Midterms yesterday before sending the kids off to their break. This means I get to spend the weekend grading, recording, and reporting. My freshmen loved my exam for their course, thought it was a snap. My seniors… not so much. “On a difficulty level of one to ten, that exam was a 20. But you made up for it by having it be twice as long as it should have been.” Since the course involved statistical methods, I even put the infamous Monty Hall question on there- not one of them even tried it. I’m going to have to rethink my teaching approach during the break. They’re not dumb kids but I fear that they have been broken by the Covid panic and never got the basics before coming to the university.
Birthdays today include the ultimate Texan; the unexpected composer of the Israeli national anthem; a guy who put words in Zero Mostel’s mouth; a guy who composed the true theme to Jaws; a baseball player with a fabulous unibrow and a quirky intellect; a guy who got screwed by HUAC worse than Oppenheimer did; an outspoken liberal who wanted to kill Japs and cage up their American descendants; a guy torn between Bob and Lou; a guy whose jaw made him famous; the spiritual father of all of us here; a guy who wrote my favorite American novel; old Splotch himself; a guy who amazingly lives to this day; the Irish Roy Buchanan; a skinny chick who was an underrated drummer; another skinny chick who was damn funny; and a co-author of one of the worst pieces of unconstitutional legislation of my lifetime.
Let’s look at the “news” today:
I was told that Gaza was an open air prison before Hamas started a war. Apparently it was a paradise. Propagandists have trouble with consistency.
He’s right about O’Connor, but this line cracked me up: “We cannot allow the distinguished members of this body to have to suffer walking by such an undistinguished jurist when they enter here in the morning.”
Commie Pope accidently says something true; cancelation coming.
This was useful for culling the herd. Too bad they couldn’t see that.
If you’re going to have a moral panic, nothing is too stupid.
COVID restrictions saved lives, right?
The Old Man remembers when Fleetwood Mac was actually interesting. And in those days, they were cranking out amazing songs like Black Magic Woman and… oh well, this. And surprisingly, Tom Petty does a damn fine cover.
whaddup doh’
whats goody yo
To Rothbard!
*raises cup*
Bleh. The Austrians are blind theoreticians.
As opposed to … ?
Schumpeter maybe. There isn’t a very great track record anywhere in economics.
Duh, and Thomas Sowell – obviously.
One could be friends with Murray for, say, twenty years. And then he could turn on you for no apparent reason and be quiet nasty.
Besides – anarcho-capitalism? That’s as realistic as Marxism.
It’s the express train to feudalism.
Happy Birthday, Kinky Friedman!
Happy Birthday, DeShaun Watson!
LOL. Gov. Kinky would have been a hoot.
I did vote for him while we were there.
Ditto
I was initially reluctant to because he promised to lower the speed limit, but then he said he would lower it from 70 to 69.95, I was ok with that.
How times have changed. Working on the Sabbath used to bring the death penalty.
Only for healing lepers.
By Jehovah, he’s right.
“You keep saying that it’ll go worse for you, you know.”
Yah way out of line.
“Who turned on this light!”
“Where’s a handy Palestinian when you need one to be your Shabbos goy??”
You don’t roll on the Sabbath?
The state government “legalized drugs”, so then the FedGov had to send in its agents to make the experience as painful as possible.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Peter Green’s stuff was excellent but coked up Nicks and Buckingham were the best Fleetwood Mac even if it was kind of bubblegum.
I like “Hold Me”, “I want to be with you everywhere”, and “Tusk”.
I don’t know who wrote them, though.
The Chain, Silver Springs – Stevie was never better than pouring out her personal relationship bitterness.
Christine > Stevie
I didn’t say Stevie was better – just where she was at her best.
Stevie was the better song writer of the two. Christine gets the nod on pure vocal ability but I prefer Stevie’s voice. All my “skippers” on the first two Buckingham-Nick’s era FM albums are Christine songs – Sugar Daddy, Songbird, Oh, Daddy. Slow syrupy piano ballads are songs I tend to skip.
The only non-PG song of theirs I really liked (liked well enough to learn to play it) was Station Man. Of course it was on Kiln House, where Green’s influence was still heavy.
This is all interesting but still just second hand news to me.
This seems early for Spring Break. Miami of OH always carefully timed Spring Break to coincide with St. Patrick’s Day…as if that would prevent some other day from being declared Green Beer Day. (I was never able to partake in Green Beer Day, as invariably I had a midterm scheduled for that morning. When I worked the dish line in the dining hall, I dreaded working breakfast that morning, fearing what I’d find on the trays rolling in on the conveyor belt.)
Spring break for me meant getting a temp job to keep feeding a wife and 2 kids. I doubt many of the Baptist kids took time off to have fun though. Certainly no one would dare drink a beer, someone might see them having fun.
Drinking a beer might lead to dancing!
I have no problem with ascetics. Asceticism on the other hand….
Trying to enforce some widespread movement based on that never goes somewhere good.
Your joke made me chuckle a bit.
“Certainly no one would dare get caught drinking a beer, someone might see them having fun.”
FIFY
*tap tap tap*
Spring Break starts Mar. 30 at the local big college.
I hope to hell that my asshole upstairs neighbor takes advantage. Never coming back would be nice too.
Who knew that a skinny little Asian guy in spectacles would turn out to be a world-class drunk? I’ve lived below drunks before, I know the signs.
Japanese, maybe?
Huh. Maybe. I did only get a quick glance when I had to go up there and ask the 20 or so partiers to knock it off at 2am one night soon after I moved in.
Later on I thought the constant stomping and running around was merely an incredible commitment to showing zero respect for anyone around you, but then the what sounded like dropping bowling balls at 9:30 in the morning cleared it up.
Japanese or “Japanese”?
The Bonfire of the Vanities?
Man In Full, though I *loved* Bonfire. The books were quite similar, but MiF was deeper and more fully realized.
Guess I’ll have to read MiF because I too loved Bonfire.
a guy who wrote my favorite American novel;
Happy birthday Peter Benchley!
(Much) shorter CNN: War happens.
Oh; *that* O’Conor.
Arizona lawmakers recently rejected a state proposal that would commission a statute of the late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conor to sit in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple reports.
Statute?
Damn autocorrect. It was supposed to be “idol”.
“Birthdays today include the ultimate Texan”
Wouldn’t that be the seminal Texan?
But clearly trolling.
First [insert approved interest group] gets a statue no questions asked.
I don’t know what’s surprising about Tom Petty doing a damn fine cover, I’d be surprised if he botched it.
+1
Arguably (and yes, I know who I’m replying to,) TP & the Heartbreakers were the world’s greatest cover band (in addition to their many excellent originals.) See Live at the Fillmore 1997.
I’d go with The Ramones, Tom did do a lot of great covers but I believe they are almost all live concert takes not off his Studio albums where as the Ramones had at least one cover on every album (I think I didn’t check LP I don’t have)
Didn’t see that coming; wow.
Mentioned nowhere in that Oregon story (the part I managed to read anyway) did they mention the possibility of getting real drugs without the fear of it being cut and diluted with dangerous additives.
oops…not meant as a reply.
Decriminalizing did nothing to legalize production/dealing. It would be like saying Prohibition is over because we won’t charge you with possession, but anyone producing alcoholic beverages is going to get fooked over seven ways to Sunday.
Kmele Foster on many occasions has pointed out that because of this one view, commie pope could not be on the board of a woke company in spite of towing the lion on every other issue.
“The authors suggest states should consider creating policies that will limit people’s access to alcohol and increase its price, like by increasing certain taxes on alcohol.”
Christ, what assholes.
Yeah, that’s a shocker. “We need to take more of people’s money for their own good.”
How many times have we heard that horseshit?
*pays $10 for a pack of smokes*
I suggest the authors should consider blowing me.
Change your first name to Heywood? That might help.
Gaza…paradise or not….is irrelevant.
The politics of other states puzzles me.
I thought commie pope was all in on the wokety wokester war on civilization.
Another surprise…I figured the NW marxists would dig in deeper.
AI image production is going to discredit any and all imagery. Real? Not Real? Who knows? Are we sliding into a virtual world where reality no longer matters?
Here is some light reading for all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
Covid restrictions were never intended to save lives.
No matter how educated or civilized we become we still cant shake all of the dust from the cave off of ourselves.
Hey, I know you’re a haul from New Orleans, but Tomb Raider and I will be there this week, just in case you happen to be coming that way…
That is an interesting bit of information. Thank you.
It would be very pleased to meet you. Were I to choose to meet a Glib in person you are near the top of the list. Dont take that personally, 4X20 is an honor to come in second to.
Caution, I might troll the hell out of Tomb Raider.
Let me discuss this with my boss.
It would be awesome if you can. And it was a great privilege (and a lot of fun!) to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Fourscore, so I can’t blame you. Drop me a line at omwc at this domain.
Make it a 3some, come for HH. Meet the other Glibs. Come early a few days or stay late a few days. Good time of the year, no bugs, cool weather. Actually come anytime, our social calendar is totally blank.
The commie pope is under fire in his own church right now for being a fraud and has to say some things he doesn’t believe to appease the flock.
I’m shocked to hear a Pope would bear false witness.
it is quite time for a new schism
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 03/02:
*20/20 words (+3 bonus words)
📖 In the top 1% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 03/02:
*53/53 words (+12 bonus words)
📖 In the top 6% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 160
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/lehigh-county/bethlehem-area/train-derails-into-lehigh-river/article_abba62c2-d892-11ee-af18-b7d2ccf75c96.html
Very local news.
I’m sure climate is what killed that choo choo.
The authors suggest states should consider creating policies that will limit people’s access to alcohol and increase its price, like by increasing certain taxes on alcohol.
“We know that there’s a lot of evidence about what works to prevent excessive drinking, and to reduce alcohol-related harm. But the strategies that we know work are often underused in the US,” said study author Dr. Marissa B. Esser, from CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention. “Making alcohol less accessible and less available by having fewer places that sell it, or spreading out the number of places that are selling alcohol can help to create environments that support people’s choice to drink less.”
What could possibly go wrong?
support people’s choice to drink less
The choice the experts are making because people are too dumb to do so on their own. Isn’t that right Marissa, you insufferable busy-body?
There’s been a trend to opening “sober bars” for people. Not my interest at all, and I don’t really see the point, but they seem to have about the same turnover as most other new restaurants and the like.
I think sober bars are called coffee houses.
This week’s powerline fun
“Scream not working because space make deaf.”
ALOL!
They’re not dumb kids – you are in an excessively charitable mood today
“Hailey Bieber’s sister Alaia Baldwin ‘accused of throwing used tampon at bartender and assaulting employees at Georgia bar’ as she is arrested following altercation at Savannah bar”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13146259/Hailey-Biebers-sister-Alaia-accused-throwing-tampon-arrested.html
Classy.
i like her piercing eyes
Eyes are the window to the soul – and that one is crazy that runs deep.
Wow, talk about RCF.
What a great family
I’ve yet to see an article about the Oregon decriminalization of hard drugs suggesting that the spike in overdose deaths was at least in part due to addicts in neighboring states moving to Oregon. Even though Oregon’s population center is literally on the border from Washington state.
Has anyone bothered to check if ODs in neighboring states dropped?
I’m interested in well.
It should also be noted that Oregon didn’t just decriminalize drugs. It did way more. It might have too many issues for a good analysis.
I assume the moment/context also matter when the US west coast had a massive ongoing issue with homeless drug addicts. decrim would not solve a lot of other underlying issues
Overdose deaths have risen slightly in Washington state since 2019. I would have to check California’s, but I know it has risen substantially since 2019.
https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/washington-tracking-network-wtn/opioids/unintentional-drug-overdose-data-sudors
“decriminalization” is a half-assed measure. The only way to get rid of fentanyl is to make drugs legal at both the state and federal level, while the devil chases us in snowshoes as pig shit falls from the sky.
With what we have seen so far I have serious doubts that the legalization of hard drugs is possible without putting more people behind bars, or living with streets that look like SF’s, Seattle’s and Portland.
Letting people live on public property is a separate issue.
Legalizing certain drugs would in all likelihood lead to that separate issue becoming a larger one. Would a complete legalization of hard drugs lead to a net increase in Liberty? I would argue it would not.
I don’t see how it how it couldn’t lead to a net increase in liberty.
Also, keep in mind up to around the progressive movement a century ago, there was no such thing as drug laws.
There were also whole sections of town known as opium dens, less broken families and social stigmas that don’t exist today.
The streets would need to be swept constantly and get people into treatment or incarceration.
Poorest Region in the Deep South – Mississippi Delta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXGCe-goCvY
I blame capitalism and climate change.
But it’s shining like the national guitar.
I blame the Triffin’s Dilemma. Just as gold from the New World hollowed out industry in Spain as there was no need for it since you had the money, the US hollowed out its industry with a strong dollar that it could just print.
Red Sea Shocks and the New More Stable Normal
https://warontherocks.com/2024/02/red-sea-shocks-and-the-new-more-stable-normal/
You can’t choke a dead horse. Anyone who has studied geopolitics, particularly in the context of energy, has learned that control over waterways — most notably the Suez Canal — translates into influence, as actors can threaten to disrupt energy supplies. But they also know that leverage is limited: Commerce invariably adjusts to disruptions and markets stabilize around a new normal. The crisis in the Red Sea demonstrates this effect, though in an unexpected way. Months of Houthi attacks on shipping, followed by a significant U.S. and British military response, has done little to move oil prices, while the impact on supply has been negligible. Markets, in effect, shrugged off the Red Sea disruption.
This is indicative of a broader shift. The geopolitics of energy have undergone a transformation, call it “the great de-risking,” brought on by progressive geopolitical shocks and shifts in the sources of supply over the last decade. Risk still exists. But dislocating events, compounded by the shift in oil production from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Mexico, have redrawn the energy map. Energy flows have now been forced into two distinct channels, centered on the Atlantic basin and Indo-Pacific region. These connect markets not just through commercial ties but through geopolitical relationships, improving the resilience of energy connections and, by extension, improving energy security in the midst of an expanding global energy transition.
Well, finally the day off. Gonna make a trip up to Michigan to purchase some things. Pretty much just resume prep for some stuff next week. Have a job fair at the zoo where I’ve applied and a SiL who worked there for about a decade. Hopefully I can get out of this school, babysitting gig fairly ASAP.
Hope all is going as well as it can for y’all.
Good luck. Which zoo?
Here is US versus UK equities over the past ten years, including re-invested dividends.
210–228% returns for US equities, versus 14–24% (!!) returns for UK equities.
https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1763575517398077710
americans are rigging the system and stealing returns from the poor brits.
More like INequities! Am I right? High five !
Will the UK ever recover from American colonialism?
If we colonized them then they’d see better than 14 percent returns over a decade.
Do any of you know if there’s a trick to donating US dollars to a GiveSendGo campaign set up in Canadian dollars? Planning to use a gift card I won, so I can’t go over the balance on the card but I want to use as much of it as possible.
i certainly don’t
Canada isn’t actually a real country. You’ve been had.
Communist group disrupts Timothy Snyder’s lecture, forces evacuation
Demonstrators accused Snyder, a history professor, of “brainwashing” students about communism and called on him to condemn the United States’ support of Israel amid its war against Hamas in Gaza.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/03/01/communist-group-disrupts-timothy-snyders-lecture-forces-evacuation/
we should arrange one of these things for OMWC as a prank.
I’m heartened and delighted that this kind of thing is nearly non-existent here, despite this school being Oberlin East.
must start a branch of the revolutionary communist party there
Communist group? I take it that was faculty and not students.
https://revcom.us/en/revolutionary-communist-party
Maybe if some of the students in these classes start filing complaints or legal action against those who disrupt them, it might force change. Or against the university.
“They’re not dumb kids but I fear that they have been broken by the Covid panic and never got the basics before coming to the university.”
Yeah, definitely a cultural change in the last 5 years or so. Not sure all of it is pandemic related, though some certainly is. I’m building in a lot of student meeting time into my courses these days. I feel like I’m part teacher and part counselor.
Just another cover: Oh Well
That’s very interesting
https://twitter.com/awkwardgoogle/status/1763791345670586601
and also very pointless
Worst Deviled Eggs ever.
an outspoken liberal who wanted to kill Japs and cage up their American descendants
Happy birthday Supreme Court’s first female Justice, Earl Warren!
Now THAT was a RINO.
Women with larger breasts produce less sweet breast milk.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1763923830790037736
news you can use
But win on savory.
This presents interesting questions.
What is high and low? What are the thresholds in size vs. content?
Since no two breasts are the same in shape or size or placement wouldn’t a woman with two different sizes, one falling on either side of large/small have the same content based on systemic estrogen concentration?
So many questions. Perhaps I should do some in-depth research.
“This is scientific research, honey! I swear!”
never forget castro spamming the euro step so much that it made Che Guevara question his commitment to the revolution
https://twitter.com/JoestarJokic/status/1762517503568191865
“Bill Maher ridicules Biden’s age in merciless five-minute monologue – where he jokes that president ‘walks like a toddler with a full diaper’ and pretends to give State of the Union address using a walker”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13148279/Bill-Maher-ridicules-Bidens-age-merciless-five-minute-monologue.html
I don’t think leaning into his age is going to help Biden.
“Antisemitic teens terrorizing Jewish teacher with Hitler jabs, death threats as NYC school refuses to discipline them: ‘I live in fear’: lawsuit
The kids are all reich.
A Brooklyn high school has become a haven for Hitler-loving hooligans who terrorize Jewish teachers and classmates, The Post has learned.
On Oct. 26, just three weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis, 40 to 50 teens marched through Origins HS in Sheepshead Bay waving a Palestinian flag and chanting “Death to Israel!” and “Kill the Jews!” staffers said….
The teen tormentors have so far faced no serious discipline under interim acting principal Dara Kammerman, who has done little beyond contacting parents in an effort to practice “restorative justice,” staffers said.
“She is perpetuating an antisemitic environment and a school of hate,” said Michael Beaudry, campus manager of the Sheepshead Bay building that houses Origins and three other schools. “The students continue these behaviors because they know there won’t be any consequences.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/02/us-news/jewish-teachers-suing-nyc-school-that-wont-discipline-antisemitic-teens-terrorizing-them-on-daily-basis-i-live-in-fear/
“Lenient NYC judge releases unhinged homeless man who randomly struck woman in head: cops”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/02/us-news/judge-releases-deranged-homeless-man-after-attack/
“Judge who let alleged NYC subway cello attacker with 8 priors walk is ex-public defender endorsed by slew of liberals”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/judge-who-let-alleged-nyc-subway-cello-attacker-off-is-recently-elected-ex-public-defender-with-liberal-ties/
“The Bronx Family Court judge who messaged a plaintiff on a swingers dating app has been reassigned, The Post has learned.
Judge Cynthia Lopez was quietly reshuffled from the child protective division to the juvenile delinquency division, just two weeks after The Post exposed her apparent come-on to a woman whose custody case she was adjudicating.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/02/us-news/nyc-judge-who-messaged-plaintiff-on-swingers-app-reassigned/
I’m noticing a trend here.
“Oklahoma school district defends foot and toe sucking video, says ‘students volunteered to participate’
Students are seen in the video lying on their bellies while profusely licking and slobbering on the toes of people sitting down in front of them.
A video that has been described as “highly disturbing” shows students at Deer Creek High School in Edmond, Oklahoma sucking and kissing on people’s toes during a school fundraising event. The school has also defended the activity in a statement. ”
https://thepostmillennial.com/oklahoma-school-district-defends-disturbing-video-showing-students-sucking-classmates-toes-for-charity-fundraiser
WTF?
“Woman Who Sent Photo of Young Girl’s Mutilated Body To 2020 GOP Election Official and Threatened The Life of Her 14-Yr-Old Daughter, FINALLY Receives Sentence—And It’s SHOCKING!
On November 17, 2020, the lives of former Wayne County, MI Chair of the Board of Canvassers Monica Palmer and her family were forever changed after she refused to certify the Detroit election that was, once again, out of balance. What unfolded next is unimaginable. The hatred by Democrats for anyone who challenges the legitimacy or dares to scrutinize elections they’ve won is unmatched….”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/woman-who-sent-photo-young-girls-mutilated-body/
Long read, but what a complete shitshow.