police chief's UMSL job Emerson, the Clayton-based technology and automation company, said it also plans to help in coming weeks.

The local paper is soliciting bribes for the police chief via the laundering operation of a local university and explain to me again how my teaching the history of slavery is the trust problem in higher ed?

Bro wants his Kennedy silver platter back.

I’ll just pop this up again since Andy Beshear is a white Gen X dude.

Tom Waits jukebox musical when?

Farmed out to 50,000 adjuncts to try and find a use case for this sh*t.

The lesson tech finance learned from 2008 was you never have to face the crash so long as you can keep moving the money from rapidly deflating assets into rapidly inflating assets.

Like Wile E. Coyote, you’ll be fine so long as you never look down.

They want a consensus that conservatism is infallible, ordained, and permanent.

For them “balance” means “undisturbed.”

This is true and also gets at the core of the conservative project though: any approach that (factually) portrays conservative belief as human, fallible, contingent, subject to criticism is “left-leaning” and must be banned.

And my whole career has been formed around my deep resentment of that damn book.

That was also my first book in my first seminar. Everyone went around and chose and I was last. Prof smiled, reached into his bag, pulled out that brick, tossed it at me, and said “Good luck!”

Sitting ducks for a bullshit storyteller like Trump.

Resulting in all the work Gen X does to turn their cushy 2-income suburban childhoods into hardscrabble stories. “We drank from hoses (in leafy green neighborhoods with clean running water)!” “We had to play outdoors (in the racially segregated parklands of our neighborhoods)!”

And when we graduated and did fine, we had to maintain that sense grievance and victimhood because our identity had been built around it.

White Gen Xers entering the workforce were told every day of the 1980s and 1990s we were going to be worse off than our parents and that it was because of unions and civil rights. And a lot of us believed it in the face of all evidence.

They are also fundamental to the research process itself. It’s like telling a cellular biologist they can’t use their centrifuge because it looks bad to the general public.

Those kids we poisoned with lead now need a chance to die of thirst!

St. Louis leadership: always desperate to be the last people to do the wrong thing.

And believe me when I say it costs me pounds of my soul to acknowledge this. And it is not so much the strength of the project as the ability to narrate it in a certain way. There’s a code that is being taught, learned, and reinforced here.

It irritates me to no end when I review fellowships how the apps from the same schools are consistently (but not universally!) stronger, at least according to the rubrics I’m given.

Like, I will pay stupid money if you give me a coffee-and-cream Hilux with a 250-mile range

My most committed take is Toyota needs to re-release all their 80s trucks and vans (complete with the burnt rainbow styling) as EVs.

Not coincidentally the same months when the Delta wave surged and put a kibosh on the notion Covid was going to be immediately cured by the first vaccines.

We were also being paid slightly less than $85 million to run it.