So if I'm reading the Politically Savvy People Discourse correctly, it seems the way to defeat fascism is not by protecting voter rights, working against racism, or actually fighting fascists, but to stop making white people sad and let Radio Fr** Tom be in charge.
Sure, Tom and all his buddies built the foundation and the walls for all this, but now they want us to let them fire the current roofers and do that, too. Makes total sense. Such a fucking svengali.
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"Look, I know the orcs totally fucked up Osgilliath and killed your friends, but they want to send a message to Sauron and Mordor just like us, so let's let them lead our battalions and we'll worry about Gondor later."
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One time, 30 yrs ago, James Carville taped a sign that said "it's the economy, stupid" to the wall, the entire punditocracy reacted as if he'd just come down from Mt. Sinai with divinely-etched stone tablets, and we've had to listen to his thinly-veiled racist garbage ever since.
I know this isn't a new observation, but the way we finance health care in this country is a goddamn joke.
I'm fortunate to be in a position where I can pay this bill, but damn. This is one of the underappreciated consequences of a struggling small-college sector--institutions cutting costs by negotiating shittier employee health policies. In practice, it's essentially a pay cut.
Not to mention, tying health insurance to full-time employment is one of the worst policy choices this country continues to make.
Bad ways to market your book, a primer: 1. Send an email with no salutation, context, or anything to suggest why I'm getting it 2. Have said email be an essay that veers fully into get-off-my-lawn territory early and often 3. Make said essay 5,557 words long (27 fucking pages)
I read the whole thing because I saw it as a personal challenge. It's soooo goddamn tedious--a classic case of an Ivy-leaguer universalizing their own idiosyncratic context to make a Bold Claim™ that ends up being "I don't like what the kids are doing today."
And the other Bold Claim™ is that higher ed needs to focus on teaching, to which I would reply: 1. Yes, but there are many folks saying that, and doing it better than you 2. You have a great teaching & learning center on your own campus that you seem completely ignorant of.