Seems slow around here. I’m racing to finish a chapter (20, of about 25) in the upcoming MS–so yet another delay in my long planned post on ProPublica’s China-virus debacle. Instead, let’s talk about naming. Actually–about naming disasters. I was today years old when I discovered that the army of treason (aka CSA) had a …
Wingnut Head Explosions In 3…2…1
That obscure outpost of hire higher education just up Massachusetts Avenue from MIT has today made a genuinely major announcement: Harvard University on Thursday named Claudine Gay, dean of the school’s faculty of arts and sciences, as its next president in a historic move that will give the nation’s oldest college its first Black leader. …
The Incredible Shrinking Florida Man (No, Not That One. The Other One)
So it seems that the nation’s felon-in-waiting, the Duck of Mar-a-Lago,* the keeper of the hairpieces, The Former Guy his own self yesterday was to deliver a “major announcement” today. And here it is: Former President Donald Trump unveiled Thursday a “limited edition collection” of NFT trading cards featuring cartoon-like images of himself depicted as …
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The Meadows Texts
Update: the next piece is up. I was just about to write about something that’s bugging me a lot these days–the ProPublica’s terrible, no-good, craptastic piece on the claim that the COVID pandemic got its start as a lab leak, compounded by a tone-deaf and disingenuous defense of the major journalism fails in that work–when news …
My Schaden…It Is Freuded*
This made me smile in every corner of my shriveled, vicious heart: An Arizona-based federal judge has ordered sanctions against the legal team assembled by gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) and another plaintiff in a failed lawsuit against winning opponent Katie Hobbs (D) and other defendants from two Arizona county government boards. The attorneys being …
You Will Thank Me Later
This post is apropos of not much at all. But hey–a little literary fun never hurt anyone, amirite? So here goes: Sunday afternoon I was looking for an off-center way to help my students make the transition into writing longer, more explicitly narrative non-fiction about science–longer and more story-like than straight news. I started poking …
Respite: Fun Science
I’m a terrible front-pager these days, for lots of reasons. (Primarily–waaaaay late on a book MS, and so trying to force myself to write only that until the draft goes to the editors. But also emotional brittleness that has only ramped up through to today, if you know what I mean and I fear you …