Texas AAUP press release: aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-au...

The grand jury one room over indicted a ham sandwich…

ICYMI: Jasmine Crockett absolutely roasts Pam Demon Bondi. Let her cook!

Just got an email offering me, a writing professor, an exam copy of a book on writing instruction and AI. I am more likely to rip my heart out of my chest and take a bite than use such a book.

The only TV show more rigidly constructed for internal variation than Phineas & Ferb is Rumpole of the Bailey.

The Superb Owl is fine and all, but we have pretty good owls at home.

I use this place as a heat sink, mostly. Excess thought-energy goes here where it might be of actual use.

The Guardian has a story entitled, “Trump’s toxic, racist video surpasses previous levels of debasement” and I’m like, where is this fine-tuned scale to which you refer? Any scale sank beneath the sludge over a decade ago.

There is a genre of academic journal article that I call ‘gaze upon my idiosyncratic pedagogy and despair,’ and surprisingly enough, I think it has the same quality rate as all the more formal genres.

I have nothing good to say about this.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

I walked into a Guitar Center for the first time in five years or so. Sort of like a dark-themed CVS now. I was looking for two things - a 12-string and a Rick. They didn’t have any of either.

John Brown was executed for a raid that would have made him a Union war hero if done two years later. He became one anyway. The colonel who caught him, Lee, did almost exactly the reverse.

The next Starfleet Academy debate should be either Who Mourns for Adonis? or Is There In Truth No Beauty?

MAJOR UPSET ALERT: Democrat Taylor Rehmet has just been projected the winner of the Texas SD9 special election — flipping a district that went Trump +17 and hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1991. Trump personally endorsed Leigh Wambsganss and spent days hyping this race… and still lost.

Every year, I have to write an annual report for my chair that details everything I did in the last year. It usually takes a full day to assemble into a bookmarked PDF of several hundred pages. I have done this 17 times. It has not gotten any more fun.

The fourth episode of Starfleet Academy was as good as TNG’s The Measure of a Man. Also, I am not a Klingon.

Texas A&M claims it has “seamlessly completed” its Spring 2026 course review. That statement is false. Multiple courses addressing race, gender, and sexuality are still under review with faculty facing pressured to censor well into the semester. Texans deserve the truth, not spin.

If you haven’t seen, or rewatched Babylon 5, it is very seriously, the most relevant televised sci-fi show in history right now. In particular, season 4.

As a friendly reminder, the peer-reviewed journal TCSJ (Technical Communication & Social Justice) is always open for submissions. We’re starting our fourth year.

Texas A&M ends women and gender studies, modifies hundreds of courses in race, gender ban www.statesman.com/news/houston...

Melissa McCoul was a senior lecturer in the English department at Texas A&M University, where she taught contemporary children’s literature. She was terminated from her position without due process after a student filmed a complaint about in-class discussions of gender. Listen to her story.

Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.

My sons got cigar box kit guitars for Xmas. This is the license plate one from CB Gitty. Not a hard assemble, though you’ll need clamps. Came a Mississippi plate, but that’s not where they’re from.

CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

This would be an opportune time for some proto-Sherlock to briefly glance at these ICE videos and point out the retired sergeant of Marines and so on.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

Trying Fallout: London again. It was a buggy mess two years ago. I am happy to report it is more stable now. I have only had to use the console once.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti: "This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE." Full statement:

“Alright, back to work, this is cutting into profit margins, people.”

They can be charged in MN… if MN has names.

Anyway, watch Andor

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

The Rubik’s side quest continues. My 3x3 time got to a minute so I started on 4x4s and solved one for the first time last week. The my son immediately handed me a 5x5. Goddammit.

Bovino is lying

If two people are playing a competitive game and one is willing to cheat without limit and the other not at all, the non-cheating player will only be able to win if they play perfectly, but maybe not even then. Apply this idea to anything you’d like.

Light storm prep today. Tested the generator, wrapped the pipes, stock necessities. Houston’s grid is shaky. We’ll lose power sometime next week.

The censorship at Texas A&M is out of control. Classes have been cancelled & professors are being retaliated against for speaking out. It’s time to stand up. Join the TAMU community to rally next Thursday! Aggies for Academic Freedom! @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

The Chronicle of Higher Education is paying attention....

I had a sudden urge to watch Star Trek: TMP. Hadn’t seen it since the ‘80s. A frustrated bureaucrat, a cranky doctor hustled out of his commune, and a logic hermit have danger and mystery revive them. V’ger is awesome, the E is gorgeous, and humanity wins out again… but the uniforms suck.

This is like publicly complaining when the storage unit where you stash all the awesome stuff you've stolen from other people burns down.

The best tradition of Star Trek is in the idea that disability won’t be erased in the future, but accommodated for. So those mad about glasses and deaf people in Starfleet Academy can kinda kick rocks

Our chapter’s letter to the provost protesting the firing of about 20 staff and the closing of offices directly contributing to excellence in undergraduate education. drive.google.com/file/d/1Q42m...

Every time I hear a Sirus XM ad for Optima tax relief, I hope this next one will be a call for Optimus Prime. Who will then… I don’t know. Give the IRS a stern lecture on morals.

Reading about the video footage of MLK in 1950 - I had no idea Morton Enslin was one of MLK’s professors. Holy shit. The fly of the wall of that class.

Hogwarts in Space ain’t a new idea but I’m down with Starfleet Academy so far.

There is no Nobel War Prize.