So basically, they are forcing her into a doping regimen. Absurd.

It gets even better. He actually drove it to his apartment and left it in the parking lot, but he wasn’t charged because no one saw him in the vehicle.

Followed by an appointment to the directorship of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms.

Do you hear yourself talk? The mental gymnastics you have to go through to insist that someone shooting themselves with a gun is not a “gun death” is beyond comprehension. It’s just absurd. Guess what? There is a well-established link between gun ownership and suicide, just as there is a well-established link between…

Guess what? The largest single cause of gun deaths is gun suicides. So no, even when you try to distract from the issue by talking about suicide, you just manage to point out that we have a serious gun problem.

Some time ago, I was in a personal thing that didn’t work out the way I had hoped, and later I was talking to a friend about and I said. “Well, the heart wants what it wants, and the corollary is it doesn’t want what it doesn’t want.” But then I thought, where does that line come from.? Some bad movie? So I looked it…

John Bolton, the man most likely to get us into a nuclear war.

He was in a bind. The NYC field office had had the laptop for a month and did nothing with it. Rudy G., who has friends in the NYC office, then starts claiming that there is something big about to come out - i.e. the laptop, with supposedly damning evidence on HRC. Comey realizes the laptop hasn’t been examined, and…

I got dragged against my will to a Chris Matthews thing the other day. It was him and two other guys - I think 98% of the words were spoken by Matthews. He just wouldn’t let anyone else talk. They must have producers yelling in his earpiece on his show to get him to stop one in a while.

The Tennessean was nice enough to revise their estimate of “hundreds” to thousands for the Nashville march, specifically 10-12K. The tourists we passed seemed pretty surprised to have shown up in time for a protest! Here are some of us on Church Street, beneath a giant face by Tyrone Wright.

Nobody had sex before 1968. True story.

I’m a prof. I know that any fellow prof who puts Ph.D. in their signature is too self-involved. Yeah, it’s the minimum requirement for your job. I kind of figured you had one. And I do my level best to avoid administrators who put in their sig. That’s usually a sign of someone who’s a little (ok a lot) too proud of…

The original Federalists engaged in some seriously duplicitous wordplay. A federalized government is a decentralized government. To play down the fact that the Constitution was, in fact, a power play for a more centralized government, its proponents said “No, we’re Federalists, really” as propaganda. You know, the…

The guiding principle of the Republican party is the deep fear that money will be taken from white people and given to black people.

I was checking Donegan’s Twitter feed earlier. Did a few quick reloads, and her follower count was up each time. She was gaining at least 1-2 per second (this was around 8:00 pm, Central time, 1/10).

Devo - Satisfaction.

Again, tenure does not protect you from being fired for cause.

You can be fired for cause, and you can be laid off for financial reasons or if your program is shut down. Tenure is not the issue here.

The academic job market is very competitive. They would have no problem at all finding not one but a few dozen highly qualified potential replacements. There are enough non=molestors in my profession that there is no need to employ the molesters.

Carmen the Mini Aussie also likes turkey. You know, in case you have some extra.