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Bad art. If you think you know me, you probably do.


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It’s hard to point at the document and say “look at these joyless weirdos” when you’ve got a lot of joyless weirdos in your corner

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Got to “implanting threads deeper into the brain” and tapped out

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Got a Mazda and love that you could ignore the screen if you wanted (and you interact with it via a big knob/wheel near the gearshift)

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Got an unhealthy obsession with early Corsi—would you believe a fabulist is a bit untrustworthy about his own origins? Here are some Rare Corsis from my collection

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Yup! I was re-reading Bill Balthrop’s “Debate Judge as a Critic of Argument” and found cites to early Lichtman/Rohrer/Corsi articles from the paradigm wars days. Here’s an example:

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Every time Allen Lichtman is on TV as the presidential race genius (not turnout though), I remember he wrote policy debate theory articles in the early 80s with Jerome Corsi and has never addressed that fact

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I was in college with a late day of classes and my housemate burst through my bedroom door saying WAKE UP NOW after the first tower fell

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Subfield

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Rest in piss

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My man couldn’t even fend off angry minors

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The last time around I was so transfixed by Sixtus, Alfred and Anselm I missed his wife Helena the Chair

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Extremely British note in the BBC voting explainer

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Green frog!

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IT’S ALMOST EXACTLY YOUR FORECAST BUT SLIGHTLY WEIRDER BECAUSE I’M SOUTH COAST

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Very hard to be POLITICAL when we have jobs and families and social lives

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Love that they made a very handsome man into a fucked up lil guy who can’t get laid

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lol I went to northern Finland like “I’m gonna eat reindeer” then found out a) it’s not great and b) you can’t NOT eat reindeer

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Isn’t that the fantasy of internet posting though?

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Europeans were surprised to hear “the problem for the base is Gaza. How do you support genocide? But how do you then not oppose someone who would do it even more? This is the difficulty, for me at least”

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Without professorial immunity, how can I go Full Sophist?

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Despite his love of Broadway shows, feel very certain Trump isn’t thinking about a line from Hamilton at 3 AM

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In comparing hotels and airbnbs, you can only tip and small-talk your way to royalty in the former

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Airbnb made me realize I want to stay somewhere with a whole corporate floor of lawyers to settle my issue quietly

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In my experience, healthcare workers are saying the same thing my higher ed people are: we know the system is failing and it’s tearing us up

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Really missed my chance to be called Doctor [something cool]. Closest I got was “that’s Dr. Bitch to you.” I am also a bad drummer, if that’s anything.

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Babygirl is trying to talk about misogyny to make an extremely transmisogynistic point and it’s boiling her brain

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Like Game of Thrones, it was a very good show that didn’t stick the landing (though as a fan of both, I was big mad at the time/s)

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Almost a week later, I have one thing to add to presidential debate discourse, which is I hope we all feel comfortable letting Kathleen Hall Jamieson disappear into the horizon

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I saw my first RFK 2024 yard sign in southern New England yesterday!

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I went from LMAO Turtleboy’s in jail to oh no Turtleboy has a point

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The biggest problem is an attempt to talk about reasoning without real understanding of other minds and meaning as a collective endeavor. No phenomenological grounds

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Here’s the article in question: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/s...

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Just read Carl Zimmer on language. Might I very politely suggest at least one humanist who is not—at least strictly speaking—a philosopher. I am left with many questions

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Yes but Ted was APDA, which is run by Ivy League children and (not unrelated) has the dumbest format on earth

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Mohela is the WORST!

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Whoa, you’ve been employed by a nonprofit for over a decade without access to PSLF? That is awful. Who holds your loans?

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Two notes about moderation in the last debate. 1) Dana and Jake are newsreaders, even if they say otherwise. 2) In the world of higher ed, j-school is vocational despite being wildly expensive

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It really sucks to have to choose between who genocides harder

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Weird how they could have accepted this in 2020, but that would require presuming Obama WASN’T an actual wizard

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Probably occupational, but I want debate guys. As a Debate Gal, these people have ruined my life for 25 years

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Ian would say it’s a problem of the middle voice if he could

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It was like THIS IS THE MOVIE PEOPLE QUOTED FROM FOR OVER A DECADE?! Baby no.

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That’s Europe to me. They love a dangerous wet room

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I finally accidentally saw the end of Boondock Saints like two years ago and was like “what is this public access horseshit and why is Billy Connelly involved?”

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Last time I tried, the algorithm guessed “southern” but identified everything but Louisville

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Like all things, there is good condensation and bad. No one has to hand it to bad condensation (ahem), but being against condensation full stop reveals a person as very impressed with themselves

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lol I once saw an executive advisory board member try to sell faculty on streaming a month before that economy cratered

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Scandinavian breakfast culture owns. Imagine many many buffet tables, cold and hot. If breakfast doesn’t totally own, people complain

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We should maybe talk about ITHAKA

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Throwing a slice of balogna at this MF like I’m 10

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