Jordon Barkalow

CONCUR is a freaking nightmare and I am about one step away from refusing to take university money for any travel related expense

Beer, huge club sandwich, & Foucault while spouse gets her hair done. Good to be out of the house

3.5 hours of snow removal this morning after 2.5 hours last night & I am almost done. Time for a break & some food before finishing things up later this afternoon.

Attacking from the street is great if you can safely get away with it.

Same issue here. Took the top third off with the shovel & broke up the rest so the snow blower could take care of it.

Why are people driving when we got 2-3 feet of snow on the ground? I have seen one plow all day. That’s a pretty good indicator that you should stay inside.

Me: Let me see if I can pour some gasoline on that itty bitty fire in the email to the chairs of humanities and social sciences.
Wife: Are you sure you want to do that? There may be consequences?
Me: True, but they won't be that bad.
Wife (thinking): So much for his future in administration.

Sometimes, you just need to unwind with some rye whiskey after a long day. Added bonus are some kitty cuddles

It’s #caturday snuggles for Ata (black kitty) & Vesta (tortie) this chilly morning

Need to get a light for the snow blower. Hard to see when I have to clear snow at night.

Mine did not & had to shovel everything.

Snow blower would not start so I did it the old fashioned way

On the plus side, it feels good to be sitting in a coffee shops and being somewhat productive.

Sometimes I think the worst part of being sick is not the sickness, but what the medication does to me. Trying to read about Aristotelian political science through a brain fog is not my idea of a good way to spend a morning.

Back at my favorite Providence watering hole reading about The Declaration with a cold beer, classic rock playing in the background, & the sound of billiards. Not a bad way to kill some time.

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Back at the Wild Colonial Tavern in Providence while my wife teaches her first winter session class at RISD. A crisp lager and Danielle Allen’s Our Declaration on the agenda

Finished the final projects for my Honors section of American Govt (proposing 3 amendments to the Constitution & justifying each with course materials). Now, all I have left are rewrites (on Plato's Apology & Crito or Aristotle's Politics) from my Western Political Thought course.

Second observation: thank god they have WiFi! Now that things are silent, I have been grading as we continue to wait to see if our services are needed

Initial observation: listening to religious music in the jury waiting room seems more than a little odd

Doing this jury duty thing instead of being on campus for the last day of classes

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Thanksgiving morning tradition continues with jalapeño & cheddar sausage balls, buttermilk biscuits, & spicy Bloody Maries

Cajun food and zydeco music on our last night in New Orleans

Took this picture this morning of Luna on top of Mr. Turtle. She is wearing the collar to keep her from scratching her face as she suffers from horrible allergies. Hopefully they will get those figured out next month.

There’s never been a more unAmerican president than Trump www.liberalcurrents.com/unfit-to-be-...

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

I had a similar thought and this brought me back to Shklar's work on cruelty. I find her more relevant every day.

Returning from sabbatical I have found it hard to get back into the teaching/grading groove. Turns out, red ink is the cure for my ills.