Ah yes, academia is famously free of Nobel prizewinners
Cliff notes: Professor Pflugfelder taught at Columbia for 28 yrs. Was just trying to enjoy retirement & bingewatch Shogun. Got interrupted by police who he filmed from his own home/block. Arrested and jailed. One of the may “non students” the cops want us to believe were “outside agitators”
The professor had just finished his last class to end a 28-year teaching career at Columbia University. Then police arrested him outside his home.
Ah, yes, that thing that no student would ever think of using--a book.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that this bill that is a dream come true for those hoping to weaponize a particular antisemitic trope may fail bc it could possibly prevent others from weaponizing a different antisemitic trope www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/u...
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, said the legislation could make it illegal to assert that Jews killed Jesus, punishing Christians for “believing the Gospel.”
seems really cool that as a Jew I am now an anti-semite if a white nationalist christian fundamentalist says I am
If your anti-bigotry bill has bipartisan support, and one half of those supporters are self-proclaimed, full-throated, unashamed white supremacists, maybe you should ask yourself if your bill is actually anti-bigotry.
How many Jews will be officially labelled and punished as antisemites by this ridiculous law? Also it is so clearly unconstitutional that even those paragons of intellectual honestly on SCOTUS who call themselves “originalists” will have trouble upholding it.
As a resident of Abu Dhabi, my immediate thought is so that everything inside the car doesn’t liquify.
Weird Al now calls himself “America’s premier cultural anthropologist.” I’ll allow it.
Some public musicology for your Wednesday afternoon. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
The composer would have likely have embraced the sound of discord.