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Dispensing advice, tough love, and sarcasm to college students and venerable colleagues alike.
"At that time merchants controlled trade." Yes, dear student. That is the DEFINITION of a merchant.
I hate to break it to everyone, but Fox has a dozen more to replace him with.
The media records former president Donald J. Trump's arrival in New York City.
Oh yes, dear student. Tell me more about Carl Marks.
The author of the latest NYT piece about how conservatives are being silenced is simply billed as a senior from Princeton. Not disclosed:
President of the College Republicans, active in conservative causes since his early teens, publisher of a conservative newsletter, head of the conservative debate society, writer for Campus Reform, a Koch-funded entity that attacks faculty.
Dear Provost: No, I'm not going to schedule this committee meeting over Spring Break because it's more convenient for you. Too bad. #academia

I still remember when we caught Scott Adams red-handed around 2011 making fake accounts on MetaFilter to pump himself up, acting like he was a fan posting random fawning comments. I sent a link to Nick Denton and he published it all on Gawker, then it came out Scott had more sockpuppet accounts on reddit doing the same thing, arguing in favor of Scott Adams and his brilliance.

He's always been an awful human being.

I am a professor and I *wish* I had time to grade. Instead I seem to spend all my time in committee meetings with asshats. #academia
uhhhh "Animals are falling sick and dying near the site of a hellish Ohio train derailment last Friday which released toxic chemicals into the air, according to reports — sparking fears of the potential health impacts the crash could have on humans." https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/animals-sick-dying-near-east-palestine-ohio-train-crash/
Animals falling sick, dying near hellish Ohio train derailment site

Taylor Holzer, owner of a dairy farm just outside the evacuation zone, has said that several foxes he keeps on his property have become mortally ill.

New York Post
Why is everyone talking about the stupid balloon, when Ohio is having probably the worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl right now as a result of the train industry understaffing their trains