Magna Carta Holy Grail

At this point in grading, I feel I can determine who used ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude.

I am between the ages of 35-40, and I still cry when Arnold terminates himself at the end of T2: Judgement Day.

I heard this song on the radio this morning and thought Peter Gabriel was making 2010s alternative music. youtu.be/iqI0nabCTDQ?...

“Remember the Maine”-lookin ass

There are times when the classroom can reinvigorate you, and times when the classroom confounds you. Three consecutive classes today left me confounded, reinvigorated, and outright dejected, respectively.

Pre-ordered and eagerly anticipating October.

Pain.

It’s been an awful week, but I think I’ll write some haikus today. Cheers.

The only solution to our current problems is a new Girl Talk album.

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

“Oh, I did the reading. Definitely understood every bit of it, but I’m not going to tell you what it was about.”

Today's class covers the Great Recession, rich folks flaunting their wealth, and everyone's desire to escape the nightmare through partying. Obviously, the pre-class playlist features recession pop anthems. The catch: I have three songs but only time for two. Being an educator is tough.

Un-fucking-believable

I don't want to hear any more "what will the dems do about this" media takes. I want to hear the "why won't any republicans stop this?" media takes, bc just a handful of them could literally do so at any time, if they chose to.

My students looked exhausted, so I decided to let them out early. However, to sign the sign-in sheet they had to come up and tell me something good that happened to them this week. Their faces brightened and were super excited to share. I’ll do this every end-of-week class now.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Nature is healing

🔴España cierra su espacio aéreo a los vuelos de la guerra de Irán

Barry Caldwell Dies: ‘Animaniacs’ & ‘Pinky and the Brain’ Animator Was 68 deadline.com/2026/03/barr...

Today is Parks and Recreation day in my 2000s class. They watch an episode & reflect on what it has to say about politics during Obama’s first term. I told them that at one point NBC aired Community, Parks, The Office, & 30 Rock all in one night, and they were flabbergasted at that lineup.

"The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X's AI) may have been deliberately generated in order to artificially boost the value of companies X and X AI," the Paris prosecutor's office said, confirming a report in Le Monde...on Friday." www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

Franklin, TN?! Affordable?!

I devoured the Game, Set, Match trilogy recently. Damn.

Every historian should teach a Ryan Coogler film! I use Black Panther to teach immigration, the War on Terror, and post-racial America on my 2000s History class.

Just so we are clear, yesterday was high 60s/low 70s with thunderstorms and a tornado watch. Today it snowed and might freeze over tonight

Space & Rocket Center. Every damn year. First time I went (1st grade) I wanted to be an astronaut. Last time I went (8th grade) I wanted to burn space to the ground.

I taught the 2008 election today, and began class by playing a portion of Obama's 2004 DNC speech. Hearing this speech today is both refreshing and disappointing.

I taught the 2008 election today, and began class by playing a portion of Obama's 2004 DNC speech. Hearing this speech today is both refreshing and disappointing.

He should have won for Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, and Wakanda Forever.

I love baseball so much, and it is constantly trying to talk me out of it.

Every news story today has been me doing the Jake Peralta “cool, cool, cool, cool”

“Before joining DOGE, Fox was an associate at the Los Angeles-based private equity firm Nexus Capital.” Of course. Nothing bad ever comes from private equity.

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

Nothing beats thinking you crafted a banger of an essay prompt, only to realize that about 2/3 of the students used the same LLM because everyone's first sentence is exactly the same.

I aspire to write a headline a tenth as good as this someday. Also, fuck the IDF and well done Al Kapranos for taking a stand.

It is an absolute crime that HBO released only the first season of Perry Mason on Blu-ray, not the second.

Is Jared Kushner still solving Middle East peace?

This episode, like many others from The Twilight Zone, is an excellent resource for teaching about the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism in the US History survey. Students really get a lot out of it and (sadly) are well aware of how fast finger-pointing can escalate.

This episode, like many others from The Twilight Zone, is an excellent resource for teaching about the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism in the US History survey. Students really get a lot out of it and (sadly) are well aware of how fast finger-pointing can escalate.

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made" is what comes to mind here.

Hey you can’t assassinate or kidnap leaders of sovereign nations just because they are bad. Feel like this needs to be said

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Having a tough day, but Paddington 2 was on when I got home. Things are starting to look up.

Bill Simmons and The Ringer staff are about to have a seizure

Masterful Troll, TCM.

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

Started off this lovely Monday morning by getting into a fight with the copier. It won.