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Quote from: Ancient Fellow on Today at 03:36:51 AMConsidering the sacrifices made by post grads and their families to earn a doctorate, especially in the midst of such a terrible economy and job market, I think the university's granting a doctorate to a friendly cat is remarkably tone-deaf.

I don't know that that's substantively different from most other honorary doctorate recipients, though. Here, the default is just some civil servant who's done nothing more than their job for thirty years.

Twelve pages today.

We had a dog at convocation yesterday.  We missed the opportunity to confer a Dog-ter of Canine Letters.

I'll see myself out.....

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 19, 2024, 03:43:36 PMSeems like a better recipient than most, really. And not likely to disgrace himself.

I agree! Sounds like he's been a valuable member of the community and has contributed quite a bit to the student experience.  And I don't think that anyone else will be grumbling about having been the one to truly deserve to be awarded a doctorate in litter-ature from the Board of Trustees of the Vermont State Cat-leges.

That better be one damn good pineapple is all I can say.

Quote from: ciao_yall on Today at 07:06:22 AM

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Quote from: secundem_artem on May 15, 2024, 02:39:21 PMSaw American Fiction last night.  Deserved the Oscar buzz and awards.  I'd be curious if Black forumites have a different take on it.  Certainly, white people in the movie were portrayed mostly as none-too-bright virtue signaling fools.

We saw this last night.  I don't have that frame of reference that you are asking about, but I agree it was worth the awards and other recognition.  It kind of reminded me of The Holdovers in a general sense of feel.  Not that the feeling was the same.  Maybe it's a movie type? A movie about life.  I knew what the main plot point was and completely forgot about it after getting wrapped up in a different part of the story (about his family).  Wright and the other actors brought a lot to this one for me.  My husband and I were both surprised afterward that so much of what we had heard was that the movie was good overall but that the ending wasn't? We both thought it fit pretty perfectly.  I think there was a lot that was really smart about this movie.  Some points were made a little more subtly, and some more overtly, but thumbs up from us.

I saw American Fiction on the flight back from Europe. Really liked it! And frankly, some white people can be clueless and virtue-signaling. I loved the scene where they were voting for the literary awards.

Also watched A Star is Born with Lady Gaga on the same flight. Now I want to go back and watch the original versions to see how they updated and adapted the plots.

Yeah, the part with the literary awards was particularly good.

We have the opposite with A Star is Born, having seen the one with Judy Garland a while back and needing to see the one with Gaga.  It sounds as though there were a few changes!

Good morning!

Got to genius with pangram so far.  Yesterday I got to QB and think my final word was oboe.

No luck on LB.  Congrats, ciao_yall!

Langue_doc, sorry to hear that you have been in pain for so long! I hope the appointment or even the fact that it exists helps you.  Doesn't that always happen?! Feel better soon!

Happy solving!

Quote from: spork on May 18, 2024, 11:27:12 AM

Quote from: Langue_doc on May 18, 2024, 06:37:15 AM[. . .]

You should be protesting outside the offices of our law makers (the governor and the NYS Senator) as well as the Israeli embassies (country and UN) in the city.

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But that would require taxi/bus fare.

From the NYT article "It's Not Just Gaza" linked above: "she connects the suffering of Gazans to the plight of other oppressed people worldwide." This person seems to be very badly educated, and I'd like to see whether she can locate Gaza or any other part of the Middle East on a map. It's highly ignorant to believe that every situation in the world that one disagrees with has the same identical cause. The attitude reminds me of an Al Jazeera program host's interview with three Americans that I saw a few months ago. One of the guests said "Revolution is the highest form of culture." Dude, you are completely clueless about what both of those words really mean.

I saw a recent NYT column by Ross Douthat which suggested that part of the problem was that students at these elite schools have essentially been taught that everything evil in the world comes down to settler colonialism and the like, and so they can only see world events that can be made to fit into that paradigm.  Hence their lack of concern about what's happening in Sudan, etc.

Good morning!

QB. QB yesterday.

Off to the physical therapist. It's been a rough four weeks, but now that I have an appointment, the problems have miraculously disappeared. The last pain pill I took was around 3 AM Sunday morning. Until then, it's been anywhere between two to three a day.

Happy solving!

Not sure whether to be amused or outraged at the extravagance.  Or maybe a combination of the two.

Now I want some (garden variety) pineapple....