Another week is come and gone. Soon we will be dead. The inexorable cruelty of thermodynamic processes rot us from the inside out, the eternal stillness of the grave beckons us, our inner fatasses lie to us and tell us that we need to relax, and the government wants us to cut off our balls and eat heart-healthy and carbon-neutral whole grains and polyunsaturated fatty acids. So rejoice, bros, and enjoy fighting the Long Defeat for a few more years, glorying in the chance to defy these womanish and gay enemies by getting jacked and tan and eating, I dunno, raw beef hearts or some shit.

Job opening at some place I’ve never heard of, and which sounds rad and based

As the Director of Audience Development you’ll help deepen Reason’s connections with our unique community, grow the audience, and lead the effort to maximize the reach and impact of content and communications being created across Reason. You will evaluate the effectiveness of existing audience development activities and work with the Reason team to develop new strategies, build plans, and implement marketing and engagement activities to engage existing audiences and bring in new ones.

 

I’m not saying it’s aliens

The bombshell Freedom of Information haul includes reports on the DIA’s research into the biological effects of UFO sightings on humans.

And this includes burns, heart problems, sleep disturbances – and even bizarre occurrences such as “apparent abduction” and “unaccounted for pregnancy”.

 

Matzo is serious business

A key member of Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party has quit the Israeli coalition government after a row about unleavened bread during Passover, in a surprise move that leaves the prime minister without a parliamentary majority.

 

The more they deny it…

The claim is completely false, according to Guttenberg, who clarified in an email to The Associated Press that “the Waunakee Community School District does not have protocols for Furries, nor do we allow disruptions in our school and classrooms.”

 

Which one of you was this?

The FBI interviewed him and says he didn’t think the female passenger was uncomfortable with him masturbating and he thought “it was kind of kinky.”

 

War? War? C’mon, war! War war war war war war war! War???

That essentially means doing more of what we’re already doing. We could send still more arms, more quickly—say, 500 switchblade drones instead of 100. All types of weapons should be on the table for transfer, except for nuclear weapons (obviously) and missiles of a range that could strike Russia. Biden should rethink his ban on sending Soviet-built MiG-29s fighter jets, which Ukrainian pilots know how to fly. Yes, some of those pilots could fly one across the border, but if this didn’t happen—or even if it did once or twice—would Putin be moved to push the button? Seems unlikely.

 

This is fine and was completely unpreventable and could not have been prevented and is fine

Marley knew the pandemic was wreaking havoc on people’s lives. But she didn’t expect that its impact on learning would be so profound, even when students returned, with excitement, to campus.
She is far from alone. The Chronicle recently asked faculty members to share their experiences with student disengagement this academic year. More than 100 people wrote in to describe a disconcerting level of disconnection among students, using words like “defeated,” “exhausted,” and “overwhelmed.”

 

We’re not quite to the point where sending tanks to Harvard Yard is seen as the moderate position, but this is progress

The upshot is simple: The idea that in our society, after high school the ordinary trajectory is to attend another four years of school has become arbitrary, purposeless and even absurd. Botstein noted, “America has a more elaborate educational system that spreads over more years, reaches more people, and ends up with results for the entire population that are worse than those countries with educational systems that are explicitly not democratic and on the surface offer fewer opportunities for advanced education.” This model, he argued, is hardly what we would choose if asked with no experience how things should go. He argued that the model of high school we currently use is from a time when teenagers were on average less intellectually mature than they are now. Botstein proposed instead that childhood education can stop at 10th grade and that the education kids get during that year be a richer one than kids typically get today even going up through 12 grades.

 

As is this

IUP, as the public university here is known, mirrored the state pattern. Its fall student head count of about 9,300 was down 12 percent since 2019. Federal data shows enrollment peaked in 2012 at more than 15,500. That’s a 40 percent decline in a less than a decade, battering the university’s finances.

 

That’s all. Now go lift some weights, or get punched in the face, or bang a floozy, or eat a steak.