Because there have only been six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!) since Carter(!) when the GOP couldn't obstruct everything!

Six months of progress, 44.5 years of obstruction or worse.

And building is always harder than destroying.

Good point.

Speaks to how little trust I have in Schumer (my Senator).

Plus — my own pet peeve — the incomprehensible way we are allowing our libraries to be used for AI training by corporations while mostly preventing faculty from using them in the same way. That's just a shotgun aimed at our own feet.

It’s well known* that people from Los Anchorage can’t drive in snow or tolerate cold weather.

* in Fairbanks

I can’t tell if the guy in the bottom row is wearing a Texas-style cowboy hat or Professor Quirrell’s turban, but either way it’s a risky choice for a campaign photo in Alaska.

Sure, that's what makes independent bookstores so much fun. (Home bookshelves, too, if you can afford the habit.)

Thing is, it's not sociology.

But, sociology sections of popular book stores tend to be dumping grounds for a lot of stuff that isn't sociology. It's like a residual category.

Vance's book belongs in the remainder bin for memoirs, or perhaps contemporary fiction-inspired-by-real-life-events.

Hillbilly Elegy? In the sociology section?

After that "town hall", I'm cautiously optimistic that the guidelines will just appear on an "faculty and staff resources" page, buried 8 clicks deep in the HR website.

Relative to the Columbia & Brown agreements (and what's been reported about the Harvard & UCLA negotiations), it allows Cornell to maintain more institutional autonomy & it better protects intellectual freedom in hiring, teaching and research.

Again: am I happy? no but relieved it's not much worse.