He’s not leaning right because of Trump. He’s leaning right because he wants to win the 2028 Presidential election.

The entertaining part is that there’s no plausible ABM system that would defend the US without also defending Canada. I realize this is beside the point but I thought I’d mention it.

I subscribe to the Times and as part of that subscription I’d appreciate it if they didn’t punch themselves in the face quite so often.

Heheheh. I appreciate the passive aggressive smack of Jeff Bezos.

Someone noted that Trump thinks it’s always 1979 & that’s the source of some of his weird ideas. When I heard about the Alcatraz thing, I joked to my lovely spouse that it was because Clint Eastwood's “Escape from Alcatraz” came out in 1979. Haha! Welp! www.yahoo.com/news/where-t...

The Times doesn't really know the history of town hall meetings in America, does it? "respectful town-hall conversation Americans venerate" Town hall meetings have often been raucous, loud, intemperate, and generally non-Norman Rockwellish. From www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/n...

Everyone will recognize the musical theater tropes Shmigadoon gets right. I suspect fewer will hear all of the musical riffs on classic showtunes they manage to fit in. Having been in Carousel, Oklahoma, and Music Man (once upon a time), I definitely chuckled.

I like The Pitt fine, i would not oversell it, but this piece makes an interesting argument: better to do a mild innovation on a ‘90s TV formula than a formulaic variation on ‘00s TV innovations newrepublic.com/article/1882...

There go a whole wave of “higher ed death spiral” op-eds. https://www-chronicle-com.proxy.library.cornell.edu/article/wait-freshman-enrollment-actually-increased-last-fall

1. Your students googling something you just said that you're only 98% sure of; 2. Plugging the laptop into the projector when you've forgotten to close your gradebook; 3. Turning the page of an ancient archival document and having it tear in half with a room-silencing noise.

Follow up: Sir, can you name a country the US has not attacked?

What a wonderful story about @edgarmcgregor.bsky.social

The dream of every scholar. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/style/patrick-radden-keefe-new-yorker-writer-j-crew-ad.html

My Amazon delivery photos have turned into art.

Richard Overy, who was to deliver the Marshall lecture this afternoon, has had his flight diverted by illness on board. @milhistlee.bsky.social will instead give a paper on The Cutting Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 #AHA25

Guys, C-SPAN is momentarily in a state of lawless anarchy.

I read an end of year "useful ideas" list which included Dawkins' Law ("intrinsically simpler" disciplines use artificially dense jargon to hide their simplicity). Physics was celebrated for using "simple terms when possible," by contrast with Judith Butler in all her postmodern glory.

Join us in April 2025 for the 1st of 3 events funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social via @sshmedicine.bsky.social The first being hosted by the Uni of Birmingham (UK) and also supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social A keynote by Brian K. Feltman of @mhptpodcast.bsky.social #milwelfhist #WW1 #FWW

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Jimmy Carter was an interesting combination. A great man and a terrible President. Maybe those two things are related. RIP Lt. Carter

Headline of the Year contest starts tomorrow. Here are the winners from previous contests:

Took my military history class from Cornell in Washington to the Air and Space museum at Udvar Hazy. Lots of great things, including the space shuttle.

Oof. Boeing not in a good place. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/saving-boeing-is-the-hardest-job-and-biggest-opportunity-in-business/ (Edited 11:48 AM via @skeetsapp.com)

Quoted in the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Retreating soldier from failed National Assembly infiltration operation bowing several times in apology to a protester who then thanks him for doing the right thing by following the law and retreating, and shouts after him that we are all peers under democracy 🥹

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

McSweeneys for the win, as always: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...

Recommending an article a few months old on the US vaccine psyop in the Philippines during COVID. Well worth reading. www.reuters.com/investigates...

An always entertaining list: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...