Too bad I'm not teaching a propaganda course in the fall.

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

Maybe Harvard leadership realized that these demands are a moving target. There's no guarantee the federal government will stop the threats regardless of what is conceded. Better to fight back.

Nice to see a university do *something* other than immediately capitulate.

To all the Dems saying "but what can we do," here's one answer. Take the opportunities these cowards are handing to you.

Pedro Pascal on trans people. Perfectly stated.

What could go wrong?

My heart goes out to the family and friends of Peter Elbow. I was accepted to the UMass Comp/Rhet program in '04 (ended up at UNH), so I spoke with Peter back then, and we checked in a few times over the years in person and through email. He was always gracious and kind. One of the best of us. RIP.

Hens are female, so we can't address the high price of eggs because that would be DEI.

"The subtext of this rhetoric ... suggests that the loyalty of noncitizens should be seen as inherently suspect — and that they should be seen ... as a fifth column of potential spies and saboteurs, whose sleeper-cell progeny shouldn’t be given citizenship for the security of the republic. "

Bad for Iowa, good for my Rhetoric course.

Yes, Rich, that's correct. What's hard about it? The rest of us have understood it for decades.
"You’re telling me that kids who stay at home instead of going to work at Burger King, McDonald’s, during the summer, should stay at home and get their free lunch instead of going to work?"

I aspire to be this courageous.

I'm gradually unliking pages on FB and finding their equivalents here. Mostly, I'm realizing how many long-dead pages there are on FB. Some of them are a total mystery; I don't even remember what they were or why I liked them.

A birthday post from Martin Luther King, Jr. (1/3):
"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom...

The confirmation bias around this poll was disheartening to watch.

Well, it's a good thing I grabbed this username back in the day. Lots of Mike Garcias on here now, I reckon.