Just standing back and letting the ugliness reveal itself doesn’t seem like part of any recognizably “aesthetic” project at all. 2/2

I’m with Nietzsche to think that a “resolution to find the world ugly and bad [will make] the world ugly and bad.” The aesthetic drive is the drive to make the world more beautiful when and where we can. “Beautiful” works include works that confront the world’s ugliest realities. 1/2

Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes]

Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious]

Some Academics:

I believe it was George Washington who said, “WTAF?”

Tucker Carlson is sorry about all that.

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We desperately need more fish.

The Throwaway Planet | Caroline Fraser Three books raise political and moral questions about human consumption—and the value we place on those who clean up the waste.

“Every day 8.2 billion of us discard ‘1.5 billion plastic cups, 250 million pounds of clothes, 220 million aluminum cans, 3 million tires.’ [] By 2050 the weight of plastic refuse in the oceans alone will exceed, Clapp says, ‘the weight of all fish put together.’”

fool-proof way to answer this question: run the “[x] room” thought experiment for every non-Chinese-speaking country x

Guys is it gay to get to the airport in time to make my flight?

Baude doesn’t admit this wasn’t doing law, and indeed characterizes what Robert’s did merely as “not … foregoing [his] own view of the law.” An idea in some tension with his fourth point!

thestraitdope-dot-com

You’d need a catchy name to get people to read it though.

What a farce.

Every. Six. Days.

I want to know what blog post it was and which justice cited it!

lmao. I’d like to know who cited what blog post.

Gift link 👇🏼

Also, hoping the lady who says Obama is guilty of treason, the guy who thinks Trump is Jesus, the lady sleeping with her security detail and who drinks on the job, and the guy who harvests raccoon penises will vote the president mentally unfit for office doesn't seem like the soundest strategy.

otoh if he drops dead no pardons to his aiders and abettors(unless he’s already issued them all pocket pardons)

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Bar membership ain’t tenure, man.

Coming to terms with the fact that I am just gonna keep screwing up forgo/forego forever

They observed that my smile didn’t “reach my eyes” but they were lucky it reached the goddamn corners of my mouth.

a-la hippo’s classic:

“So I can be disbarred merely for writing words in a court document?!”

Portrayal of the 1905 Potemkin Mutiny, made in France just days after sailors rebelled. They refused to eat the maggot-infested rations given to them and things quickly turned violent.

Academic work can be bad or misconceived or subject to partisan capture, of course, but a field’s misalignment with the political spectrum outside the field isn’t reliable evidence of that.

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