Oh, it pretty much is. I’m guessing a court would see it that way, too.

Why is it necessary that they show up there? The fact it isn’t. If they hadn’t had a crew available, they’d have shown a point on a map and a photo if they had one, maybe would’ve interviewed a cop. But your infotainment does not actually require their turning up to talk about the woman’s murdered kid across the…

Yeah. The question is: could you think of them directly after your child had been murdered and news assholes had turned up across the street from your house to talk cheerfully about it. I’m thinking all kinds of stuff might just wind up flying right out of your mouth.

Say, who was the editor, again?

Some guy named Woodward, too. Man, was he self-absorbed. All these personal journeys in halls of power, def beach memoir territory.

Sure. I mean this is exactly why nobody took David Halberstam seriously. Last I heard he had an Etsy store.

It’s so he can squeeze out some bullshit gun-fondling “libertarian” turd on a thread to do with horrible violent men and the dangers generally of even having anything to do with men. He lives in some godforsaken wheatfield somewhere and passes for bright where he lives.

Fuck off again, asswipe.

Fuck off, asswipe.

I guess it’s a function of no AP history for this gal, but it’s too bad she doesn’t have a mirror handy. That’s the face of hundreds if not thousands of anti-Irish-immigration cartoons.

Please do your homework before you show up in a crowd of knowledgeable women and start telling them what is and isn’t a women’s issue. It isn’t our job to tutor you, and all the info you need is already online in lots of places.

And this, I am not kidding, is a major reason why I will not live with a man again. I don’t go out or get friendly with men who shoot. In a culture awash in guns, it’s very difficult for a man to resist the idea that he’d better have a gun. I don’t want a gun in the house; I sure as hell don’t want a man with a gun in…

Right, I forgot the part about the girlfriends who leave you after two months and you pretend not to notice.

I’d bet that you’ve never had $38K in your own name at one time. I’d also bet that you get help regularly from your parents and that you piss on them for it and tell people how stupid they are. I’d further bet that you regularly live in other people’s houses and/or apartments and try to make it seem to yourself as…

Oh, it’s usual. If someone tells you he teaches ethics, check for your wallet. And anything else you want to hang onto.

You bet your ass it is. What happens to the students of non-better supervisors? What happens to the staff and junior faculty who just have to live with the guy?

What an open, seeing eye looks like: MIT’s reaction to harassment claims against Walter Lewin.

You’d be surprised by how close this is to how things actually work. I take it you don’t work with government budgets. Here’s how things really work:

Um, I do. I’m a single mom and $38K is more than I make most years. If the taxpayers want to throw money away, they can at least throw a couple days’ worth in my direction, where I’m doing some actual work in raising a decent, well-educated human being. You know, doing that work Bernie says he cares so damn much…

No, but you can sure as hell lower the odds.

Just had the tour with my daughter. It’s fantastic, but I will say there’s something a little weirdly culty about it. Maybe it’s just the rah-school thing you get on any tour, I don’t know. Other than that it looks like a dream.