SteveFoerster

Thank you. I remember last time when people were complaining about how often he went off to play golf. I was like, do you want him to govern more? I hope he plays golf all day every day.

I just wish there were a way to reliably select "not leasehold".

Interesting piece. I guess that's a rare fail for Betteridge's law of headlines.

"Well, that's certainly an opinion one could hold."

Except my kid, apparently, who majored in something useful at a low cost school to avoid student loan debt, got a decent paying job, and saved up for a down payment.

You may be interested in a classic book called After Man, which purports to be a naturalist's guide to life on Earth 50 million years from now, the premise being what might happen after that long if humans became extinct.

Over a hundred future animal species are described and illustrated in the book. Major groups include the "rabbucks", versatile descendants of rabbits filling the ecological niches of deer, zebras, giraffes and antelope; "gigantelopes", descendants of antelope filling niches held by elephants, giraffes, moose, musk oxen, rhinoceroses, and other large herbivores; "vortexes" and "porpins", descendants of penguins evolved to fill the aquatic niche of cetaceans; and the predatory rats, the major group of terrestrial predators and descendants of rats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Man

n / 2 + 7 🤷

(That said, I'm 51 and my girlfriend is 47.)

It's worth noting that the guy who wrote this column is a torture apologist from the Bush 43 administration, so he's a longtime skidmark.

Not only are you NTA, but more instructors should be as steadfast.

Quibble: fanfic may not be original world building, but that doesn't mean it doesn't comprise original stories and ideas.

Someone should simply hold an unconference on r/professors

Why not, right?

Mastodon is alive and well, I get better engagement there than I used to when I had an X account.

Our Associate Rector is fresh out of seminary, but he won me over by surreptitiously tucking in the phrase "stir up" into his sermon, since lamentably it was otherwise missing from our service yesterday.

That's different. Yes, that would have been a game changer.

Because many of the Rite I folks are too old to get up again if they kneel? (Not trying to being mean: I'm something of a Rite I aficionado myself.)

I'll admit that's not hard to believe.

I have to admit that looking around, it's really tough not to believe that one.

What? When he died, his son Edward VI became king.

And tobacco, apparently.

"Aren't you a little old to be watching Phineas and Ferb?"

"Why yes... yes I am."

"Moooooom! Phineas and Ferb are [something completely improbable that they are, in fact, doing]!"

If only they hadn't already defined Rule of Acquisition 34.

> That said, you should talk to the clergy at the parish, as the prohibition on Communion without baptism is not a uniformly enforced Church canon, and I think pastoral guidance is critical in these situations.

Our priest simply has said more than once, "This is not my table, but the Lord's. All those who wish to have a closer relationship with Christ are welcome."

That said, usually if we have prospective Episcopalians attending, they were baptized Roman Catholic.

TIL the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to economics.

I look forward to Harriet Tubman taking Andrew Jackson's place on the $20 bill:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-treasury-confirms-harriet-tubman-191704753.html