A few thoughts on the assassination attempt against Trump. 1) The vast majority of Americans reject political violence—don't let anyone tell you otherwise (prlpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/Janu...).
I definitely assumed the weapons the cops "took off the streets" were being destroyed, not returned to the streets for profit. I don't know WHY I assumed harm was actually being reduced, but I know better now!
This concern is not *why* I adopted quizzes this year, but I can report: I said explicitly that lectures were meant to help students do and understand the reading, not to substitute for it, and that quizzes would be be about the reading, not about the lectures. On the first quiz of the term...
Luskin's "Robert's Rules: Suggestions for Writing" has some excellent, pithy advice for academic writers. #poliskygithub.com/soodoku/on-w...
At NPR... "I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other." Silence. slate.com/business/202...
The real story behind the public broadcaster’s woes.
every time i give a talk on how ppl understand democracy i end with this point: you've got a gnarly collective action problem bc weak party system has been absolutely nuked by entrepreneurial arseholes. the public is what the public is, which is okay-ish with some exceptions. fun equilibrium.