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Feeling almost overwhelmed with dread and self-hatred this morning. All the makings of a fun day.

These Looney tunes are giving us two responses to the news about the kidnapping plot of the Michigan Governor: The kidnappers were actually leftist anarchists (no), and the kidnappers were at least justified in theory if not in specific practice because that terrible b**** was taking away people's ...

Another good history podcast is Professor Buzzkill. And Mike Duncan's "History of Rome" and "Revolutions" are also great. I've listened through History of Rome and Revolutions. I tried looking up Professor Buzzkill a few weeks ago, but I never added it to my subscriptions. I can...

Maybe that's correct--maybe there were no folklorish mentions of the monster until people began to "remember" them after 1933. That's not what I've heard, but history has a way of being revised retroactively.

Did you get the stuff about Heyerdahl and Rapa Nui from "Our Fake History?" I love that show! Yes! And... me too! I finished off all of The Constant, and now I'm listening to Our Fake History in reverse order. It's amazing. Another good history podcast is Professor Buzzkill. And Mike Dunc...

There were folktales in Scotland of a monster in the loch, so the St Columba story isn't the only old reference to it. I suspect that the older stories were vague and contradictory, but they were there.

Did you get the stuff about Heyerdahl and Rapa Nui from "Our Fake History?" I love that show!

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My students' first big project was due today. And less than half of them submitted work. Of those, a sizeable number plagiarized.

Press Secretary and 2 of her deputies have tested positive.

It really does seem to becoming "The Masque of the Red Death."*

*I wish I'd thought of that description, but I stole it.

One of my biggest ethical dilemmas as a teacher is repeatedly telling students that if they work hard at something, they can be whatever they want. I want the students to work hard and succeed, but I also know that most people end up in the same socieconomic status as their parents. Social mobility ...

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I hate to debunk you, especially about a conspiracy theory, but there are stories about the Loch Ness Monster before 1933. Saint Columba saw it in 565--in fact he saved someone's life abjuring the monster--and there are other Scottish stories about something mysterious in the Loch. The modern versio...