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Every local Thanksgiving Turkey Trot 5K
November 28, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Seeing self-identified "Christians" choose to keep food from children as a political bargaining tool reminds me of Neal Stephenson's Leviticans of Ameristan in his (otherwise quite bad) book "Fall: Or, Dodge in Hell"
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A friend shared this poem and it's been haunting me. Good Bones, by Maggie Smith
Words of the poem Good Bones, by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
January 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Every local Thanksgiving Turkey Trot 5K
November 28, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Happy Monday, y'all
A cute dog sleeping peacefully
November 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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I reached midterm, then I got halfway from midterm to the end of the semester, and with Thanksgiving still two weeks away I feel like I'm stuck in Zeno's Paradox
November 15, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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A post on November in higher ed: Your Students Do Not Deserve Your Cynicism

www.drcolin.net/your-student...
drcolin.net - Your Students Do Not Deserve Your Cynicism
It's that time of the semester. In mid-November we all get a bit frazzled - the semester's been running forever and yet the end still feels far away. For students reality is setting in - the stakes ar...
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November 12, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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December 9, 2023 at 4:14 PM
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"WVU’s enrollment has dropped 10 percent since 2015, far worse than the national average and unusual particularly for a flagship university."

Gordon Gee has been president throughout this trend, yet the Board extended his contract, while people who had no role in the decline lose jobs. Infuriating
WVU professors get their layoff notices
Amid the sweeping elimination of degree offerings and faculty members’ jobs at West Virginia University, professors are left with possibly hopeless appeals.
www.insidehighered.com
October 22, 2023 at 8:52 PM