David Beard
dbeard.bsky.social
David Beard
@dbeard.bsky.social
Professor of Rhetoric and Duluthian
Whatever you think about the art, Balent did years on that title. It’s an achievement.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
My sister is a diabetic on Medicaid. I cannot convince her that voting Republican, much less voting for him, is hurting her own access to medicine.
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Just now, in the year if our lord 2025, you are watching TOS?

TNG is regrettably a better overall execution, but the best TOS is amazing.
September 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Those Kitchen Sink Eisner and Caniff mags were chef’s kiss.
August 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I love Horton’s because it offers so many nonfried options.
August 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
My God Bob Layton created Iron Man as I visualize him.
July 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My god what a find.
June 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
How do geographers feel about Benedict Anderson?
June 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
He's a humorist, so it's not a scholarly work -- it's a gently funny, sometimes darkly funny, polemic -- but it's well informed and worth a read.
May 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
May 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Baddiel was right.
May 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
You schedule a Zoom with Kelsea.
May 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The strangest thing about midcareer is realizing how much like a newspaper scholarship is — recyclable, not forever.

But my friend I hope you are a long way from dying.
April 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Oooh! Sounds cool.
April 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM