No taxation with aerial defecation.

So do you endorse Lucile Vaughan Payne's jihad against the word itself?

No there isn't.

Imagine being in charge of the Enterprise laundry that week.

The Expanse except for Amos.

I'm a fan of Weinberg's op. 18 piano quintet. An interesting contrast with Shostakovich.

I bet Disney would pay real money for a Pope Lando II.

I did not plan it that way - I just felt like hearing this new recording today!

My whole thing here has been less about teaching and more about what the students are able to fall back on, 10 and 20 years after college.

I agree about the value of processes of inquiry in teaching! I'm just starting to think there might be a longer-term value in a canon for the student after graduation. Especially as I see our society growing less and less curious over the past couple of decades.

I would ordinarily support that, but I feel like that's what we've tried to do for a while, and here we are. I still think the lack of a common frame of reference is going to be a problem.

There's also a strong push from a certain wing to make college even more explicitly about job skills, and if you're right, that will build an even bigger anti-academia backlash.