The thing is that this has been true for a long time. Thinking that liberal arts degrees are impractical is received wisdom that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. This claim is only "counterintuitive" if you have bad intuition about higher ed, and, accidentally and on purpose, most people do.

Norm Nation goes from chanting “SANDWICH! SANDWICH!” to “NORM FOR PRESIDENT!”

Another @amandamull.bsky.social banger, that feeling when you think you get luxury for a frugal price, it’s like you honor your ancestors with that deal.

I agree that people shouldn't be negatively polarized into treating the Catholic Church as a net good in the world but if you're pretending it's not funny that the pope saying "bombing schools is bad" made our government invent Anglicanism from first principles, you're just a buzzkill

She could’ve run away with it, done a Zohran-lite without having to deliver anything while riding that momentum into the ‘28 primaries.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

“Tom Steyer Will Back That Azz Up to Sacramento”

If you need proof that America is in decline, just tune into “Strip Law” on Net Flicks (latest fad) by some Sicko named Cullen Crawford. Perry Mason and other Innocent TV Lawyers weep. @hellocullen.bsky.social

Hey @pftompkins.bsky.social, when did @scottaukerman.bsky.social start Rapaportmaxxing?

He drinks the nerve gas thinking it is Ecto Cooler.

I feel like the great lesson of the Civil War is that amateur armies of shopkeepers, farm laborers, and clerks can, when well armed and supplied, beat the absolute piss out of a chivalry-obsessed gentry class and their allies among the smallholders

I have rewatched Strip Law 3 times, from Lawbert to the Nevada Dates huge congrats to @hellocullen.bsky.social for creating this masterpiece. Need @diedrichbader.bsky.social in the Season 2 voice cast because both of you know The Drew Carey Show theme is the ultimate party montage music.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Get BARTmogged, gasmaxxers!!

One of the best books from the “Women and Social Movements” seminar in college. I forget who but to quote a famous comedian, “White women are in on the heist, they are just mad about their cut.” The WKKK died because the KKK wouldn’t let them control their own dues/budgets, rare patriarchy W.

Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

I haven't seen the Italians beat up on the Americans this badly since Kasserine Pass

It’s possible, they take celebratory espresso shots!

Saw a disassembled plastic race car bed on the side of the road in front of a house today. Congratulations on the nuptials, buddy.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

The thing about the Totenkopf I haven’t heard yet is that it was the insignia on the hats of the Einsatgruppen! The people who followed the Nazi advances and murdered Jews and others in person pre final solution! But of course Platner supporters are too lazy to do any research.

iannucci could do basically any vonnegut novel

New Past Lives: Matilda McCrear, the Clotilda, and the Last Survivors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In July of 1860, the last slave ship arrived in Mobile Bay, carrying 103 captives who would be the last enslaved people trafficked to the United States. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

i've always wondered what the job of newspaper columnist is like, so, for this month's WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, i decided to go ask a newspaper columnist about it. @jamellebouie.net was kind enough to make time to talk to me about his work, and i'm really pleased to share it with you.

I wrote about Alysa Liu and how refreshing it is to see an athlete who enjoys what they do as an art and self-expression in the landscape of sports where being a great athlete is always presented as a miserable and joyless exercise flaminghydra.com/issue-509/?a...

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

This is an excellent piece.

I can confirm

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

When I was listening to @mikeduncan.bsky.social’s Revolutions on Russia I kept thinking of that UNO meme “Tsar Nicholas II, don’t be a stupid asshole or draw 20 cards,” and there is Nicky with the whole deck in his hand.

i hate that we talk about "the union army" in the civil war. it was the army of the united states of america against an evil and illegal pro-slavery band of terrorists. the confederacy was illegitimate from top to bottom.

Fernando Mendoza's public communication ability stuns me every time he does a postgame interview

decided to bring this to life

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

I am sure there are some older buyers ready to pounce.

Not to go all Rob Lowe here but three week 18 games for division titles is awesome

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Nor do they exhibit items in a particular order to create a narrative, wish they would!

I have thought recently about what media I would recommend to a young man these days and I am so glad I just read @zeets.bsky.social’s “The Minotaur at Calle Lanza.” There is so much in Zito’s story, struggles, and insights I think young men can learn from today.

Forget which college football coach is married to a Kelsey, but just thought of @amandamull.bsky.social wondering if she is the oldest Kelsey when I learned the BYU coach is married to a Timberly.

😭 RIP Claude - No trip to the Academy of Sciences was complete until I saw you.

When I was a kid my Dad took me to Notre Dame vs BC in South Bend, after church after the game we saw a group of guys skipping crushed beer cans off the ground trying to to make it through blowup uprights and I thought, “I can’t wait to go to college.”

Physics ain't played nobody. History has a better strength of resume imho

This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.