This episode, like many others from The Twilight Zone, is an excellent resource for teaching about the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism in the US History survey. Students really get a lot out of it and (sadly) are well aware of how fast finger-pointing can escalate.
This episode, like many others from The Twilight Zone, is an excellent resource for teaching about the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism in the US History survey. Students really get a lot out of it and (sadly) are well aware of how fast finger-pointing can escalate.
I’m showing my 2000s class the episode where he revisited NOLA a couple years after Katrina. Figured they could have some hope and laughs.
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made" is what comes to mind here.
“Look man, the ultimate goal is colonizing Mars. The moon was in our way!” -Pete Hegseth, probably
You are not. The 2003 invasion is sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
Hey you can’t assassinate or kidnap leaders of sovereign nations just because they are bad.
Feel like this needs to be said
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
Having a tough day, but Paddington 2 was on when I got home. Things are starting to look up.
Bill Simmons and The Ringer staff are about to have a seizure
screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight
Masterful Troll, TCM.
A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”
In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work
Started off this lovely Monday morning by getting into a fight with the copier. It won.
The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.
But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.
newrepublic.com/post/206857/...
*Taylor Sheridan pulling a slot machine arm*
"Ok, we got... Kurt Russell... as a... Fire Chief in... Paducah, Kentucky"
Paramount Exec: Sure whatever, here's $40,000,000.
All of our parents: Prairie of Flames is the best show on TV
I teach the freshman US History surveys. I mentioned Steinbeck and Wright when we covered the Depression. Not a single hand went up (across two classes!) when I asked if they read The Grapes of Wrath or Native Son.
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing 21, 1976
Damn
If we’re talking about celebrity Olympic enthusiasts, I am far far far more fond of Flavor Flav than Snoop.
Robert Duvall and Mary Badham in To Kill A Mockingbird
Damn.
Sunday February 15 OSCAR GOES BAD (CRIME) 7:00 AM Little Caesar (1931) 8:30 AM The Letter (1940) 10:15 AM Key Largo (1948) 12:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944) 2:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951) 4:00 PM Rear Window (1954) 6:00 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 8:00 PM White Heat (1949) 10:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967) 12:30 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 2:45 AM Shaft (1971) 4:45 AM The Window (1949)
TCM’s schedule today is a murderer’s row of classics. Pun intended.
15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
