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Mole

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  1. Sister Cindy is one the great performance artists of our time: Whom
  2. Too much news and it’s too exciting. Most news should be pretty boring. If it’s constantly making you angry, you’re consuming propaganda, not news. Certainly some news should make you angry, but the constant stream of rage isn’t healthy and doesn’t give you an honest view of the world. The nearly live clips (with no context) are exciting. They make you feel something. They show a very narrow, less-than-honest view of what’s happening but make you feel like you know what’s going on, all while feeding your need for anger and rage. It isn’t news; it’s propaganda.
  3. In terms of luck, let’s not forget being a big toe away from nocking off Milwaukee in their championship run. What an amazing clutch shot that came less than an inch from being so much bigger.
  4. Mole

    Media Bias

    NPR suffers from the affliction known as bâton dans le derriére. This infects everything they do, particularly their news/political coverage. I used to enjoy their lighter Saturday broadcasts, but those have become more political and less funny in our present era. I just want to hear clever puns with underlying snobbery, not tired jokes dunking on terrible people. It’s nice to be able to hear classical music on the radio even if they’re apparently contractually obligated to play Beethoven or Brahms every 3rd piece. I haven’t listened much in recent years to see if I can still hear Alec Baldwin’s gravelly voice introduce yet another performance of Beethoven 7. Bruce Adolphe’s piano puzzlers on performance today are fun though. Diane Rehm’s fart sniffing was worth it to hear Claude Bolling’s Toot Suite as the theme song. Their local/state news coverage is quite good, complete with that awkward local NPR feel.
  5. In 2018, RimjobSteve posts a meme on Reddit of Trump storing walnuts in his rectum. The meme goes ignored until the pandemic when prospective juror #69 sees it while doomscrolling and shares it on Twitter. No one cares at the time. In 2024, the meme is read into the court record during jury selection. In 2117, as historians study the fall of the United States, the rectum/walnut meme is regularly cited in the most prestigious journals. RimjobSteve is a small but important player in history. What a time to be alive.
  6. I’m late to the party, but this is the key phrase here with every outrage of the day.
  7. 1. Small town folk hero mayor/pastor leads a relatively inclusive Baptist church and is loved by all. 2. Mayor/pastor secretly cross dresses and also has an out gay son. The family knows about the cross dressing, but the general public doesn’t. 3. Mayor/pastor posts cross-dressing pictures online semi-anonymously. He also posts violent/erotic stories. Some of these posts bring real people — innocent bystanders — into the story. 4. A culture warrior pseudo-journalist who preaches violent non-inclusion acquires the mayor/pastor’s pictures and posts them online. The pastor and family beg the culture warrior to remove the story. 5. I’m pretty sure that this story ended up in another thread on this site where the “southern Baptist cross-dressing hypocrite” narrative was accepted uncritically. I could be wrong, but this story seems familiar. 6. The pseudo-journalist culture warrior then posts the erotic fiction as well. 7. Mayor/pastor kills himself; a family and community are broken. 8. Pseudo-journalist rationalizes his terrible behavior. 9. We all start our Saturday morning with a nice, terrible emptiness.
  8. This thread makes me think of those city girls who lived up the stairs.
  9. Disrespect for geometry is obtuse behavior.
  10. It depends on how much the assignment is worth and the student’s record. Usually, a first offense is a zero on the assignment and some training. If they have some history of cheating, it progresses to being withdrawn from the class with a failing grade or expulsion. I’ve come to respect our worst writers on campus — at least I know they’re failing honestly.
  11. Sources of academic fraud that I see from my small corner of academia: 1. For-profit institutions 2. The shocking number of folks in administrative roles calling themselves Dr. when their doctorate comes for a school whose campus is a post office box in Biloxi, Mississippi. 3. Those moronic ChatGPT generated essays from my students that turn everything into a discussion of sustainability and income inequality and read like they were trained on the dumbest parts of Reddit.
  12. Regarding carts, we should give a pass to people who may feel vulnerable and exposed in the parking lot — e.g., women alone at night, depending on the neighborhood. If you feel threatened or unsafe, put your stuff in your car and leave as quickly as possible with no shame. The rest of us need to put our carts back though.
  13. To be fair, Elmo took over the show in a way that contributed to the decline of the show’s quality; and he is whiny, even by muppet standards. On the other hand, my son loved the Elmo’s World segment and Mr. Noodle and his brother and sister was pretty good physical comedy.
  14. Top story from the AP today: https://apnews.com/article/disability-iep-special-education-psych-er-b2ae828a735c50ba562757dfdc7393ca
  15. Let the record show that while you argued quite forcefully and thoroughly against the latter, you made no attempt to address the former, implicitly conceding the point.
  16. It should be: UM, Wash, UT, Bama It will be: FSU, UGA, Adams College, Minnesota State
  17. You get a nice gig as a maintenance supervisor at the Capitol. You’re in the background, watching famous ugly people do ugly famous things. Sure, occasionally you have to repair the rubble and scrub a few walls when a deranged mob sacks the place, but you have a steady paycheck, good benefits, and a nice, quiet life. Then, you’re suddenly the most famous maintenance man in the world for changing out a nameplate. The whole world watches you work, as you hope your crack isn’t showing.
  18. Because this website is filled with shallot losers — not a fungi in the lot. Between you and me, this isn’t anise place and it’s probably time for me to leaf.
  19. I’m a veteran who served long before COVID. I got lots of vaccines during my time and didn’t give them much of a thought. That said, there’s a lot of ignorant pontificating about readiness, military culture, and following orders going on here. 1. For every lawful order, there are tons of exceptions in practice. It’s just the reality of an organization so massive. These exceptions are formalized to varying degrees. 2. For every lawful order, big or small, there’s a huddle of junior enlisted complaining about it and scheming to get out of it. 3. If you find yourself arguing that those in the military “signed up to follow orders” or some variation, you aren’t operating in reality. 4. I don’t care if people were forced out or not; having served during the peak of an unpopular war, I saw how the military makes business decisions based on retention, etc. As long as they make and keep their numbers, they’ll get along just fine. Pushing people out or bringing them back is just a business decision. 5. Get your shots, but maybe put a check on your GI Joe fantasies.
  20. MM needs to spend the week watching this for motivation. https://youtu.be/wDjUMHQryFM?si=QTQvSUncw6GVUgHz
  21. The Lord’s Prayer is a mix of worship, self-reflection (as we forgive those who trespass against us), and petition for provision and safety. He prayed publicly himself, so Jesus as described in the Bible wasn’t against all public prayer, but He sure did have a problem with faithless, self-serving public prayers. Jesus on prayer and petitioning God, Luke 18: The Old Testament is full of stories about God’s mind being changed by prayers. What that means as it relates to God’s will and the terrible things that happen in the world is a fair question, but as someone who looks to Jesus for how I should live and act, the biblical models are enough for me to keep pestering God with whatever’s on my mind. On a practical level, prayer often leads to one of the participants realizing that they can answer the need being prayed for. James 2:16
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