I wrote to him through the Craig’s List ad to encourage him to just accept the help, and I asked for his PayPal. He said the Go Fund Me page would be up again soon and he provided me with a PayPal account. So, if you want to help, reach out to him!

I have a PhD, as do most of the people I know and am friends with. Their educational trajectories track, to a person, the model described in the article. There may be some field out there in which PhDs are mid-career students returning to school, but I don’t know what it is. Forestry, English, history, ag economics,…

Do you know a lot of PhDs in Women’s Studies? I do. They are brilliant, productive people. I don’t know anyone with an MA (MFA?) in Interior Design, but I do know many gainfully employed interior designers. It’s a cheap shot, to imply that people with humanities or fine arts degrees are all working in the service…

That makes sense. Thanks for the reply!

Why the focus only on science graduate students? The model you suggest applies to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences as well. And those students will likely be hurt even harder if this change goes through, because jobs in the humanities and social sciences pay less than STEM jobs anyway, and there…

Ugh, you’re using the word “eluding” wrong. You mean “suggesting.” One can “allude to” (make a veiled reference to) something. One can elude (avoid) something. The meaning of something can elude (escape) someone. But someone cannot elude “that the Clinton campaign” blah blah blah. It is so hard to take you all…

There is no doubt in my mind that Lindsay Lohan is dating—or wants to date—a man who said, “She should be there for her husband.” She’s parroting what she heard, from some guy in Dubai no less, because she is angling for resources. It’s sad. 

Look! http://cornellsun.com/2017/09/20/arrested-cornell-student-apologizes-for-unacceptable-and-inappropriate-language/ He apologized. So, it’s all fine now.

For funsies, try the literacy tests here https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/voting_literacy.html and here http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html

“Spirit of Freedom,” also known as the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, DC. Not on the National Mall proper, but a national memorial nonetheless. (It’s now maintained by the National Park Service after being built with private funds.) The sculpture features a black family on one side, and USCT troops…

I live a few blocks off of this road. Help us out! I’d like to see it named for Samuel Tucker, who was an Alexandria lawyer who led one of the first-ever sit-ins (in 1939) to integrate the local public library.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilbert_Tucker

I don’t really see how any convertible story could surpass the death of Isadora Duncan, an internationally known dancer who famously died when the scarf she was wearing got tangled in the rear hubcap of the car she was riding in, pulling her from the vehicle and breaking her neck. This happened in Nice in 1927, making…

EXACTLY. Because the only position for women in the movement is prone.

I’m not one for conspiracy theories, so I hate to dump water of the very reasonable conclusion that you draw. But, the problem is, where could the ambulance be to create a reflection in those windows and those windows alone? The reflection is in the northwest corner of the building, which is 1.5 blocks from 17th St to…

I read store-bought Mother’s Day cards with fascination. The idea that my mom A) is my best friend; B) is my role model; C) “is always there for me”; D) loves me unconditionally is HI-LARIOUS. So, I make my own cards for her, and sometimes they come from my dog.

And I’ll add, nothing better establishes your ignorance and especially that of your readers, than that you had to open this piece with the phrase “singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.” It reminds me of when Avril Levigne mispronounced David Bowie’s name. Oops, sorry, I mean “singer-songwriter David Bowie.”

Yes, plus he’s Bob Fucking Dylan. He gets to do what he wants. I’m fascinated that people who haven’t written a thank-you note in their entire lives are now viciously Emily Post-ing Dylan, probably to conceal the fact of their own ignorance about his significance. But I’m sure they know all the words to a Selena…

He wrote a very gracious acceptance speech, which you can read here: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech_en.html. But he declined to attend the event, and that’s ok, because he’s an old man, he’s a musician who is not especially interested in accolades, plus, oh that’s right,…

Please do your homework. Please. That map does not depict “how millennials voted.”