Thanksgiving cooking log, Stardate 11.26.20: I’m happy to report the first dish has been completed.
Thanksgiving cooking log, supplemental: The turkey is in the oven.
Thanksgiving cooking log, supplemental: soux-cheffed the stuffing, basting the turkey with Tawny port.
Thanksgiving cooking log, supplemental: matzah ball soup is made.
Thanksgiving cooking log, supplemental: meal being digested, turkey and stuffing were quite good. Crew enjoying food coma.
Thanksgiving cooking log, supplemental: recommending Medal of Valor for first officer, in recognition of her outstanding Brussels sprouts.
Thanksgiving cooking log, final report: it’s going to take some effort to try all the desserts. But with a committed bridge crew, I’m confident we’ll succeed!
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Also, as someone who is doing online instruction for grad students, it absolutely is a form of learning. It’s imperfect and suboptimal compared to in-person instruction, but it’s still teaching. Jeff’s point about online learning has more validity for younglings.
The frustrating thing for everyone involved is that online anything is, on the whole, just less efficient. Which means folks like my wife and I are working harder and nonetheless providing a less-than-ideal service. Still, contra Jeff, it’s better than nothing.
I’m glad you asked Erick, because this attempt —which you and other conservatives have made — to make a false equivalence between 2016 and 2020 is worth examining in more detail. 1/
Let’s focus on the most obvious difference: Hillary Clinton conceded the 2016 race within hours or the networks calling it. We are now approaching two weeks between a similar network call and Trump refusing to concede. 2/
Furthermore, by and large Democrats did not sabotage the transition period. Obama’s GSA ascertained the result for Trump almost immediately. Democrats in Congress did not en masse urge Clinton to litigate the outcome. FFS, Clinton attended the inauguration. 3/
This was a decade ago, at the end of an all-day U.S. foreign policy conference at Dartmouth. A few of us headed over to the Hanover Inn for a beer. Some colleagues asked me what else I was working on. I started telling them about the written-but-not-published zombie book... (2/8)
At that particular moment, Theories of International Politics and Zombies had passed peer review at @PrincetonUPress but still needed approval from the board. Ordinarily, that’s pro forma, but for the zombie book I was a touch nervous about its... unorthodox nature. (3/8)