This is great, but also Calvin Ball!

Watching scenery from the Olympics makes me want to jump on a plane to Milan and then curl up in front of a fire in a cute apartment there and watch events on TV.

Still sad that I'll likely never get my wish of a fully electric 2-door Wrangler.

Someone needs to get me a ticket to the next national prayer breakfast so I can laugh inappropriately loud at all the right moments.

Cheers this morning not to Lindsey Vaughn but to all the young pups with two healthy knees who will try with all their might but still finish behind her. I see you. 🥂🍻

I teach this every semester.

No one can rob me of my apes

The crying over the 2020 election being stolen might hit different if everyone hadn’t already lived through the 2024 election which apparently was perfect.

The guy taking professional head shots today at the job fair was a dead-ringer for Larry David. It was hilarious.

Is there a good Olympics app?

I love this billboard so much. You know Coke was like “we can make this generic image and slap various national flags and colors on it and no one will ever notice” and then someone goes and does this

Not Fallout referencing Myers-Briggs as a scientific construct. ARGH!

The America we were taught about in school wasn’t real, but I want it to be and so do 200 million of my friends

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

I get this, but here's where I'm at: Trump & Vance are the worst of us. America is bigger than them, and they win if we let them define us. Team USA is the best of us. It's filled with Americans MAGA hates—first-generation + immigrants, LGBTQ+ athletes, people of color—& I'm gonna root for them.

There's rising to the moment and then there's this - surpassing the moment with bravery and integrity. Amen and men.

Haha. Your boy is on parking lot duty this morning at our career fair and YEP IT’S SNOWING IN ATLANTA AGAIN.

Holy crap! It’s Timothée Chalamet!

Bummer. Great game on the road. Had a shot to tie at the end and just missed. This Aggie team still has a lot of fight left in them.

Ughhhhh. Bama hits a circus shot to basically win the game.

This A&M-Bama game is really good btw.

I’m going to be spending a lot of time in classrooms over the next two months so I thought it’d be fun to collect one image from each visit and write a short blurb about something good happening in the schools I visit.

Did my Star Wars folks here already talk about this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonA...

Also universities.

This morning at the dad's breakfast at the elementary school a guy told the whole room that he's a lifelong Bama fan but "they've been down bad for a long time now" and it took all I had not to shout him down. That's stolen trauma, sir. You made the playoff THIS YEAR. 5 nattys since 2010!

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Being frustrated at my son for his needing help on a math assignment he should have done earlier but catching myself mid-scowl to realize this is the job and I actually love the job.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

I have the best colleagues. All day they've been dropping by the office and sending me messages talking me off all the academic career ledges. ❤️

Listening to Melinda French Gates yesterday and she was asked what she learned about philanthropy that was surprising. Paraphrasing, but she said she was surprised at how slowly philanthropy made change compared to more broad policy and govt-led efforts.

Basically, that philanthropic efforts can crack open a door or fill a temporary gap, but then the baton has to be handed to someone who can make permanent change to eliminate the underlying need or situation.

Re-upping this to say that instead of the sneeze-yell, someone in the press pool could just blow a huge raspberry whenever the president starts to answer a question. Am I immature? Of course, but you're lying if you said that wouldn't be hilarious.

Home of the free, because of the brave little toaster

What I thought was an original and funny idea crossed my brain on the way to work this morning and I should have known better

Sending this to Greg Abbott in response to his questioning why school officials often accompany students who are peacefully exercising their first amendment rights. (It's to protect them from MAGA crazies, Greg.)

Time to re-up my regular request of NBC to bring the Brisco County Jr theme out of retirement for their Olympics coverage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--2F...

This looks incredible.

No way! Spike Lee made a movie inspired by the events of the Sandia Peak Tram New Year's fiasco. www.cnn.com/2022/01/01/u...

Y’all are really the best and I appreciate each of you so much. Things will be fine-ish now and better later. My work will just look a lot different than I wanted and I’m sad about that at the moment.

“Too punk rock to give your old man a hug?” 🥰😭

Huh. Must have missed this, but the Spiderverse movies are on Disney plus now.

My son went and got a shoe out of my closet and made me a custom keychain this afternoon. Pretty sweet!

Refuge Coffee over in Clarkston or Mint Coffee in Tucker ❤️

Oh no thank you!

There it is. Used it to brag on election security (good!) but also urge adoption of more restrictive measures (bad!). www.ajc.com/politics/202...

I need y'all to know that swan cygnets (chicks) are often brown.