This is the kind of thing that gets lawyers sanctioned when they use AI to write legal briefs…

Besides getting better at reading in whatever other language you are reading, struggling with writing in its original language is an education in the opacity of language and meaning that is different even than reading difficult works in English like Ulysses. It certainly keeps one humble!

You’ll need a good dictionary and will use it often, it will be really frustrating and slow at first, and you will miss a lot of things. But stick with it! There is nothing quite like grasping a well-written sentence or verse in the original for the first time.

The 1962 film of The Manchurian Candidate is far superior to the novel.

Transgender Day of Remembrance tdor.translivesmatter.info

These are folks who have never seen a list of names for TDOR and noted that up to half of them are folx from Brazil.

The other time a judge was a woman in Kansas (I think) named Driskell who filed a rambling handwritten five or six page complaint on notebook paper against “Homosexuals.” Not specific queer people: “Homosexuals.” *All* of them.

Trump’s lawyers join the august company of Crackpot Kansas Lady

I know I risk offending the sensibilities of this website, but it's almost like the leadership of higher ed, the media, and many of the other commanding heights of our institutions are staffed by idiots, cowards, opportunists, and social climbers.