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Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told. he/him
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I've got a joke about Xeno of Elea, but I can never make it to the punch line.

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STEPHEN A: Mr. Speaker, I want to ADDRESS this issue. [SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIP BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I am sensitive to the Holocaust BAYLESS: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT!

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve got a joke about Thales of Miletus that will make your eyes water.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

You don't want the return of factories, you want the return of robust unions.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Anyone who has ever met faculty will instantly know “admin begging faculty to respect the rule that only allows pride flags to be displayed in a private office not viewable from a window” is practically BEGGING faculty to hang said flags *from* their windows.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I am also not a sociologist, but here's where I think we went wrong. A normal person's response to the two claims below: I should learn to talk to and appeal to women, like being put together or being a good listener. Masculinity Crisis Bros' response: Why have I not been issued my Woman Ration?

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Birthrate worry has *always* been about the “right kind” of people driving population growth. We could fix whatever “problems” exist about population growth by opening up immigration instead of shipping migrants off to concentration camps. The benefits would be *enormous* if we did.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

LOCK THEIR ASSES UP.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

You don’t want the return of manufacturing. You want the return of unions.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil are currently languishing in jail—despite the fact that they are not charged with crimes—simply because the ruling regime does not condone their speech or views. Explain to me how they're not political prisoners.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve become well known enough by my students for my anti-AI stance that in philosophy of science today, a student called out another student by shouting, “Hey, Jake, he’s using ChatGPT! Roast him!”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It’s considered uncouth to say *this* but as the parent of an autistic child, anyone who thinks a dead child would be better than my absolutely phenomenal, perfect child can fuck all the way off. I hope they all die in prison for the horrors they’ve caused.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments