The best part about grading final exams is you can quit at 2pm with the earned conviction that you put in a full day's work.

I asked my Cultural Theory students which reading from the syllabus they would assign to family & friends. Winner BY FAR was How to do Nothing by @jennitaur.bsky.social www.shareable.net/how-to-do-no...

Just stumbled across a 2005 article from Vaccine Denier in Chief warning against the GOP misinformation machine archive.vanityfair.com/article/shar...

1995: you'll never believe what they're saying on AM radio 2005: you'll never believe what they're saying on Fox News 2015: you'll never believe what they're saying on Facebook 2025: you'll never believe what they're saying on X

new 'best running song' found www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_GF...

The correct way to respond to a student that overslept and missed the final exam is to say “Don’t worry, you’ll have nightmares about this for the rest of your life” and then offer to let them take a makeup.

Woke up remembering the day we all laughed at "dotard" .

wait until "the mafia" hears about this

Local journalism still alive in Buffalo.

An app that lets you change the lyrics on an original recording so you can make Sabbath's I Am Iron Man come out Happy Mother's Day

Had reason to look up the NYTimes review of an old Stephen King book ("Needful Things") and was reminded that there was a time when King was NOT widely recognized as a national treasure.

Fascism. Capitalism. Structural racism. Intersectionality. Gender essentialism. Gobbledygook or normal people talk?

According to FB Josh AIlen has had quite a week!

I just paid the extra buck for organic lettuce and came home to see my neighbor literally blowing insecticide into the air with a leaf blower.

Last long run before the Buffalo half marathon

What truly awful NBA game can I watch tonight ?

Perhaps Mad Magazine would like to buy it?

Shame he couldn't maintain his trademark sober analysis

As a legal philosophy originalism seems ridiculous when you first hear about it but when somebody seriously defends it you realize its actually absurd.

Looking forward to think pieces on "nadir TV"

Mad Men in 2026

Bless his simple, simple heart.

Legit surprised that it's a word

I just learned about the upcoming "Enhanced Games" it's great to see an SNL parody come to life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG...

I'll do all sorts of things defend democracy. But staying up 'til 11pm to watch a talk show is not one of them.

I've spent 20 years explaining to students that you can't be both libertarian and fascist and then along comes Palantir.

The naive optimism of Buffalo in late April.

Who the hell is Michael Tracey?

Every Cavs loss is the universe saying no to Harden's beard.

I've read this twice and best I can tell, the answer is "Because I want to and by the way I got a C in first year composition." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o...

Props to the student who gave a good summary of "Down Girl" before comparing it to "Up Dog" (in hopes of getting me to say "What's up, dog?")

Another day of 100 posts telling me not to read something* I never thought to read. *TC Williams column.

Tillis neglected to say "no take backs" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

My students say the algorithm knows them pretty well but it wants me to join LinkedIn so I can follow Tim Tebow

After one episode Beef II: Another Beef seems promising.

Keeping my eyes on the prize by checking which jam bands from the 1990s are making the right political statements in 2026.

On the bright side, Roberts and Thomas finally laid the idea of "strict constructionism" to rest.

Trying to imagine being John Roberts and not knowing I have to resign www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

When your kid goes on a school trip and you decide to take a drive and see what kind of last minute Broadway tix you can score

I see Boba Fett and Falcon, but who else is here?

the artemis II stuff was a lot of fun but as a regional supervisor of the misery engine that turns doomscrolling into green energy i'm glad it's over. we're down 44% from this time YoY for Q2

all these people acting in a deliberate and coordinated manner to bring people back from space and my department can't even agree on a time to hold a meeting.

there's nothing like an afternoon talking to county clerks, notaries, and lawyers to remind you that property is really a matter of faith.

The goddamn decency on display in Jury Duty: Corporate Retreat might be the salve you need this week.

A hallucinated peace deal really was the only possible outcome.

Internet: "Geno Auriemma should be ashamed of himself!" Geno Auriemma: "I am ashamed of myself." On to the finals.

Say what you will, Rooster nails the academic plight of using a permanent marker on a dry erase board

New piece? I feel like I've been reading this headline weekly since 2015.

Wanted: CNN screen designer. Qualifications: above average at Tetris.

Turns out voters, like authors, don't get to determine the meaning of their texts www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits...