Okay, I can sympathize with that view, but taking your premises, were these children taught the right lesson in this "kerfuffle"? Did you read the letter? Do you think the appropriate response was the resignation of Christakis from his position at Silliman College?

I'd recommend reading the letter that kicked off the shitstorm. Every time I do, I'm struck by how even-handed and appropriate to a college community I think it is. Maybe I'm just totally wrong on this, but I think what happened to the Christakises was an embarrassment for Yale, for the students who live in Silliman…

I hear that complaint, but I'm not as disturbed by it. There are related problems that make that one especially terrible, including the student finance system, the winner-take-all nature of our society, failure to regulate adjunct labor and so on and so forth. The incestuousness of academia is secondary to those, I…

I don't think Chu should lose her job over this, but when juxtaposed with what happened to the Christakises it does highlight the hypocrisy and indefensibility of the modern academic definition of racism as something that only white people can do. Chu's comments were expressly racist and classist, intended to degrade…

Man, I can only imagine how awkward realizing their date didn't go to Harvard was for those men or women.

What happened to the DWP reviews? Is the writer on vacation?

I'm not sure about your math. Melania is 47. Do you really think that Trump is going to wait until she turns into a swamp hag to dump her and get a new model? I mean, he did stick by her into cronehood, but the man has standards.*

I'm not sure Trump's presidency is worse than Bush's yet, but Trump is definitely a worse president day for day. The question is whether he'll be so shit so fast that he'll beat the all time post-Civil War worst set by GWB, or if he'll die/resign/be impeached before he can get there. He's like a candle, burning at…

Less than you'd think. No one gets away clean in Caro's Power Broker, nor do people have fond memories of the government of New York City or New York State from virtually ever. So no one is getting off easy by having Moses to blame for things. The defining feature of Moses was his egocentric autocracy. He could…

They're not actually digital (although such things exist), but most low-grade headphones and computer speakers (of the sort that people used to play mp3s back in their heyday) were marketed as "digital" or "digital ready". This was before the backlash, when "digital" was basically a synonym for "high tech" or…

More like Econ 201: Here is the laundry list of conditions necessary to cause private companies to effectively compete against each other on price, resulting in a net win, as well as a list of public goods and natural monopolies where even a perfect market will fail to produce sustainable and equitable results. Taken…

He is an independent though?

I got a Community notification for this?

MP3s played over digital speakers is so lossy. The highest fidelity way to experience music is by pressing an analogue form of it into semi-rigid plastic and then dragging a needle across it with next to no protection from dust and then pushing the sound out through speakers using very early 20th century technology. …

Well with the caps, italics, bolding and utter lack of a timeline, I for one am convinced that the man has pages.

He is often described as being (and I think has said he is, though google isn't finding it on a quick search) an adherent of the Billy Graham Rule, which covers more than just drinking situations. Basically, the rule boils down to "never be alone with a woman other than your wife at any time."

When they said they were going to repeal Obamacare, people didn't think that meant they'd repeal the ACA. Seriously. They also didn't think the Republicans were going to repeal Kynect, Your Health Idaho or any of the other state implementations of, wait for it, Obamacare.

Really? What planet do you live on that you're far enough away not to feel the fallout?

Hey, John McCain will sometimes mumble something slightly arguably maybe not completely in line with the rest of his party before snapping the fuck to and voting as he's told. He's a maaaaaaaaaaaverick.

It's okay, that brain-dead "the midpoint of any two opinions is the moderate position" phony centrism is counterbalanced by an enormous ecosystem of actual right-wing propaganda. So, you know, the Fourth Estate has Got This.