Crazy suggestion, but maybe Chelsea could finish her degree and get a job before she runs for Senate? Some of her policy positions are admirable (some are not), but they are not well informed. Shouldn’t our elected officials have some experience with the *work* of making policy?

Generally, the only people on the platform are faculty, senior administrators, and special guests (ie, the speaker). It’s probably a professor who is about to be very, very sorry.

It’s alluding, not eluding.

Do we know for a fact that the employee who called the police is white? It has been reported in the news that she’s female, but I’ve seen nothing to indicate race or ethnicity.

I know you’re joking, but this is actually a good strategy for the student activists to pursue. They need to be in his classes, documenting his approach from the inside and challenging his ideas in front of the sympathetic students who like what he’s saying. But, that is an extremely expensive and time-consuming form…

Fair enough! But, I still think Jezebel’s writers should do their own research. The international angle is interesting and worth attention, but neither Jezebel article on the demonstrator referenced it, I think because they just didn’t recognize the word.

“I pay your salary.” The student lost a lot of credibility with faculty allies when he said this. First of all, it’s rude. Professors are not private tutors, they do not work for tips, and bullying one’s professors is not going to yield students a better education. Second, it’s probably factually incorrect. Graduate…

Uh, your point? I have no interest in litigating FEMEN’s goals (interesting, largely worthwhile), methods (naked protesting, apparently), or training (you seem to know more than I do). My point is that the Jezebel writer was derelict in not doing a simple google search of the word “FEMEN” to provide relevant context…

Sorry, not following your point. Are you saying *I’m* a member of the tinfoil hat brigade because I suggested that the writer of this piece at least acknowledge the protestor’s reference (twice, once on both arms) to FEMEN? Or that FEMEN is the tinfoil hat brigade? I guess either way I disagree with you.

FEMEN. Y’all need to research FEMEN. It’s written on her arms, for crying out loud. https://femen.org/about-us/

https://femen.org/about-us/ The word “FEMEN” is on her arms. That’s the group.

Not just interesting, but supremely relevant to understanding the woman’s mode of protesting. This was really lazy “journalism” on Jezebel’s part.

You didn’t notice the invocation of “FEMEN” on her arms? Did you just think that was someone’s last name?? “Jezebel will have extensive coverage as the trial unfolds.” Um, I hope you work a little harder to understand your subjects as you continue to cover the trial.

I really don’t understand why you were so sullen & hostile about this. The egg roll has been conducted that way for years, and it has nothing to do with the Trump administration. You’re the one who didn’t check the forecast and dress appropriately. I guess I’m just old, because all this essay did was make me not like…

For purely academic reasons, you might look into the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a 1960s radical theater company that prompted riots with its reboot of a 19th century minstrel show.  http://www.sfmt.org/company/archives/minstrel/minstrel.php

A house on the Hill for $1000/mo? Did he have 2 roommates??? I’m on the other side of the river, where a 2BR/1BA house is $1800-2000/mo., not walking distance to metro.

I don’t know why this is so hard to imagine, given Roseanne’s own support for Trump. I think it was a smart choice for the character. A LOT of Americans voted for the man, against their own values and interests, in the hope that he would “shake things up” or “bring the jobs back” to depressed areas like small-town…

It’s kind of a cop-out to just assign Chalke to a different role—I wish they’d done something really weird and had both Goranson and Chalke alternate the role with no explanation or discernible pattern a la Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire. Feels like a missed opportunity.

The broader context of this story is the failure of Kansas’ regulatory apparatus. It’s mentioned in the Star story briefly:

That poor kid... :(