If any Eurovision fans want to jump to something else, silent movies have all the glitz and glam and trash

“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.

The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.

Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.

Okay, I am going to show you something but you have to promise to remain calm:

Ditto people thinking silent era audiences fainted at the slightest whiff of (whispers) sex

Conrad Veidt’s filmography alone would get a ban in most of the modern Midwest

Sure, my kids are coming unhinged. But (a note of pride enters my voice) not about a new bike lane!

If you're going to stretch your runtime to silent era European levels, you better deliver Conrad Veidt painted gold and not some CGI cobbled together at the last minute by underpaid animators who take the blame for studio cheapness, lack of vision and refusal to complete the goddamn script

Trying to make friends with other moms when you’re not into fairy smut and Love Island in the year 2025. 😭

I Don’t Support Feminism If It Means Murdering All Men
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(bernie sanders voice) no one should wake up and find they have seventy five new emails

Is YOUR child texting about P.G. Wodehouse? Get to know the signs:

BRB = Bertie’s Rum Bother
LMAO = Lest Maiden Aunts Occur
JFC = Jeeves Favours Caution
BTW = Bold Tie Warnings
WTAF = Well Then, Augustus Fink-Nottle
STFU = Sir, That Fedora’s...Unfortunate

Report: Majority Of Utah Jazz Players Have Never Heard Of Themselves

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

Watched “Babette’s Feast” today and I think this is my new Thanksgiving tradition. Also, the 3yo has a high tolerance for the Danish language.