I mean, yeah, but it DID actually derail his presidential campaign. That is a consequence of an appropriate magnitude I feel.

But again, if you are Trump, you are running a campaign on the idea that you are a hyper-competent businessman who only hires good people. So if you hire people who are too incompetent to notice the optics of borrowing lines, even if it's from yourself, in a speech being given the night after a speech that contained…

Yeah, 20 years after the fact…

Self-plagiarism is a thing. I have failed students for it. Moreover, since a central part of Donald Trump's case for himself is that he hires "the best people," what does this say about that claim?

I basically agree with all of these points, but let's be honest, most white politicians regardless of party or ideology were pretty much on board with redlining and restrictive covenants. Or at least uninterested in doing anything about it.

I mostly use historical newspaper accounts and historical maps, but also some personal journals, other histories, and government documents when I can. With what I'm specifically studying, it's hard. Staten Island is the unloved child of New York City and seemingly nobody cares what happens there, so a lot of the…

I've been waiting for a spacehog, but in the meantime, this will do.

I did hear a report on a public radio show not so long ago that Murdoch's kids supposedly want to move the network toward the mainstream post-Ailes. Who knows what that means or if they'll succeed, but interesting if true.

It has a few pieces, but yeah, there's some longer-term history, there's some history relating to development in the floodplain, etc. I should point out that I'm not a historian.

It varies. My postdoc is much like a science postdoc. PI has a mixture of grant and university funding for a major data collection and analysis project, postdoc salaries are written into the proposals, PI recruits postdocs who work roughly 2-3 years and then go do something else. I will get time for my own projects…

Staten Island, Hurricane Sandy, some other stuff related to the two.

I'm in the process of tying up loose ends in graduate school before heading off to a postdoc, so I am reading fairly heavy social theory stuff right now. I'm heading to the library in a few hours to grab a literal pile of books by and about Giddens and structuration theory. Good times. Can't wait until I have time to…

I cite this book in my dissertation, but I've only read a small bit that's directly relevant to my work. I'd love to get around to reading the whole thing at some point.

I took an American Politics honors seminar as an undergrad years ago where this book was one of the assigned readings, and at the time, I didn't understand how this book belonged in an academic curriculum about American politics. In retrospect, it has a hell of a lot more to say about how American politics actually…

Was it Square One that had the Dragnet parodies? Whichever show it was that had those, I loved those.

There are plenty of dicks in engineering, too. Lots of libertarians and gamergate types in my experience. Certainly by no means all of them, probably not a majority even, but yeah, they're… overrepresented in the field.

It doesn't help that Jon's suits didn't even fit right in this era. He looks like a kid wearing his dad's suit.

*rein

I know, it hurts to be wrong.

Sigh. I literally write surveys as part of my job, I'm not just speculating here. I'll break this down because I think understanding polls is important. The two stories aren't talking about the same question, so they aren't directly comparable. Gallup typically asks respondents to rate the major party candidates on a…