Went to an extremely fancy restaurant tonight and they gave us these hand towels that expand when wet. Jane and I both assumed they were, like, pallet-cleanser mints (?) and tried to eat them. The server said she had never seen anyone do that before.
some small towns need to have the humility to schedule their Pride events on a low-competition weekday. Not everywhere is big enough to deserve a Saturday in June. Thursday night is good enough sometimes.
Dug in a bit to the references in that report. Given that they make claims about all of the humanities and social sciences, I wanted to see how various disciplines were represented. This is a quick count and I tried to group a source in the field it was published in.
I cannot get my head around this maneuver to self redundancy by some faculty. One’s thinking and originality is the reason that one has taken an intellectual path in life. To just give one’s discernment away for nothing is inexplicable to me.
There is no scholarship problem in the humanities that couldn’t be fixed by transformative investments. Every pathology is downstream of a zero-sum, resource scarcity mentality that has people fighting desperately to cling to the floating wreckage of the humanities shipwreck
years ago when Eudora Welty was living, an Ivy League university contacted me to ask if I thought that Welty was deserving of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the university, and if so would I write a citation on her behalf; I replied, in a letter, that, in my opinion, the university was not worthy of Eudora Welty.
my article's up online now, so that's cool. I'd appreciate if you'd read it, please. thank you. (fair warning, it's kind of a downer.)
https://t.co/TBz0gKRUHV
allow me to go a step further: there is nothing of the cop about a subject-matter expert teaching a skill and subsequently affirming or denying that a given pupil has in fact demonstrated mastery of the skill.
BREAKING: You Won’t Believe What Happened In This Meisner Class! You Won’t Believe What Happened In THIS Meisner Class! YOU Won’t BELIEVE What Happened In This Meisner Class! https://t.co/oVjadmrHap