Mayor Faust continues to learn the cost of selling her soul.

The GW Bush era, in fact.

On hold with an Ai generated ripoff of “Tuesday’s Gone” and I’ve never felt so valued as a person.

Thinking today about the administrators I know who never published anything as faculty because they were “too smart for the field”

When Epstein meets Amazon meets ICE meets Quiverfull evangelicals you get next-day adoption on someone else’s trafficked kids.

“Freedom from consequences” is an elite-level status anyone can enjoy without money, so long as the consequences are slow-acting or seemingly distant things like climate change, mesothelioma, cardiovascular disease, the return of smallpox…

Plus $50k/year at Burroughs to end up evil and kinda stupid.

Really getting spooked by the number of Missouri favors rolling in lately. Is this for taking Ed Martin back off his hands?

Lost in the headlines is today’s other major court decision.

History of Capitalism 101

Oh, look. (Not about Lambert specifically. Yet.)

Major grift pipeline reopens in new domestic tax shelter.

Say what you will about the UK but they have been very insistent for a very long time that there are legal limits on the monarchy. It’s kind of their thing.

In short:

Jibes with the idea that the rich and middle classes felt like the pandemic was outrageously disruptive (because they were the ones unused to being disrupted).

Often a middle class professional kid who grew up in a working class area or a smart working class kid who went to a rich school. Guys whose whole identity is based on being the genius outsider no matter their setting. Their egos make them easy dupes. Academia is full of them.

Yes, hoarding wealth to create investment capital destroyed the social fabric and caused constant climate and political disasters But at least we got life-changing tech like The Refrigerator that Narcs on You to the Feds, The Car that Catches Fire and Locks You In, and The Lying Nazi Robot

“Conservatism is whatever bullshit I need to make up to accomplish my career goals” is the thesis of Brooks’s whole career.

“I sat in the back of a crowded town hall with the tech firms’ main lobbyist whispering in my ear. Let me pass on his talking points under the guise of folksy local journalism.” This is the local paper you want me to support?

I worked with Lu Ann a little in grad school so maybe I’m one of the few people who was expecting this.

Higher ed is a bit like the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Its operations are too slow and its benefits too indirect to get anyone to care about its survival but, friends, you are going to miss it when it’s gone.

This question cuts right to the heart of it especially since we’ve been trying for decades to defeat vibes (“the humanities feel like expensive wastes to me”) with data and that doesn’t work. So what’s the story we need?

Racking my brain for any other leadership class in history writing each other en masse thousands of little notes saying “Hey bestie let’s do crime, lol! My townhouse at 7! LY!”

So much so that people assume I must be bad at math because why else would I ever have studied the humanities?

It’s cute until you realize “Who cares? Everything sucks” is also St. Louis’s approach to racial justice, public education, pedestrian safety, and whether billionaires should hunt you for sport.

“Let’s deregulate the economy and create prosperity for all!” really needs to become the “Let’s invade Russia in the winter!” of economic and social history.

Thinking today that one reason colonialism’s structures have persisted for so long is because it relies on a simple, childish desire to want something so badly (like an English-language halftime show) and be told no you can’t have it.

It is a small favor that this man and his passel are too racistly stupid to realize that fascists remain in power by pretending to like their country every once in a while.

May it likewise be undone by a Canadian goose.

I mean this is pretty much me in every Q&A

The last week’s news dump confirms that, if anything, “Glass Onion” was too subtle a satire.

Chopping* wood** to feed*** the fire. *replacing **batteries ***remote-start

“Positioning ourselves in a crowded, competitive landscape” is also what university administrators say before they hack away at their institutions’ core competencies.

Evil and inept—that’s the Missouri way!

Every higher ed leadership org needs to publish their links to those named.

So telling that they got to “conspire with a billionaire pedophile to destroy every democratic institution” as an answer before they got to “be less shitty.”

“Conspiracy theory”=attempt to explain some phenomenon, usually in the most half-baked way “Conspiracy fact”=verifiable evidence from hundreds of people of coordinated effort to cover up the most appalling crimes

Sorry, just rediscovered this banger and I live here now. Forward my mail to 1999. It’s been real.

The ostensible equality of liberalism inspires elite attempts to maintain permanent hierarchies, most of which are so fucking stupid and lame.

The upshot of all this should be that white men are never to be trusted with power again.

My core research interest has always been the insane stories and unrealities that the powerful create in their small personal networks. They generate disaster from the stroke of a pen and tell each other “well done” and none of them can ever spell worth a damn.

Remember, this guy as much as anyone else is the reason you no longer have a philosophy or ethics curriculum at your school.

A leadership class of, by, and for people who only ever watched the first half of Martin Scorsese films.

For the next round of Gen X discourse remember that if you just winked at us and called us too smart for this stuff, we would turn into the biggest suckers for the stupidest self-destructive advertising capitalism ever invented.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Aesthetics Marxism Playwriting History of Jazz Bible for Students of Literature

Wow, it has been a minute since I thought about Patricia Kluge.

Just incredible that like 40% of the GDP is tied up in a resource-intensive technology whose only proven effective use is to make its users dumber and less competent.

Notable that “performative” and “ineffective” were the exact terms leadership-friendly PACs used to attack Cori Bush in the 2024 progressive purge. Every accusation is a confession and all that.

Ardently anti-Ai except for Cara Spencer animations on Facebook. Will absolutely accept those as a use case.

“I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help…. In order to see farmers through these tough times, our administration has committed record amounts of assistance.” —Ronald Reagan, Chicago, 1986