Football is back, with the American public’s talent for fast forgetting on full display. The live broadcast of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s near-death experience is rapidly receding into the background as the players scrimmage, fall, roll and rise back and forth. The crowds scream, the advertisers and owners rake in more big bucks, the … Continue reading Football, Forgetting, and the All-American Death Cult
[NOTE: one scholar cited here says that the number of tenured professors ballooned after World War II, when more Amerians, especially veterans, went to college, got advanced degrees and stayed on to teach. Today, student body numbers are falling, but grad schools keep churning out new PhDs. So there’s a glut, too many carrying … Continue reading Academic Tenure Will Soon Be Gone — Unless . . .
I missed a significant anniversary last month, on December 7. No, not Pearl Harbor Day, December 7 1941, when a deadly Japanese surprise attack on American bases in Hawaii pulled the U. S. into World War II. Nor was it December 7, 1973, my son’s birthday.
The hard freeze is imminent and the next Ukrainian offensive will follow not long after Gwynne Dyer · Columnist — Jan. 3, 2023 It’s still unseasonably warm in Ukraine, but there’s a chance of a hard freeze next weekend. By mid-month, it should be reliably below zero almost all the time: the ground will be … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Ukraine Is Moving Toward A Winter Offensive
[NOTE: I use Wikipedia almost every day. It’s perhaps the finest flower of the rapidly-disappearing era of the free (as in built for honest public service rather than profit or propaganda) internet. But the Saudi rulers know how to deal with such unwelcome ideas & their advocates: if bribery doesn’t suffice (as in golf), jail, … Continue reading Breaking: Is Nothing Sacred? Saudis Jail Two Wikipedia Editors