David Beard

Professor of Rhetoric, UM-Duluth
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[Adam Gussow @AdamGussow]

Joe Biden should do one last unexpected thing—a grace note to his presidency. He should step down for health reasons and allow his VP to become president for the next two months. She would become the first woman to hold the office. Her official portrait would grace the wall.

[David Beard @dbeard]

@BijanBayne @AaronMeyers I think you underestimate the "crabs in a bucket" motivations for voting.

[David Beard @dbeard]

@DimensionsInJen Taylor Swift could be a great doctor with the right costume and reveal and screentime as minimal as the Martin Doctor. I like the performance, but pop her into "Love and Monsters" and let's see what happens.

[David Beard @dbeard]

@Kat__Woods @replyallguy ...because boys' external organs are too delicate for such violent sports, our gender norms would change, regardless of our biology.

[David Beard @dbeard]

@Kat__Woods @replyallguy Aren't there decades of research on gendered communication styles, gendered ethical decisionmaking priorities -- because gender is the social construct, which is sustained through socialization. If, tomorrow, we decided that girls should play football and boys should not...

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@keohaneja https://t.co/qh9nxNwPEo

[David Frum @davidfrum]

"Israel has only existed since 1948."

Which is true, if by "existed" you mean "has been continuously sovereign under its present government."

It's also true that as a country founded in 1948, Israel is older than 134 of the 193 member nations of the United Nations.

[David Beard @dbeard]

@DrMaDMo See, for example: https://t.co/GOhW3994S5

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@DrMaDMo But -- hear me out -- there is a long tradition of work on listening in interpersonal communication that feels very empowering to students. Listening is simultaneously a cultural phenomenon and a cognitive-behavioral process and practice. https://t.co/Ip3978jTnd

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@DrMaDMo A link to this site: https://t.co/Het4VzuJeP

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@Js_Tweats @jwmasek @GovTimWalz But in the case cited, no compelling story would have mattered, yeah -- because the ceiling remained despite maximum information, I think?

[David Beard @dbeard]

@Js_Tweats @justhere4fun87 @GovTimWalz But in this case, the one you have given us, asking earlier would have saved everyone time. $100K was the ceiling, no matter how much info the recruiter has. Everyone could have saved time up front. This seems like inexperienced interviewer and recruiter, alike, to me.

[David Beard @dbeard]

@billhd I mean, kind of? The MBA is not "terminal" in the sense that a PhD is terminal. None of my tenured colleagues in the business school have only an MBA. It's closer to terminal the way an MFA is (and English has invented a "PhD with creative dissertation" to solve that problem).

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@IanLevine I mean, the people who buy these are aging fast. They need to issue them before death.

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@AaronMeyers Me too. Even overpaid a little (it was "a shortbox for XXX," but it turned out, because I love chonky books, it would have been cheaper to buy them individually). But there was a joy in just tossing some low grade DC silver age and some Space Family Robinson in a box.

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@lydrodgerss @mufinthemuffin5 @SonnyWitt104 @TharriesYT I thought you meant the "let it go part," which was too simple.

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@geoffsebesta @TheVallyD I literally see dozens of people watch Tom & Jerry regularly in a restaurant in Minneapolis.

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@NandovMovies Never done a Doctor Who episode, have you?

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@marvwolfman There is a placeholder slide for Disney+ in the US. Just search Doctor Who.

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A word from some friends on telehealth. https://t.co/3bKpzVIOkK