If you're not following me on Bluesky you're missing out on a marathon of fun paired history facts about the countries in every World Cup matchup, featuring once-in-a-lifetime sentences like "In 1893, 200 Australian sheep shearers boarded a ship to follow a leftist labor journalist around Cape Horn and establish a utopian socialist, teetotal, whites-only New Australia on free land in the Paraguayan jungle." Remedy this immediately. ...
t's great that the cage fight at the White House - an almost fatally embarrassing thing in its own right; try saying the phrase out loud - is happening during the NBA Finals, the Stanely Cup Finals, and the Men's World Cup. Unless he dies at ringside, it might be the 4th sports headline on Monday. Emphasis on "might be."
Sure we're auctioning off whatever tiny shreds of dignity we have left as a nation but isn't it worth it to maybe be the top story on Yahoo! Sports for 20 minutes between World Cup group stage results like "Paraguay vs. Turkey" and "Ascension Island vs. Bir Tawil" ...
They're calling this an IPO because legally they can't print up a giant banner reading HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD A BAG, YOU BIG FUCKING IDIOT?
Make sure YOU don't miss out on the opportunity to put up 48% of the money for 4.2% of the stock! Book value, $8! ...
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lm says:
Thanks…Gin and Tacos for everyone!
robot eating says:
Gin and Tacos always gets plenty of play over at the POP. Thanks for bringing back the EZ links so that my alter ego can share you via FB.
FWIW.
anotherbozo says:
Excellent post,and a good reminder of why I bailed on college teaching two decades ago. My last full-time post was replaced by 5 part-timers–with no job security whatever, of course. With them the pressure to pander to students was even greater than with us full-time, non-tenured faculty. With private colleges, at least, teachers become just so many hucksters. Classes turn into popularity contests, grades get inflated… and illiterates graduate. And the wide world wonders why Joe College can't read. Or reason.
A different point from yours, I know, but another part of the picture, and another reason for job security. In retrospect I do treasure memories of students who really were there for the right reasons, who weren't already terminally damaged goods, who outdid themselves, even though only two of us realized it. The real successes so often remain unacclaimed.