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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-23/campus-protests-israel-gaza-palestinian-humboldt-closed At Columbia, in-person classes were canceled Monday and the president asked students to stay home. At Yale, at least 60 protesters who camped at Beinecke Plaza were arrested after the universi...

Columbia University, an Ivy League university just north of Manhattan's upper west side, is closed. They're doing classes over the Internet. Reason is that the campus has been off limits since a pro-Gaza encampment was busted by police invited in by the administration about a week ago. It's not the ...

The situation is past the critical point in Los Angeles. This city is dying. There's no other word to describe it. It's third world. You can get diseases like typhus. The fire department makes 20 runs a day just to put out homeless campfires that spread into the piles of trash in their encampments. ...

The Civil War was economic. In most cases, you can't reduce history to economics no matter how hard you try, but this is one of the exceptions. It was completely about morality interacting with economic changes, making it finally possible to envision a world without slavery as a desirable alternativ...

Reverend Billy is a New York/ East Village hell raiser who had his first 15 minutes of fame for his Church of Stop Shopping, which would get him in trouble with the cops in the streets of Midtown every Planetary Buy Nothing Day. That became a lost cause, but he carries on with the Earthchxrch and a ...

Whatever happened to emergent naturalism? It was a very popular idea in academic philosophy circles a few eons ago when I was taking classes in the subject. The notion was that material processes such as the brain could create much higher level processes such as Shakespeare, that would take on a lif...

The southwestern quadrant of the solar disk, which we see as the southeastern quadrant due to the reverse angle of terrestrial view, is one big active region continuously spitting plasma into space. It's basically the solar system's largest blowtorch, with a built in nuclear death ray as well due to...

The word "socialist" lost all meaning when the USSR appropriated it. It used to mean something different from what it meant in Stalin's time. The fact that there is still a Stalinist fringe in US politics does not help the problem, but as Republicans like to tell us, it's a free country. I...

At least you get a dark sky. We need to rent a boat and go out 100 miles for that.

It would be far more effective to build a wall UNDER the southern border, and then there are still the oceans, not to mention the world's longest unfortified border up north running all the way from Seattle to Maine. Funny... the Gilded Age era that the Republicans so badly want to put us back into ...

Republicans must go bonkers when they see those specimens of the human embryo on display in museums. That's a moral and sentient being, oops I mean a potential major donor, in there, you know.

People are fleeing inflation. You check NYC rents recently? It's off the chart. Another consequence of Republican inflation, caused by bad policy during Covid (The Donald's watch) and the resulting supply chain failure (ditto). Exacerbated by the wars that Republican foreign policy contributed to. I...

Glenn doesn't understand. It is fundamental Republican policy that every fertilized egg is a moral and sentient being with a God-given right to survive. They get a lot of money from people who think that. It is also fundamental Republican policy that as soon as the baby comes out and the cord gets c...

We've actually backed off a bit from where we were last week, and one reason is due to off-camera diplomacy by the sane guys in the room. You didn't see it on the Nooz, but it's the main reason we aren't all worrying about whether there will be a planet to live on this time next year. Even the Congr...

Currently we have several sunspot regions that have essentially merged into one huge complex that has met if not exceeded Carrington size. Fortunately the super-region has not reached the same level of magnetic complexity as Dr. Carrington's, though if one looks in the right wavelength they will see...

> Human animals No human being is an animal. Netanyahu should shuffle off this mortal coil and take the WWII subhuman groove-thing along with him. Israel was founded on hope for the future and he turned it into part of the problem. Frankly I wouldn't treat any animal the way he treated Gaza. He wall...

Plenty of narrow mindedness on both sides. Hell, generalizations about people seem to be the currency of the 21st century.

Gonna get worse when the Paramount deal closes, though right now they're probably taking Vegas odds on who will be the other company.

I'm glad I don't write for the trades. It's a full time job just keeping up with who owns what and how much of it they own.

Seriously, I doubt anyone ever got dinged for picking up trash. It's technically an infraction but unless the shoot is on a studio lot things get considerably less picky in the fog of war. Then of course there are dispensations to speed up work, such as an electrician moving a cutter in front of a l...

I understand cutting corners but not when it comes to air travel. Talk about killing the Golden Goose. As for your take on motion picture unions. I don't know how it is today but in the middle 70s at American car factories if a Foreman were to pick up a piece of trash and throw it in the trash can ...

Russia lost the Cold War, but it's currently winning the sequel. Putin has the USA business establishment eating out of his hand. The sad excuse for a news media in the US are his unwitting foot soldiers. It's the most successful propaganda I've ever seen. It's created a world in which Americans fee...

The self-immolation was completely the result of conspiracy theories and their ascendancy in American politics since the coming of social media. This guy threw a whole bag of leaflets into the air before he lit himself up, and they were full of the usual racist Internet-driven ravings about those fo...

Yep. Guy just self-immolated in the crowd scene outside the drumpf trial. Never a dull moment this year.

I would imagine the Nooz can't believe their luck.

In its own quiet way, this country is even scarier than the Middle East.

That's how Ray Gun supposedly ended the Cold War. The calculus among policy makers who gave Ronnie his lines in the morning before his wardrobe/make-up call was that if we forced another Cold War, they'd run out of money before we did. This actually worked, but when we ran out of money the situation...

Quality matters in motion picture unions. The effect there is that every job on a set becomes very compartmentalized and you practically need a scorecard to know who to ask for what. However the unions all have training programs and they enforce rigorous quality standards, as one would expect in a b...