Is it too late to vote on this old tiny music under the current commentary? Maybe I’m just an old man, but it’s extraordinarily distracting. Could you at least just run old-time music that doesn’t have words in it? Thank you.
I agree. I don't like it, but please at least make it instrumental! Trying to listen to Jeff while also hearing lyrics makes it extremely difficult to pay attention to what he's saying.
10,000 Maniacs is one of the more egregious mismatches between name and content. Like it musically really doesn't sound like even one maniac, let alone 10,000 of them.
Just another idea for the current commentary vs old article reading; a different voice like Jim Gaffigan does when voicing the audiences' thoughts. Nothing ridiculous that's difficult to maintain for multiple sentences, but you should still be able to present two clear voices that are both "you" and yet distinguishable
Part of the hilarity of the Claudine Gay situation was the very bad defense of her plagiarism. My favorite was that it wasn’t plagiarism, it was just “duplicative language,” which assumes that everyone is a moron. Many people are morons, but few are so moronic to not know that that is a synonym.
If the Ivy League schools had actually been bastions of free expression and political openness, the responses in the congressional hearing wouldn’t have been nearly as terrible for the schools. The thing is, no one believed it. Gay had been involved with the ouster of a law school dean who…acted as a defense lawyer for a defendant! We know that Harvard had rescinded the acceptance of students for stupid things adolescents said in private group chats! Carol Hooven, a tenured professor, was driven out of the school for saying something so banal that it’s hard to believe anyone objected, if you weren’t in a weird political hothouse. Hooven showed much more grace in that situation than most would.
Having met many a Harvard graduate, and it being the only school to which I applied that I did not get in, there was a bit of schadenfreude. There is a type of Harvard graduate for whom having gone to Harvard is a major part of their personality, more so than any Ivy League university (or Oxford or Cambridge or other internationally renowned institution, though the Brits have their public school networks).
Sometimes it takes a "bully" to shake out corrupt organizations who would qualify for prosecution under the RICO act, like every university that accepts multiple billions of public money for "research". Outsiders like you cannot see the rot from within like those of us who operate in that ecosystem on a daily basis. The research system will not reform itself because it has no incentive to do so. Trump is playing "Shane" and rooting out the cattle barons in the Ivies. I think that it's his way of setting an example for the land-grant Uni's and the other elite Privie's. It's a unique moment to do some huse cleaning!
By focusing on Gay at Harvard, you miss the obvious DEI execution that was prepetrated by Gay on Roland Fryer because his research didn't support the white police killing black innocents narratives at Harvard and others. They hung him out to dry because they wanted to censor his voice of dissent with the high priestess of DEI who was and is a uniquely unqualified pseudo-academic to lead an Elite uni like Harvard. She was openly and privately discussed by liberal white elites as their token success for DEI. Sure she got demoted, but it's hard to sympathize with an unqualified person who plagerizes her way into $900K/yr salary + 30% housing subsidy + tenured Professor benefits, etc..
In her seminal research, Harvard sociologist Devah Prager showed employers were more likely to hire a white person with a criminal record than a black person whose record was crime-free.
If anyone is unconvinced by the research of one of the world’s most respected social scientists, perhaps a real-world example would be persuasive:
Imagine a black man who behaves exactly like Donald Trump. Is he elected president? Twice? Is he even hired as assisted manager of a used car dealership?
In the same way corporations would maximally exploit workers if unions didn’t exist, without DEI, whites in positions of power will withhold opportunities from qualified non-whites.
DEI is only discrimination if you ignore the cultural context in which it exists. When you consider the context, it’s obvious DEI solely exists to correct for entrenched discrimination against non-whites.
This doesn’t means DEI is always executed well or in good faith. Just like some union leaders are incompetent or corrupt, so are some architects of DEI.
But DEI initiatives — like unions — are still a necessary countervailing force.
In her seminal research, Harvard sociologist Devah Prager showed employers were more likely to hire a white person with a criminal record than a black person whose record was crime-free.
If anyone is unconvinced by the research of one of the world’s most respected social scientists, perhaps a real-world example would be persuasive:
Imagine a black man who behave exactly like Donald Trump. Is he elected president? Twice? Is he even hired as assisted manager of a used car dealership?
In the same way corporations would maximally exploit workers if unions didn’t exist, without DEI, whites in positions of power will withhold opportunities from qualified non-whites.
DEI is only discrimination if you ignore the cultural context in which it exists. When you consider the context, it’s obvious DEI solely exists to correct for entrenched discrimination against non-whites.
This doesn’t means DEI is always executed well or in good faith. Just like some union leaders are corrupt, so are some architects of DEI.
But DEI — like unions — are still a necessary countervailing force.
I Never Knew is a brilliant tune. I got to play it with legendary bassist, Chuck Israels when we did a John Coltrane/Kenny Burrell tribute because there's a terrific version of that tune on that album.
You say that Claudia Gay appeared with two other Ivy League school administrators, but MIT isn't an Ivy League school.
*EDIT* You say that the reason gun control doesn't pay off is that the anti-control people are smaller but really really care and the pro-control people are more but only care a little bit. But when put on the ballot by itself, gun control measures underperform plain democratic candidates.
Maine was +3 for Clinton, +9 for Biden, and +7 for Harris. A proposal to require a background check for transfers by non-dealers was on the ballot in 2016, and lost by 3.6 points. There was no need for pro-control people to have to put other priorities first.
Jeff, what were you thinking when you came up with the first two systems for distinguishing old content and current commentary? Neither one works. Neither is intuitive.
When you play the old content, you are playing an old recording. The cue in should be a needle drop. The cue out should be a record scratch. Leave some pops and scratches in the background to indicate the old material.
If the idea of the US means anything then Harvard yes is a locus of the idea. Its graduates started a lot of colleges elsewhere. As a Celtics fan and a Carolina grad, I believe just because people groan when we say yeah they are kinda great it's envy.
Is it too late to vote on this old tiny music under the current commentary? Maybe I’m just an old man, but it’s extraordinarily distracting. Could you at least just run old-time music that doesn’t have words in it? Thank you.
I agree. I don't like it, but please at least make it instrumental! Trying to listen to Jeff while also hearing lyrics makes it extremely difficult to pay attention to what he's saying.
10,000 Maniacs is one of the more egregious mismatches between name and content. Like it musically really doesn't sound like even one maniac, let alone 10,000 of them.
Just another idea for the current commentary vs old article reading; a different voice like Jim Gaffigan does when voicing the audiences' thoughts. Nothing ridiculous that's difficult to maintain for multiple sentences, but you should still be able to present two clear voices that are both "you" and yet distinguishable
Part of the hilarity of the Claudine Gay situation was the very bad defense of her plagiarism. My favorite was that it wasn’t plagiarism, it was just “duplicative language,” which assumes that everyone is a moron. Many people are morons, but few are so moronic to not know that that is a synonym.
If the Ivy League schools had actually been bastions of free expression and political openness, the responses in the congressional hearing wouldn’t have been nearly as terrible for the schools. The thing is, no one believed it. Gay had been involved with the ouster of a law school dean who…acted as a defense lawyer for a defendant! We know that Harvard had rescinded the acceptance of students for stupid things adolescents said in private group chats! Carol Hooven, a tenured professor, was driven out of the school for saying something so banal that it’s hard to believe anyone objected, if you weren’t in a weird political hothouse. Hooven showed much more grace in that situation than most would.
Having met many a Harvard graduate, and it being the only school to which I applied that I did not get in, there was a bit of schadenfreude. There is a type of Harvard graduate for whom having gone to Harvard is a major part of their personality, more so than any Ivy League university (or Oxford or Cambridge or other internationally renowned institution, though the Brits have their public school networks).
Did the boosts from culture war pieces translate into paid subscribers?
Has anyone made a collection of these songs from the introductions? Spotify? YouTube?
Sometimes it takes a "bully" to shake out corrupt organizations who would qualify for prosecution under the RICO act, like every university that accepts multiple billions of public money for "research". Outsiders like you cannot see the rot from within like those of us who operate in that ecosystem on a daily basis. The research system will not reform itself because it has no incentive to do so. Trump is playing "Shane" and rooting out the cattle barons in the Ivies. I think that it's his way of setting an example for the land-grant Uni's and the other elite Privie's. It's a unique moment to do some huse cleaning!
By focusing on Gay at Harvard, you miss the obvious DEI execution that was prepetrated by Gay on Roland Fryer because his research didn't support the white police killing black innocents narratives at Harvard and others. They hung him out to dry because they wanted to censor his voice of dissent with the high priestess of DEI who was and is a uniquely unqualified pseudo-academic to lead an Elite uni like Harvard. She was openly and privately discussed by liberal white elites as their token success for DEI. Sure she got demoted, but it's hard to sympathize with an unqualified person who plagerizes her way into $900K/yr salary + 30% housing subsidy + tenured Professor benefits, etc..
In her seminal research, Harvard sociologist Devah Prager showed employers were more likely to hire a white person with a criminal record than a black person whose record was crime-free.
If anyone is unconvinced by the research of one of the world’s most respected social scientists, perhaps a real-world example would be persuasive:
Imagine a black man who behaves exactly like Donald Trump. Is he elected president? Twice? Is he even hired as assisted manager of a used car dealership?
In the same way corporations would maximally exploit workers if unions didn’t exist, without DEI, whites in positions of power will withhold opportunities from qualified non-whites.
DEI is only discrimination if you ignore the cultural context in which it exists. When you consider the context, it’s obvious DEI solely exists to correct for entrenched discrimination against non-whites.
This doesn’t means DEI is always executed well or in good faith. Just like some union leaders are incompetent or corrupt, so are some architects of DEI.
But DEI initiatives — like unions — are still a necessary countervailing force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/obituaries/devah-pager-dead.html
In her seminal research, Harvard sociologist Devah Prager showed employers were more likely to hire a white person with a criminal record than a black person whose record was crime-free.
If anyone is unconvinced by the research of one of the world’s most respected social scientists, perhaps a real-world example would be persuasive:
Imagine a black man who behave exactly like Donald Trump. Is he elected president? Twice? Is he even hired as assisted manager of a used car dealership?
In the same way corporations would maximally exploit workers if unions didn’t exist, without DEI, whites in positions of power will withhold opportunities from qualified non-whites.
DEI is only discrimination if you ignore the cultural context in which it exists. When you consider the context, it’s obvious DEI solely exists to correct for entrenched discrimination against non-whites.
This doesn’t means DEI is always executed well or in good faith. Just like some union leaders are corrupt, so are some architects of DEI.
But DEI — like unions — are still a necessary countervailing force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/obituaries/devah-pager-dead.html
I Never Knew is a brilliant tune. I got to play it with legendary bassist, Chuck Israels when we did a John Coltrane/Kenny Burrell tribute because there's a terrific version of that tune on that album.
You say that Claudia Gay appeared with two other Ivy League school administrators, but MIT isn't an Ivy League school.
*EDIT* You say that the reason gun control doesn't pay off is that the anti-control people are smaller but really really care and the pro-control people are more but only care a little bit. But when put on the ballot by itself, gun control measures underperform plain democratic candidates.
Maine was +3 for Clinton, +9 for Biden, and +7 for Harris. A proposal to require a background check for transfers by non-dealers was on the ballot in 2016, and lost by 3.6 points. There was no need for pro-control people to have to put other priorities first.
Jeff, what were you thinking when you came up with the first two systems for distinguishing old content and current commentary? Neither one works. Neither is intuitive.
When you play the old content, you are playing an old recording. The cue in should be a needle drop. The cue out should be a record scratch. Leave some pops and scratches in the background to indicate the old material.
Charles Nelson Riley glasses.
Listening to Tom Lehrer's "Harvard Fight Song" is worth the effort. What other song contains the word "albeit"?
I'm maxed out on Whig Party loving friends but I'm always on the lookout for more!
If the idea of the US means anything then Harvard yes is a locus of the idea. Its graduates started a lot of colleges elsewhere. As a Celtics fan and a Carolina grad, I believe just because people groan when we say yeah they are kinda great it's envy.