Tom Maguire
tmaguire08.bsky.social
Tom Maguire
@tmaguire08.bsky.social
Teacher (retired), unionist, classical music fan, Chicago obsessive (go Cubs go!), and lucky husband.🇺🇸🇮🇪
Saw this show in ‘24 and will be returning this season. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much. Omelette!
January 14, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I was—you didn’t miss much.
January 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Thank God I'm retired and don't have to deal—in a professional capacity, at least—with this AI nonsense. IMHO you're wrong on this one, Ms. Weingarten.
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I occasionally did a lesson about the ways in which this assumption was almost certainly wrong, but I never made much headway. Again, what matters is that they believe it. 3/3
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I taught HS for 31 years in a rich town. Most of the kids were quite liberal (former colleagues tell me that's changing, in part because of what Douthat said today). The % of kids who thought they didn't get into an elite univ. because of affirmative action was quite high. 2/3
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
But even if that's true, the white kid not getting the job would potentially feel just as much resentment. It doesn't matter if it's a lie, what matters, in terms of the radicalization of young white men, is that they believe it. 1/3
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Make that 14 by car.
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Leave him in for a bit, please
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Not too much snark at all! Good piece, Sara—thank you.
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Still my favorite "Dives and Lazarus"
August 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This album changed my life. My HS chorus (Fox Lane HS in Bedford , NY—hardly a bastion of English music) performed RVW’s “O How Amiable are thy dwellings,” and shortly thereafter I saw this record in a local shop and bought it—and thus a life-long love for Vaughan Williams’ music was born.
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A win! All sins forgiven.... This offer good today only.
August 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's a miracle!
August 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Wish I could adopt that attitude about the Cubs, too. Today nearly broke me.
August 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM