It is, but if there were any honor and sense of responsibility to academia at all, probably half the PhDs would never be awarded.

Possibly. But I can’t imagine that anybody would go to the trouble now to yank her degree, especially if her committee members are retired or have moved on. There are procedures in place, yes, but in academia, the easiest thing to do would be to just let it go, people got other shit to do, especially at Columbia.…

I looked over the evidence online, pretty damned blatant dishonesty...though given her rather disreputable source material in general, I kinda doubt anybody was checking or would’ve been familiar with those authors (and that includes bafflingly innocuous rips from say, a popular book by Kissinger). Some of the cutting…

I just kind of assumed that was the scenario, what you’re describing. The bed’s location and identity seemed incidental, and if there’s something that seems implausible here, it’s that Drumpf went to this highly developed level of forethought in planning out something. That seems unlikely. The rest of it, no.

I’m so sorry to hear that. But depressingly not surprising. If you don’t want to drink, for one, just getting along at ND can be a problem. On top of that, pretty toxic environment for women, all told.

Ex-Domer here. And I’m assuming you’re including antisemites too. But yes, pretty astounding, and you’d expect, somehow, they’d know better.

I’m glad to find some confirmation of this. I got hooked on this fucking show by my sister, because she was a fan, and I was there through the early Roman and Marlena years (Wayne Northrup, of course) through Shane and Kim, Hope and Bo, Patch and Kayla, Marlena and John Black, and then Jack and Jennifer, the last…

Since the rest of the country is getting to know Dan Patrick here, no one will be surprised that he’s an equal-opportunity hater and deeply paranoid about every one who isn’t a good Texan like he is. This is a bit of 2015 audio from The Texas Standard, a statewide public radio program about in-state news. …

I totally get what you are saying, but attacking the bills on economic grounds is the only way that’s going to work for now. I’ve lived in Texas most of my life, and <trumpmode> buh-LEEVE me </trumpmode>, Texans can never be made to give a shit about anything just because it’s the right thing to do. They fucking…

Yes, exactly. That’s one refrain from our pregnancies and the kids’ early years—”Well, how the fuck do they do it in Japan? And what do children eat over there? And aren’t they okay?” And again, caution is wise, but damn, you can drive yourself crazy.

This is about the pithiest thing I’ve read so far about the election. Ultimately, they’re following the Koch brothers’ line—as William F Buckley, of all fucking people, put it, they’re “anarcho-totalitarians” who want to prevent the government from ever helping anybody—and plus it benefits their selfish bullshit.…

Wow. But I thought it was too soft to shape at room temperature...?

I suppose so, and that’s the baffling thing about it. I can’t understand that, really.

Okay, but — here’s the thing — does anyone think of themselves, consciously, as being “born white” as opposed to German, Polish, or Italian? Do white people think of whiteness as a cultural thing that TV shows and movies appeal to? Are white people reminded of their whiteness at certain points during the day, in,…

Totally agree about Black Flag and the Dolls. There’s a lot of music that we don’t have if we don’t have those two bands, especially the former. Hardly matters if the output and lineup was inconsistent...and as I remember seeing on Twitter last year, everyone who has ever been in Black Flag is still alive, oddly…

Completely agree about Chaka Khan. Saw her in concert just the week after Whitney died, and when she went into a monologue about being separated from her children while she was using, Jesus, I’ve never seen or felt anything like that, really.

I hate to be that guy again, but Chicago was inducted last year, and I think Deep Purple was also that year too.

And Magda was also married to George Saunders at one time, I think before Zsa Zsa was. Made for an interesting Thanksgiving later on, I’m sure.

Give it time. From Federalist #59:

I hate to be that guy, but Delany’s still alive. I saw him hanging out at an MLA conference one year. Impressive looking man, apart from his writing, which I love (but not every experiment of his works totally). Motion of Light in Water is a good book.