“Plenty of useless idiots who have tenure at top-tier universities.”

I’m angry at architecture profs because of their love for hideous brutalist architecture.

The MIT Media Lab is populated by “science fiction charlatans.” Here’s an ancient but still funny takedown of the Media Lab: https://philip.greenspun.com/humor/media-lab

I know, I barely chuckled at this cartoon, for example. Where’s the laugh?

Taking bets on whether Paul Ryan will follow John Boehner’s lead in becoming a non-asshole after leaving the Speakership.

He caucuses with the Democrats. If that’s the only thing he does as a Senator, it’s still worth it if it allows us to flip the Senate and replace the Senate leadership and committee chairs with Democrats.

Things have gotten a little ridiculous with all of the commencement swag. It used to be that everyone wore just a plan black robe and mortar board, and those earning advanced degrees would wear hoods. Now everyone’s wearing special cords, stoles, flowers, etc.

He can be impeached for any reason, he doesn’t even have to commit a “crime” to be impeached. There just needs to be the will in the House of Representatives to vote for articles of impeachment. Unfortunately the House is filled with Trump stooges.

The “Eagles of Carthage” face a suitably Carthaginian fate.

I dunno, maybe don’t reference “Carthage” in your team name, not really a name associated with winning.

Weird, did you ever figure out what ingredient in Lawry’s was triggering your autoimmune reaction?

Seriously. You know those heavily-armed militia dudes who constantly complain about the danger of government tyranny? Here it is, here’s the government tyranny.

How about if we don’t blame either of them. He died because he succumbed to mental illness. If he died of cancer, we wouldn’t be asking who’s to blame.

These are all great blends, but I’ve come to prefer a cupboard of mono spices. Most of the spice blends start with a handful of basic spices (cumin, paprika, cinnamon, cayenne, etc.) and then maybe they add a few exotics like sumac or nigella seed or something. If you have access to a store with a good bulk spice…

This is what I picture.

In the future, the high houses have been replaced by LLCs, and the King of the Seven Kingdoms is a blowhard real estate developer. All the money’s in the Tyrell Corporation, and the Reach is the Silicon Valley of Westeros. In the North, there’s an opioid crisis among unemployed stone masons and armorers.

There’s also the economic inefficiency of staying in a job that isn’t the right job for you, only to to preserve health insurance benefits for you and your family. If workers could freely change jobs without worrying about the consequences of changes in health insurance coverage, that would be a huge boon to the…

Absolutely. Being a tenured academic is the best job in the world. Who wouldn’t want it.

Come on. Most are still practically kids when they enter the Ph.D. program and most have never had a real job. Most also imagine that they are going to be the ones who flourish in academia and land a tenure-track position.