If you forget your jury identification card, and can’t remember the judge’s name, or the name of the case, or the names of anyone involved in the case, or exactly what time you were supposed to arrive (you guesstimated), it will be difficult but unfortunately not impossible for you to enter the building and complete…

I’m not sure if this is parodic, as other posters have mentioned but...you do realize that you are describing a very, very small small percentage of circumstances today (in fact I’d call it about 1%) that launch people into university and academic success, right?

Fun fact: Pedantic post is pedantic.

I think then they “probably” would be trumpeting the existence of these programs from the rooftops since the Sandberg-Zuckerberg types tend to relentlessly self-promote and congratulate.

It would cost these companies an infinitesimal amount of their operating budgets to recruit (from high schools) and fully fund tuitions and living expenses for minority candidates, and then from that group, once people had finally been able to get to the starting line that every white tech bro is born at, could fund…

I think that’s an interesting but perhaps optimistic view of the job market even for educated professionals with advanced degrees. In academia, the upper echelons of tech, the “culture industry’ (i.e. upper level curatorial positions in museums, permanent chairs in symphony orchestras, etc.) you’re going to take any…

FWIW I don’t think you should part with the unedited images. You’ve done more than enough providing what is normally a very costly service for free. Do you have professional portfolio, web presence, etc.? Then you are in fact already a professional, and you have a brand to cultivate and control at this point. Without…

Too bad none of the servers were Latinas; then they could’ve been dismissed for their annoying diction instead.

I’m not saying she should be excused (except from her job obviously) for anything she has said or done. In fact I think there is a good argument to be made that she has established a pattern of calling for societal disruption, the “crying fire in a crowded theater” example of an abuse of the First Amendment.

I agree with you about the always present, and now seemingly increasing tolerance for, casual and public anti-Semitism. And it is surprising where it crops up and is accepted...like, I find mondoweiss to sometimes be more reasonable in writing and comments moderation than Chronicle.com. As an academic I’m on the side,…

Maybe asking writers in prominent positions to quell the self-loathing long enough not to use, even hipsterishly, self-descriptions like “Jewess.” This term is verboten via all reputable academic and journalism style guides and would never appear, even in self-mockery, in any legitimate news source.

The track (which Ciara describes as “unreal”) was originally performed by The Rolling Stones (whom Ciara describes as “one of music’s Greatest Bands), and was recorded for a Vin Diesel movie called The Last Witch Hunter (which Ciara describes as “unreal”).

Just as the premise of this article suggests, sometimes you can just tell when something is going to fail hard...and I agree this is one of those cases.

I watched the whole thing, out of a strange sort of fascination. I’ve been unable to watch Duchovny as a protagonist since Californication and all the sex addiction stuff, so him walking through this underwritten, corny part (the guitar playing!) seemed appropriate enough. Gethin Anthony is a truly creepy and…

Oh, wow, I had forgotten about that one, but yes! Such a great cast, all around. There are numerous good movies like that, with good performances, which for some reason just don’t “catch” in a big way. Rosamund Pike rattled around for years in pretty good movies like Made in Dagenham and An Education before the…

She has five films coming out between this year and next. Some of her roles have (Powder Blue, Rules of Attraction) have been offbeat and interesting. Biel is also only 33; if she wants to go back to school and get a Phd in theater studies or math, or take up marathon running, volunteer with the Red Cross or whatever.…

In the German academic system, philology includes the broader study of linguistics (in fact what is usually called the “linguistics” department in the Anglophone system), operating under the assumption that modern languages emanate from ancient languages. So while to become a habilitated Doc. Phil. philologist you…

English is not my first language, and I worked really really hard to learn it, because it isn’t my second or third language either, and I didn’t began to study it in earnest until I realised I was going to be expected to write articles for Anglophone publications. Then, as an adult acquirer, I took it very seriously,…

More like your track record of exhorting other posters to simply dismiss comments they do not like or disagree with, sweet neoliberal reliance on NPR as a news source, “knowledgeable” comments on politics and sports, and use of the word literally, which proved your commanding mastery of one language used on a public…

It’s not gossip. Merlan doubled down on the Rolling Stone UVA story when legitimate news reporters and researchers (so, not MRA truthers), raised questions about the story (and by legitimate I mean the Poynter Institute, CJR, and so on). Merlan insisted long past the point where it was clear that something was…