Beautiful Xmas message from Woodlawn Baptist Church pastor in Baton Rouge, LA (NYT, today):
“I would not knowingly extend communion to an illegal immigrant who is visiting our church. That person would be in sin by being in this country illegally. . . They should absolutely deport themselves."
I bet the Dodgers have gold-plated bathrooms.
I know Otani had a decent game last night, but you should have seen my game last week in my seminar class; nothing like it in history. Threw a shutout (all questions asked were strikeouts, students whiffed on all responses), hit two homers (guest lecturer spoke, then let class out early).
Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
A reflection on history and freedom. "Histories can be revised; rights revoked."
time.com/7325167/supr...
Please read and share!
Thanks to Allie Lopez and Made By History for working with me on this.
On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning the new Fugitive Slave Law as “cruel and unjust” and directing the city's police “not to render any assistance for the arrest of fugitive slaves.”
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...
www.american-religion.org/back-pages/r... Old Man Yells at Cloud . . . err, Senior Scholar reflects on his first book.
Also: agree with Confederacy of Dunces
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Confidence Man.
Classics, albeit in the dark humor mode!
Also, final chapter of Ulysses is for many pages completely hilarious, didn't get that until I heard the audio book version.
I hereby nominate myself.
always look on the bright side of life
All Faculty/Staff email today:
"Are you tasked with planning how your organization/department will get back to doing business as normal after an emergency?"
Why yes! But we're not in the "after" part yet, we're still in Year One of the ongoing emergency. Can I get back to you in 3 years pls?
that clocks the amount of time I am secretly researching this week's fantasy football lineup and answering emails while discussions are ongoing about whether or not we should or should not have a college newsletter, and how we are preparing for upcoming "quality assurance" review
Stolen from facebook: image conveying my contribution and level of engagement this year so far in Chairs and Directors meetings.
A net loss for the US in our open.
The NFL game in Sao Paolo hasn't even started yet but I'm calling it: just move the entire league to Brazil, this is so much better than our boring-ass broadcasts. Saxophone-bass jazz-tinged Star-Spangled Banner almost managed to revive that dead corpse of a tune. Sidebar commentators hilarious.
So actually RFK Jr destroying the public health system in America was in fact on my bingo card for 2025 #shockedshocked
all-star game
That "the professors are the enemy" guy opines on history.
War on Christmas: unconditional surrender by whoever was supposedly waging said war. Costco will have their stuff out by Labor Day.
As a historical theory: FUBAR
Hilarious entry in daily spam messages digest:
mail@hillsdalemail.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Your opinion on the courts needed
Oh yeah, Mr. Hillsdale President, I have opinions.
STFU. You are amazing and have done so much cool stuff and have just barely gotten started.
PUPPY!!
in a word: yes
Is Stephen Douglas behind this?
I have seen the future, and it does not work.
when you've gone to "beyond Randall Stephens' ability to parody it" level, you've reached peak . . . something.
or a John Cougar Mellencamp lick
Barbara Fields and I wrote this five years ago to the day. You can decide whether we were right and if it still holds up. I think so, of course.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
