Chief Academic Officer and Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives, State University System of Florida

Tallahassee, FL
Joined May 2022
This might be an all-time great in @nytimes' long history of knowing absolutely nothing about the world's largest religion.
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I remember my first Humanities professor in my first year of University saying ... "to really understand the humanities one really needs to study 4 texts very thoroughly: The Bible (Old/New Testament), Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, & Augustine's Confessions."
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Thanks to @DanHugger for including me in his Wednesday links this week!
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Jason Jewell retweeted
Few things are more sophomoric than saying early Christians were communists.
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It’s a mystery why this strategy didn’t work.
Some years ago, Finland launched this campaign aimed at educating migrants to not rape young Finnish girls. The rapes have only gone up since then. It is now an epidemic in the cities.
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Pretty sure this place was in an X-Files episode around the middle of Season 3.
Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.
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If everyone used footnotes instead of endnotes
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I could get behind these.
CNN’s @ScottJenningsKY Breaks Down His Own Executive Orders "Wear pajamas to an airport straight to jail. Take your shoes off on a plane. Jail. Involved in making Star Wars episodes seven, eight, or nine. Jail. Complain to your spouse after you say, don't get me anything. Jail. Put a sensitivity label on a Disney movie or Goodfellas. Jail. Too much cleavage at the inaugural. Jail. Stare at the cleavage at the inaugural. Jail.”
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Big if true.
I just received word Ross's pardon has been signed. I have not seen it yet, but this is what I was told.
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Merry Christmas from Kids #1-7!
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So, uh... There might be a ready made solution to this problem that's probably less than a mile from 90% of people reading this post right now.
There is so much latent need for low-cost, non-alcoholic, non-digital, in-person interaction.
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With public approval of higher education at record lows, the “demographic cliff” in college enrollment looming, and a red wave in the most recent election, writing an essay trumpeting the redefinition of your discipline in explicitly far-left terms seems little short of suicidal.
Strawman alert: "This shift reflects the transformation of the humanities from a purely aesthetic and theoretical endeavor into a discipline deeply engaged with the pressing social, political and cultural issues of our time. 1/ insidehighered.com/opinion/b…
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I wrote a brief response to Alex Petkas’s American Mind essay that claims the Great Books are for losers: open.substack.com/pub/jasonj…
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No one understands the national security state better than @ggreenwald . This interview is worth every minute of your time. I was shocked to learn about the recent censoring of the bin Laden letter.
Permanent Washington decides nuclear war is preferable to Donald Trump. Glenn Greenwald on the nihilism of our ruling class. (0:00) Permanent Washington Dangerously Misunderstands Vladimir Putin (23:06) We Are on the Verge of Nuclear War (28:11) The Concerted Effort to Control You (46:06) Intel Agencies, Blackmail, and Mike Johnson’s Shocking Flip-Flop (1:12:09) Has Greenwald Been Targeted by the Intel Agencies? (1:17:31) How Will the Russia/Ukraine War End? (1:21:03) The Pathetic Corporate Media Outlets That Influence Washington (1:30:32) How to Gain a True Understanding of Politics (1:53:02) Democrats Want to Censor You Includes paid partnerships.
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I see the Ugly American is still a thing in Europe.
Black American tourists cry racism because they want to deface monuments in Rome but are prevented from doing so by Italian boys. Why do they feel authorized to deface historical and cultural heritage of others?
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Good point.
I asked @elonmusk to put me in charge of cutting the Pentagon. And he said - what are your suggestions? I run the largest left-wing network online and a Democratic leader has NEVER asked me that question. The idea that they would take advice from a populist is disdainful to them.
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