Or that he didn’t actually get away with it.  My first thought, “No kidding.  He is actually going to trial for this.  That’s nice for a change.” 

I completely agree. I am very grateful for our Union contract. However, the contract was negotiated prior to COVID with very robust protections for faculty choice in many areas, including format.

To be clear: I feel very, very fortunate. I live in Michigan with Gretchen Whitmer, a sane, female Democrat as our governor. We also have a very strong union (yay, Michigan!) that has been super clear with the administration that faculty will have the choice to teach as they see fit, and online will be the default for…

Similar situation here in Michigan (not surprising since SE Michigan and Southern Ontario blend together so much.) A bunch of city people are renting their vacation homes on Airbnb and VRBO, then shocked when the lake communities are really upset. Like Ontario, the hospital system is basically non-existent in these…

I think you are right. Husband and I also speculated that the privileged class isn’t used to being told no - throwing money at any problem and making a fuss usually bends the world their wants. COVID cannot be reasoned with, or berated onto submission, or bought off, and it is a completely new phenomenon for so many…

Same, on nearly all fronts - also a Uni prof who prefers in-person teaching, but realizes that we will almost certainly be teaching online this year. Our household is also still practicing masked social distancing while our state has opened up, with the intention of maintaining until science says otherwise.

Reason #7587 why I won’t subscribe to the NYT. They have bought into the “two sides with great people” bullshit, and I am not here for it. Tom Cotton can publish his editorial in some rag, but the “paper of record” doesn’t need to publish it. Or anything by second-rate GOP hacks for that matter. There are *not* good…

The cover photo should be in the Urban Dictionary next to: Goddess grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.

Even the Michigan “very good people” protests were relatively tiny: just a few thousand people from a state of 10 million people, and some of them were from out of state. Dude is wack.

The Anti-Midas touch:

That is pretty scary. I can’t imagine going to someone else’s city to destroy things. Or to try to create violence. I would be curious to see if these people have white supremacist content on social media when the police blotter lists are published.

It used to take hours to read all of the comments. ☹️

I also saw this on some Instagram stories from MSP today.

Yup, and Canada has something for everyone. This is Trudeau with his wife, Sophie Gregoire:

In fairness, Trudeau’s a smokeshow...so bookmarking is the natural move.  He should let his hair grow all the time.  Woof.

Living in Canada’s back yard, we see and hear a lot of Canadian media. This was required viewing a few weeks ago.

The Great Outdoors is a classic, IMHO.

He is also vetting MI Governor Gretchen (Big Gretch) Whitmer. Check out the Big Gretch rap for some quarantine fun.

My husband and I decided not to have children nearly a decade ago. This decade has given me absolutely no reasons to doubt my decision. Bringing a child into a world where they are likely to endure cycles of environmental disasters, war, famine, civil unrest, joblessness, and lack of healthcare....ummm, no?

Like you, I was sick with chills, a slight fever (still below 100°F, but I run cool even when healthy), a total loss of smell and taste, body aches, and a persistent low-grade cough for two weeks in mid-March. It was terrifying, because the guidance was so inconsistent.