101 years ago: "American-Born Pope As Future Possibility"

100 years ago, the President of the United States treated his cold by having the Army lock him in an air-tight room filled with chlorine gas.

It went so well that the First Lady joined him the next day (just to hang out, she wasn't sick).

History is interesting.

How did people feel about Congress 100 years ago? About the same.

I think I finally understand the Teapot Dome scandal.

My university is being re-classified as R1. How about that? Pretty cool.

carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/...

A good piece at Fox News about impoundment (in which I'm quoted). We need more like this in outlets that are read by Republicans. www.foxnews.com/politics/con...

"[H]e shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

Gonna take a victory lap because I said all along that DeWine would pick Husted for Senate—ditto for Vance and Walz as VP.

What’s that, you say—did I also get the 2024 election right? I’m sorry, you’re breaking up.

www.wosu.org/2025-01-17/d...

Thanks, Laura! I certainly will.

Pretty excited about this one.

-administrative responsibilities

-grading

-8 am class times

-not being able to find the classroom

-ChatGPT

-18-month article review processes

-8 am conference slots

-budget freezes/ cuts

- PhD students' job prospects

-did I mention administrative responsibilities

-seriously though, grading

Starting a 6-week paternity leave today. Grateful to my university (and Harrison, too!) for making this possible.

I did it for the first time this semester & followed the example from one of my grad school profs of buying them something with the money. He did a pizza party. I made a game of forecasting the election outcome & got the top two students a gift certificate of their choosing. Went over well, I think.

Also, buy Heath’s book on the Biden-Harris transition, “Roadblocked” (50% off thru Thursday from UPK): kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637072/

Terrific interview w/ @heathbrown.bsky.social on the Trump transition. If you’re looking for a quick but informative update on the process (and various attendant controversies), check this out.

www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...

What a great interview, Heath! Very informative.

“Perhaps it’s the winning party that really faces the toughest question post-election: How do you build public support during an era of relatively slow growth, low trust in government and low satisfaction with the state of the country?”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...

Funny enough, this movie provides one of my earliest specific VP memories—(paraphrasing), “Everyone thinks I’m an idiot, but it’s all just a big fakade.”

Haha, same here.

TFW you watch Jeopardy! and all three contestants miss a response because it's about obscure Vice Presidents and you know there are like 8 other people on the planet who feel the way you do @juliaazari.bsky.social @profdevine.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idrt...

Oh, that is so good! Thanks for sharing (I hadn't seen it). Tough question. My first thought was Cleveland b/c of Stevenson, but Sewall made me realize it was Bryan. Who was his other running mate in 1896, Tom Watson I think?

Happy to share my new paper online now @thejop.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Punchline: state legislators whose districts are in out-of-state media markets are more likely to author and cosponsor policy innovations already adopted in the neighboring state.

Man, I hear that. I’m good in the off-season when not thinking about baseball. These last few days have me missing it again.