Jump Ball!

Big basketball weekend. I've inherited Michigan from my big sister (who also bequeathed me Tom Brady, so, WINNING!).

And the Lady Huskies have the team and the player to put on a show.

Comments

[ImNotFolly]

I'm sorry.
What sport is this?
Bowling?

[Davod]

Found at pictures of the week.

https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/03/deer-interview-reporter-2021-ammo-shortage.jpg?w=486&ssl=1

[Davod]

The week in pictures.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/03/the-week-in-pictures-iron-cages-edition.php

[Davod]

Another from WIP for space lovers.

https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/03/IMG_4306.jpg?w=401&ssl=1

[GUS]

How is this BIDEN thing working out Tom?
He clearly loves "white" kids, but HISPANICS, not so much. I mean he clearly sniffs and touches white little girls. How's it going so far Tom?

[Narciso]

This canal kerfluffle seems odd.

[JWill]

Go Blue!!!!

[matt - deplore me if you must]

You'll be missing the world canasta championship.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

carryover from last thread:

312 airstrikes killed 27 terrorists? Your tax dollars at work. That works out to @ $2 million per terrorist and/or felafel stand.

[rse]

I just finished Iain Pears' book Arcadia, which was a good diversion. I have had it since it came out in 2015 or so, but never had time to read it. His An Instance at the Fingerpost is one of my all time favorites.

Even apart from e-books, some quarter of college students have been found to bounce around at words instead of reading left to right and line by line. Most are unaware that what they do with print is not reading.

I do find it interesting now that mandated learning standards in K-12 have created 'conceptual frameworks' that essentially dictate how the world is to be perceived and interpreted to what can reliably be used to transform consciousness, suddenly the phonetic nature of reading and the known Science of how to Teach It is suddenly again being taught to teachers.

Having essentially circumscribed what it will mean to KNow, now phonetic reading is desired. After years of hyping Marie Clay's work and spending billions on Reading Recovery which is a poor way to teach reading and hyping Lucy Calkins, suddenly all the Whole Language hype and Blended Reading now gets punted as NOT consistent with the Science of Reading.

It is very sad watching teachers finding it to be news that writing is a human invention and not natural like speech. There was a webinar put on by Amplify about a month ago with thousands of teachers stunned with the revelations that should have known.

[rse]

http://go.info.amplify.com/fy21_elemlitsolutions_sorsymposium_national_sorsymposium_getintouchoption_webinar is the link if anyone wants to watch "the revelations".

It was March 4.

[Narciso]

What corner of the multiverse did we fall into?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/25/oral-roberts-university-basketball-deserve-cancel-culture-golden-knights-column/6994502002/

[henry]

NCAA, where are the Asian players? Stop March Madness Asian Hate!

there are equity issues in this sport. Where are the pygmies?

[Jane]

Lol Henry. I too demand Pygmies.

I have now completed my 8 tasks outlined for today - and didn’t faint. And it’s not yet 1:00. I’m very proud.

Apparently China and Iran have come to a deal. Did Xiden fund it?

[CCGirl]

Reading. My daughter teaches grade 8 and 9 English at a small private day school. Both she and I were surprised that the kids read only four books per year. In the end my daughter said it worked out. Maybe focusing for so long on one book teaches the students to understand all of the content? I have no idea, I’m just brainstorming. Daughter did re-write the 9th grade curriculum to include poetry and short stories that tie in with the book they are studying.

Now the kids are in school on alternate weeks. Daughter teaches in person and online. She says the on-line students pay no attention, and so thinks that the “internet” experience has little of the influence that RSE writes about. I think short-term she maybe correct, but it’s the long-term that RSE is worried about - as are the rest of us. I think daughter is too young to really understand what the problem is, or maybe she has already been influenced? 😳. She still is an avid reader.

Maybe I am making no sense at all! I’m outside finishing up my fence, so I’m just popping in for a break now and then.

[CCGirl]

Rse, I recall thinking when my kids were in elementary school that it was irritating that teachers were sent to seminars about how to teach. Don’t they have their masters in ed? And the school district would always be shelling out huge payments to the consultants. At the time I thought it was simply a money grab, and a union thing, but reading your posts over the last year I understand now how pernicious it all is.

I still think that early reading to children is important, as well as little tv time.

Back to the work camp!

[Manuel Transmission]

Reading: I haven’t picked up a book in 2-3 years. Not that I was a ravenous reader, but after wading through engineering textbooks for years I was pretty much a word by word detail guy, so I had to have a real commitment to a book to invest the time.

On the other hand Mrs MT and I used to read to each other and we often do that now with the better on line essays like Clarice’s Pieces.

We just finished Hillbilly Elegy by the Mrs reading a chapter or two out loud morning or evening. An excellent way to absorb J.D.’s work. As a side note, Bleu, after being exposed to this activity for his first week with us, immediately spots the book being picked up from the nightstand and settles in to hear mom read while he’s stretched out on the headboard behind her head.

[Momto2]

CCGirl - My students will read 16 books this year plus 2 weeks of selected poetry. Our next book will be "Fahrenheit 451" which should lead to a timely discussion.

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

I had a list of things to do this morning but got sidetracked on a couple, because they revealed to me I had OTHER things I needed to deal with first! Very lowering.

I did get all of the laundry done,cleaned up the kitchen, and trimmed all of the dead stuff out of the pots on the porch (something I should have done last fall before my episode interrupted).

I am now going to lie down for a bit and read a couple chapters in a Georgette Heyer novel, not one of Catsmeat's favorites, if I remember correctly.

[Jim Eagle]

I have my Beef Bourguignon in my new slow cooker. About 5 1/2 hours from now it should be perfectly tender for my noodles:)

I am currently reading two books, which I normally do instead of one at a time.

"Drive Your Plow Over the Dead Bones" by Olga Tokarczuk. Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature.

And, "The Strangers Who Came Home: The First Australian Cricket Tour of England", by Jack Lazenby.

I have always felt the key to reading and appreciating books is variety and distance between genre and subjects.

[Jane]

Hey Eagle! I’m making bouef bourgignon tomorrow! Had to get carrots, leeks and onions today and defrost the bouef (Note how mine has a French name probably spelled incorrectly).

Since it will be 90 degrees out, I probably won’t be as good as yours!

[Jane]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/quick-wednesday-biden-taps-kamala-fix-border-friday-kamalas-spokesperson-says-vp-not-border/

That was quick. So I guess no one is in charge of the border!

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

Afterseeing the videos, I think you are right!

[Davod]

When I was in Australia we used a slow cooker a lot because we were out for around 14 hours. The problem was the flavor left the meat, and it was like cardboard, but soup was excellent.

[Davod]

Who said Biden was out of it. He is setting Kamala up with the border gig.

[Davod]

MM2. I admire your work ethic.

[Dave (in MA)]

Ever since I heard about the #StopAsianHate thing, I haven't put anybody in an internment camp.

[CCGirl]

Momto, Daughter attended the local public high school. She, and my other two, had excellent English teachers. They read a lot of books, probably close to fourteen, over various genres, with poetry and short stories. When oldest began teaching she said she was glad she went to the public school. Since then she has changed her opinion. I think she can’t help that, since she works there. And she has made improvements. She’s frustrated now as she gave her notice last Feb. She thought she would be in Paris for a year, and then home to find a new career. So now she is feeling a bit stuck, resentful of the lower private school pay, and frustrated with the entire mask/covid/remote learning mess. She is 25 next month, so she has time:-)

I read “Fahrenheit 451” the summer before she began teaching. It was in her students’ summer reading list. There were many she had not read, so I offered to read a few and discuss them with her. It’s a very topical book these days! Yikes!

[CCGirl]

It was “on.” I feel a need to correct my post to the English teacher!

[anonamom]

momto2 thank you for sharing the article on internet ruining my reading skills.

relinking

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-the-internet-is-making-it-harder-to-read-books-20140408-zqseo.html

[anonamom]

80 and sunshine in piedmont NC!

Go Loyola Chi!

[Buckeye]

Finally had an opportunity to watch a fascinating documentary about the restoration of the Rock Mill on the Hocking River.

In 1824, Mrs. Buckeye’s cousin Christian Morehart built a grist mill that was a game changer for Ohio agriculture. Two previous attempts at the site were less than successful as they couldn’t withstand the flood waters. Prior to this, grain had to be transported to mills in Pennsylvania to be ground.

Christian relied on contacts back in the homeland to import the talent needed to get the job done and the mill was a commercial success that operated for over 100 years.

About two decades ago, locals became interested in the possibility of restoring the mill.

This documentary describes that restoration process.

https://youtu.be/Q1QXvh1zI94

As painstaking as this effort was, imagine doing it 200 years ago with no power tools:)

[henry]

Now it is twerking.

@ntsbfh

Breaking: reports are that the stern of the #EVERGIVEN is free and beginning to move. Eleven tows currently on site, 4 more just moments away. @MollyJongFast

https://twitter.com/ntsbfh/status/1375889204736065538?s=21

[Dave (in MA)]

https://istheshipstillstuck.com/

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! If I don't have a book to read on my Kindle, I feel like I'm missing a limb. I've also bought several books the past few months at an actual bookstore. I'm currently reading "The Girls of Atomic City' about Oak Ridge, TN. When my parents lived in east TN 30+ years ago, Oak Ridge was one of the obscure historical places we visited with the daughter.
Yesterday we had our second Covid shots. Hubby has the sweats and chills. I have a wicked sore left arm. Those are minor symptoms, so no problem.

[Marlene]

Hubby needs to replace not just the tail light, but the complete part containing the tail light on his Jeep. The dealership has 60+ of the parts on back order! Hubby asked if the part is on the ship stuck in the Suez Canal. Ha. Actually, it is being shipped from Italy (Fiat?) and should be here April 12.

[Marlene]

Well, I guess Oak Ridge can't be called obscure. :) My image of visiting the museum is the daughter standing on a static electricity machine and her hair standing on end.

[Davod]

I am getting the one shot vaccine on Tuesday.

[jimmyk]

I had no side effects at all (not even a sore arm) from my one and only J&J shot three days ago. Guessing I got the saline solution.

[Jim Eagle]

I remember when every Jeep was made in Toledo, Ohio. Back in the mid to late 70's I had a CJ-5 rag top in of all places Marquette, MI snow capital of the USA. 160"'s average starting in September and ending in late April.

Never again. Not the CJ-5 but the UP in winter:)

[sbwaters]

Momto2: Our next book will be "Fahrenheit 451" which should lead to a timely discussion

Gave a talk at the library in 2004 on "Fahrenheit 451".

From the talk:
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"One of the often-overlooked details of 'Fahrenheit 451'," Ray Bradbury interviewer John J. Miller explained, "is that the censorship Mr. Bradbury describes was not imposed from the top by a ruthless government. Rather, it seeped up from the indifferent masses. As a villain explains: "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. . . . No wonder books stopped selling."

Bradbury points out in the interview, "There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them," he says. "The education system in this country is just terrible, and we're not doing anything about it."

Ray Bradbury reminds in an interview, that the purpose of "Fahrenheit 451" was not to prophesy. "I wasn't trying to predict the future," he says. "I was trying to prevent it."

The only thing that distinguishes humanity from the rest of the species is our ability to project a future and plan a better one. ...

[sbwaters]

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Books:

I did get a couple of the books because of high recommendations here. Oddly, stopped dead about a chapter in in both of them. "Peace Like a River" and "Hillbilly Elegy".

But then, years ago I started Ken Kesey’s "Sometimes a Great Notion", read 100 pages and stopped. ... Picked it up months later and finished it amazed. Kesey started the book at the end and ended it at the beginning. Wild!

Maybe I’ll start those two again, but I don’t read to be depressed.

[sbwaters]

More from the 451 talk:

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From Richard Mitchell: "Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellow men bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought."

Simply because people agree or disagree with you doesn't make what you think right or wrong. As we rush headlong into an interactive age, what makes you suppose, unless you make it so, that it will be any more sensible than the last? Today weblog comments allow verbal smackdowns to be perceived as effective counter-argument.

Only you can put yourself at the point of the sword. Only you can defend your future and that of your children. Only you can inoculate yourself against the worm in the brain.

Political campaigns fog your intelligence into submission and then appeal emotionally to FUD - fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Media -- as distinguished from the press -- plays to the same emotions. Teasers like "Will there be enough water? -- News at Eleven" aren't designed to inform.

[Dave (in MA)]

Bowser will have 'em back on the street in no time.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/new-details-emerge-in-deadly-ubereats-carjacking-by-teen-girls/

[Jim Eagle]

SBW,

A few yars back (let's say 20) I decided to do St. John's Uiversity curriculum of the greatest 100 books. Damn, it was hard. And I was a volunteer reader not a student there. Got throgh them in about 8 years.

I have a club member friend who attended St. John's and said, reading them is no big thing, expaining them and why in today's enviorment they are important.

Read!

[Marlene]

Jim Eagle/Jack...hubby's Jeep was built in Toledo but apparently the parts come from who knows where?

[Jim Eagle]

I guarantee you thatr two little girl punks walk free. Challenge me!

[Jim Eagle]

...that those two...

[matt - deplore me if you must]

And its companion, "How to Avoid Getting Stuck in a Canal".

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Hmmm. first post mangled.

How to Avoid Large Ships should have been on that captains reading list.

[Davod]

Found in Ace pet edition.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Pet%20Thread%203%2027%2021%20(1).jpg

[Jim Eagle]

SBW,

Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Neotion" is one of the greatest American novells and movies everever written and made. Nurse Ratchet is a metaphoir of a crippling political economony system.

And Jack Nicholson is the perfect Randle McMurphy.

[sbwaters]

Jim Eagle, My late great-aunt, bless her heart, for $250 -- very expensive at the time -- bought for me a complete set of Great Books of the Western World for Christmas when I was a college student. Still have them. Still use them.

She was the aunt who refused to be called "aunt" and who for a different Christmas gave me a dozen jars of olives, half green and half black.

Everyone needs an aunt like her.

[CCGirl]

Sbw, I don’t find Peace Like A River depressing. The summary, IMO, makes it sound depressing, but I have laughed aloud several times. Interesting points about 451.

Just popping in. I attached hardware cloth to several sections of the fence, as well as planting it a foot deep. Then I planted peas, carrots, spinach, radishes, kale, arugula, and lettuce. I put up a flimsy temp fence to keep the bunnies out. I hope I didn’t overdo it today, as I have a lot more to do tomorrow.

I look like a mess, but I’m in an excellent mood! Nothing like sunshine in New England in March, and spring in the air:-)

[Jim Eagle]

SBW,

Take an olive everytime you finish one of the books.Preferably with a nice dry Martini:)

[Davod]

20 Photos Prove That Cats Aren’t Always Innocent

https://www.barnorama.com/20-photos-prove-that-cats-arent-always-innocent/

[Pinandpuller]

Speaking of leeks: https://www.sustainablemarketfarming.com/tag/perennial-leeks: https://www.sustainablemarketfarming.com/tag/perennial-leeks/

[Jane]

Davod,

The Camel denies having the border gig, says her only job is to negotiate with Mexico and Guatemala. No other responsibility.

[Jane]

Here’s the link Davod: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/quick-wednesday-biden-taps-kamala-fix-border-friday-kamalas-spokesperson-says-vp-not-border/

[Manuel Transmission]

Mulling the book thing, I think my problem is that it is almost impossible for me to single task. A serious book requires total concentration and I can’t stop all the background processes totally. It’s like flying. You have to continually be aware of a dozen things any one of which might bite you in the butt if you ignore it at the wrong moment.

In the evening with a drink at hand and watching TV, I’m either catching up on JOM, scanning pix, or all three. Almost can’t watch those foreign cop shows if there are subtitles to follow the dialogue.

[Davod]

Why it’s so hard to lose weight when you’re Cuban - March 27, 2021, by Alberto de la Cruz

https://babalublog.com/wpr/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cuban-diet-starter-kit-wnywcthwt.jpg

[CCGirl]

I get it ManTran. It has taken me a year to find a routine. First work was so nuts last spring. Then the kids have been home since last March. Hubs wasn’t working last spring, then had stress health issues. It seems it’s only been the last two months that I have finished a book. Even now I am plopped on the sofa, comfy clothing, first drink in hand, book by my side, and here I am posting 🙄.

Also if I head up to bed early to read and escape the dog follows me. Then his routine is fouled up and he will have us up two or three times overnight.

Certainly a lot less complex/technical than where you are, but it’s easier to sit in the living room, watch what hubs has on the tube, have a drink, and blog:-)

[CCGirl]

Davod, some funny posts there! Love the cats! Isn’t there a huge sandwich called a “Cubano?”

[anonamom]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/stop-critical-race-theory-before-it-destroys-america_3751003.html

[Narciso]

Yes the midnight sandwich is smaller on a sweet roll.

[Narciso]

Lower left hand square.

[anonamom]

this too

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/03/critical-race-theory-the-great-evil-of-our-time.php

[Davod]

CCGirl. Cubano can include various ingredients.

Example below.

http://www.melissadarabian.net/site/assets/Cubano.jpg

[anonamom]

We rewatched Lonesome Dove while on vacation in January.
Enjoyed it even more thirty two years later.Or maybe it's thirty two years older?

RIP Larry McMurty

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-author-brokeback-mountain-writer-dies-84-n1262176

[Davod]

Jane - Thanks. The ability of these people to wreck everything is so great, I am having difficulty even being sarcastic about their efforts.

[CCGirl]

Anonamom, Roger Simon always sums it up.

I try to leave the paper edition of The Epoch Times out hoping that the girls will read some of it. Oldest did once when she stopped by. Youngest, who needs it the most, has not. Son doesn’t need to read it.

Narc and Davod, a local restaurant serves them, but they are so large I avoid them - yes different kinds. I prefer the app-sized sandwich - like a slider.

[Melinda]

Jerry Dunleavy
@JerryDunleavy
Bizarre article. Redfield said he believed likely origin of COVID-19 was accidental escape from Wuhan lab & coronavirus may have resulted from gain-of-function research. Scientists in the story argue against covid being “created” or “designed” which is not really the same thing!

CBS News @CBSNews
"No evidence" to support former CDC director's theory that coronavirus escaped from lab, scientists say cbsn.ws/3w7qELN

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1375921307905310728

[Narciso]

A cuban sandwich is also on a harder roll.

[Melinda]

Hey! I got an idea. You bust your ass and I'll give it away for free, just for political gain.

Elijah Cohen
@PA_Capitol_Boy
I'm sorry but no. Absolutely not.

CNBC @CNBC
The White House is considering whether to lift intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines, sources say, which would allow other countries to replicate existing vaccines. @kaylatausche reports. cnb.cx/2P2KzLf

https://twitter.com/PA_Capitol_Boy/status/1375930567921917962

[Melinda]

X News Alerts
@XNewsAlerts
JUST IN: Massive fire erupts in Dallas, Texas. The cause of fire is unknown at this time

https://twitter.com/XNewsAlerts/status/1375931354618208259

[Davod]

If you like variety you can always go to a Vietnamese deli, where you should be able to buy sandwiches on French rolls. Great.

The Saigon Bakery in Falls Church, VA, is a good start.

https://edencenter.com/stores/saigon-bakery-deli/

[CCGirl]

Mel, why on earth would twitter flag that pic as “potentially sensitive content?” 😳. Trying not to swear, so the emogi.

[Narciso]

We have our own frites, kind of sliders on a small bun, with small cut fries

[lurkersusie]

Cleanup

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
·
1h
BREAKING: Trump WH official who helped cover up Hunter Biden illegal firearm was Deputy Chief of Staff for Ops Tony Ornato, previously the Secret Service Assistant Director, per messages obtained by reporting

Per source familiar, Ornato's motivation was to protect the USSS agents, not Hunter Biden

·

[Dave (in MA)]

May the best Orange Man win...

John Boehner Backs Ohio Incumbent Anthony Gonzalez Who Voted to Impeach, While President Trump Backs Primary Challenger Max Millerhttps://t.co/vuKPoA5dlE

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) March 27, 2021

[Melinda]

Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper
9m
Speaking of ships getting stuck

In 1864, as the US Army was retreating along the Red River in Louisiana, they ran outta river. Which was a problem for the accompanying US Navy gunboats, who didn't wanna get captured

Enter LTC Joseph Bailey from Wisconsin

Civil War Humor @CivilWarHumor
Every single one of Grant’s engineers at Vicksburg puffing on their pipe right now watching the Suez Canal thing unfold, muttering: “And they say WE built a Canal to Nowhere.”

Bailey, the chief engineer, is like "I can build a dam and locks and raise the water to float the gunboats over the shallow areas" to which his fellow officers said

But Gen Nathaniel Banks had a "it's so crazy it might just work" moment and gave Bailey the green light. Bailey got the lumberjacks from the 29th Maine hard at work felling timber and setting in the log cribs, while the 97th & 99th USCT filled the cribs with stone

In just a few days, they had a dam and improvised lock system in place and the smaller vessels were able to slip over. Within two weeks of the Navy getting stuck, all vessels were through and floating downstream

https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1375940989601386498

[CCGirl]

Davod and Narc, a local woman is a refugee from Cambodia. She started a restaurant that over the many years grew from a small shack to a nice location. Delicious food. I discovered last year that she had been a nanny for one of my customers. The kids loved her food so much that the customers helped her start the restaurant.

Boy she is a tough little thing. She used to write op-ed pieces to the CC Times concerning the war in Iraq. She said she lost all of her family in Cambodia, and when she could hear the bombings in the distance she knew the Americans were coming to help.

She is a tough negotiator. She tells us, “Too much!” on a screen repair job. That quote became something we would joke about at work. Then the kids working for us would say it. When my youngest was in high school, she said one of her friends said, “too much!” She said, “It’s weird that things that start at your work end up in my high school!” LOL

[CCGirl]

Great link, Melinda!

But we don’t need math these days, or strong, real men in the military 😳.

[Jane]

SBW,

I hope (think) I’m an aunt like that. You can’t even imagine the pleasure it brings!

[Dave (in MA)]

Reminds me of a certain hair-sniffing dementia patient.

* * * Click on comic for color version * * *

[CCGirl]

LOL Dave, I gave that birthday card to my SIL several years ago. My brother just laughed and said it’s so you! She falls a lot:-). But a good Biden goof as well.

Huh, we are breaking out Scrabble for an exciting Sat night. See you later!

[Narciso]

Like lurr from the planet omicron persei 8

[MissMarple2]

My work ethic is not as great as my desire to keep busy and accomplish something, anything, even if it's cleaning the bathroom and mopping.

Being unable to drive has made me stir-crazy!
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Regarding the ship, I have seen some speculation that the steering or navigation was messed up by computer hacking, although that seems counter-productive if China or Iran were the supposed culprits. I think I will mosey around to see who else is talking about this.
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Books I had to read in high school:

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Oliver Twist (Dickens again)

I am sure there are more, but I can't recall them now unless someone jogs my memory.

[Dave (in MA)]

Story assistance: For a story, I'm looking for a fairly large group of Georgians who want to vote but cannot get an ID. Please DM me if you have any leads! Thank you.

— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️‍♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) March 27, 2021

[Dave (in MA)]

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[MissMarple2]

Maria Bartiromo
@MariaBartiromo
·
10m
Tomorrow #Exclusive new content pictures from #border crisis ⁦@SundayFutures⁩ ⁦@FoxNews
⁩ 10am et ⁦@SenTedCruz
⁩ ⁦@SenJohnKennedy
⁩ ⁦@EricTrump
⁩ ⁦@charliekirk11
⁩ Christian Walker

[MissMarple2]

Heading to bed.

Good night, everyone!

[Catsmeat]

Catching up—re the need to learn how to teach—so silly—ed schools are a menace and the republic would benefit from their demise—how they dumb things down! I’ve always been a good teacher, but I learned from my good teachers and more from my bad and never had an “education” class. Henry, isn’t it interesting that two of my worst teachers at Yale were Harold Bloom (really, really bad at what he thought was a kind of socratic exchange) and Cleanth Brooks, on loan from the NEH, I think—so, so boring, but a very nice man. I learned from them both. My Shakespeare courses assumed you’d read at least a play a week; my fiction courses assumed a novel a week (rather a challenge with things like Middlemarch, To the Lighthouse, and Nostromo, but doable). I have colleagues now teaching Shakespeare who are fine teaching five to six plays a semester. Mom, you are holding the flag, and MM, you were properly educated—isn’t Kim a marvelous book? Also, actually I love Heyer’s mysteries—it’s the historical fiction that’s the problem. Jim Eagle, I funked the St. John’s application (four essay questions, all hard) and though my parents had taken me there on tour, I didn’t actually apply (sheer laziness) and went to Yale instead, but would have had a better education in Annapolis. But then I wasn’t just after an education, a bookish one, at any rate, the more fool me, perhaps.

[Davod]

Dave. Your 7:43 pm shows what the non-Soylent Green solution is for many of the ratbags. Of course, the proponents will still be eating normal food.

[CCGirl]

Catsmeat, thanks for summing it up so well.

[Narciso]

Cleanth brooks was penn warrens mentor no?

[henry]

Catsmeat, Spence, Pospisil, MacAvoy stand out for me. Plus the prof on the history of medicine seminar, Galen and Harvey brought to life. Lots of reading material and the lectures went far beyond the texts. But I had several (including Freshman English - several Shakespeare plays but mindnumbingly stupid lectures- I stayed away from group 1 after that). Going to Ed school to learn how to teach the slowest learner to fail a standard text is the current union optimum. Why bother? Why go to that class?

[sbwaters]

Catsmeat. We were supposed to get together in Rochester.

Mrs. sbw and I are still looking forward to that conversation.

[Narciso]

They seem to have returned to humours and leaches.

[Narciso]

I see

https://branford.yalecollege.yale.edu/leopold-pospisil-phd