Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)

And, yeah: the corporations put their thumbs on the scales of all of the elections in 2024. They lost the Tories in the UK, but they got replaced more liberal governments with more conservative ones almost everywhere else. It really is becoming like a dystopian SciFi plot.

Maybe I am suffering from “the grass is always greener” syndrome, but it does seem that we on the left imitate the Liberation & Front & People & Judea Monty Python sketch much more often than does the right. They seem to be pretty adept at uniting behind the “Lesser Good” come November.

… probably affected only one swing state (Michigan).

How many more votes would she have lost? The idea that the Israelis are the bad guys started to become “popular” only after the election. And I wouldn’t be surprised if that is still a minority view in most of the few swingstates that actually affect the election.

That said, “those voters”…

“Vietnam: this time we win” films probably played a role in the big rightward shift for people born in the ‘60s.

That said, SNL did a great parody with the Norris-Stallone teamup “Die, Commie, Die.”

Alternatively, the cards were “woke.”

Why did Edward Murphy never get the Nobel Prize?

Very nice!

I confess, I use my own scripts for printing trees: but I have a very paleo focus to what I want illustrated. Still, I’ve used FigTree when teaching and I’ll probably use PearTree in the future.

I look forward to the first partridge phylogeny rendered in PearTree.

This likely explains why he got a majority positive reactions from the people who saw it: the audience was even more nonrandomly drawn from supporters than usual.

Cambrian Forever!

Someone needs to explain Vatican I to Homan…

… awful for his wife and daughter, in some ways I feel even worse for his very devoted cats: they'll never understand why he's not there. 😿

I am really sad to learn that Hans-Dieter Sues died this weekend. It was (insofar as I'm aware) completely out of the blue. I'll always be indebted to him for the support that he offered while I was at the Smithsonian: he probably saved my career going to bat for me.

And although I know this is…

That’s close to the proportion of Americans who feel that the wrong side won the Civil War.

Now there's a bar over which one can trip...

Didn't the Swedes and Russians play ping-pong with that region since before "Sweden" and "Russia" were really things?

My favorite is when 'friends' ask: "Where did you publish your stuff about XXX" from a talk that I gave 5+ years ago and that I still have not found time to write up.

Seriously, do you want to put more salt on your serrated rusty knife?

There are great Ordovician & Silurian fossils from all of them, so they must all be beautiful!

Heh, I don’t think that anyone has made “value” decisions based on ST performance since Jim Hendry got sacked!

Sieg heil, baby.

I envision it meditating with a mantra of “tree… tree… tree…”

I expect that one of the last headlines that I will read before I croak will be something along the lines of “Will this be what finally causes the downfall of President-for-Eternity Zombie Trump?”

The Woodstock 'generation' & its follow up (people too young for Vietnam or pre-Roe America, but old enough to get white collar jobs before Reagan) was one of the most liberal groups in US history. Their liberalism is dated, but they also helped fight for the rights now being lost. They remember.

Siri: show me a rhetorical question…

Only on matters that affect them financially, though. Everything that takes us closer to a Medieval Pageantry with Jim Crow rules will be fine.

Oh, and that demographic is the only one not giving Trump an unfavorable rating in the most recents surveys I’ve read.

Americans born in the ‘60s through early ‘70s have been well to the right of the people in the ‘40s & ‘50s since we started voting. Call us GenSuX.

Mutc’s law not withstanding, even Bush II would have gotten into big trouble for this.