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Tired, but not yet retired. Ph.D. Taught American literature to a whole slew of college students, many of whom have gone on to impress the hell out of me with their sometimes brilliant or sometimes (like mine) quite ordinary but honorable careers.
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Crank up the curb theme song
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

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January 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Madison Keys becomes the 3rd American woman to win a Grand Slam singles title this decade.

Sofia Kenin - 2020 Australian Open.

Coco Gauff - 2023 US Open.

Madison Keys - 2025 Australian Open.

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January 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I like both Sinner and Shelton. What's a gal to do?
January 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
William S. Burroughs wrote amusingly in the ancillary portions of Naked Lunch about opioids and constipation, all of which remains mostly theoretical to the scholar until forty years pass and she has a hip replacement operation. All I'm saying is, Bill, I see you.
December 8, 2024 at 3:00 PM
The season cannot begin until the ritual watching of The Crossing. NOW.
November 29, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Finished reading A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, by that wholly good man, Jimmy
Carter.
November 28, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The world may be going to smash, but in the meantime, maybe there's pie.
November 28, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Haven't had the heart to read a newspaper since November 5, but I suppose I'll have to sometime.
November 26, 2024 at 11:26 PM