Patrick Fessenbecker

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Teaching writing and ethics to engineers, writing a book on George Eliot.

A Pal's restaurant, with statues of a hotdog, hamburger, fries, and a soda on top of the restaurant.
a map showing alcohol consumption by county
NYT headline: “ this muscle is the unsung hero of longevity”
While I'm not necessarily a bucket list kind of guy I do keep a "Fish Finder" of places that I know I want to get to someday and its nice to check one of them off from time to time. The Wayside definitely lived up to its billing as one of the best and we'll likely take the trip down that way way again some sunny day. Overall, we highly recommend this Fish Fry and can die a little happier knowing that we've been there and done that.
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (1991) is a book by Robert K. Massie on the growing European tension in decades before World War I,
For Heidorn, technically, his two-word post was protected political speech. But in practice, if that speech can endanger students, districts can legally discipline or dismiss teachers without violating constitutional rights. But it's worth noting that he was not dismissed. He took the liberty to resign after pressure from students, their parents, the school, and the entire West Chicago community.
Roger eberts Review of fight club, which calls it a fascistmovie.
Westerners Seem To Be Really Fucking Gullible Did you believe the things I said about Indian society in the very first section of this essay? You really shouldn’t have. I can spin a pretty story about Hindu values and the deference we owe our teachers, but India is not a purely Hindu country, nor does its Hindu population necessarily live lives guided by the teachings of an ancient epic it would take aeons to read.
The world’s dingiest white t shirt
Bizarre axis claim that there is a "resistance wing of the Democratic Party dominated by Gavin Newsom."
Don Corleone: it was Schiller all along
Four quadrants, with work/play as one opposition and getting paid for it/paying for it as the other.
In the legend, Alypius, after standing upright for 53 years, found his feet no longer able to support him, but instead of descending from his pillar lay down on his side and spent the remaining fourteen years of his life in that position.[3] Roger Collins, in his Early Medieval Europe, tells that, in some cases, two or more pillar saints of differing theological viewpoints could find themselves within calling distance of each other and would argue with one another from their columns.[4]
Another thing that he doesn't mention is that kids are significantly less likely to kill themselves now than they were in 1988. If you look at teen suicide rates, like every other form of violent crime that we've talked about, murders and rapes and child abuse, it's rises steadily in the 60s and 70s, plateaus in the 80s, drops really quickly in the 90s, and then gradually starts rising again.
Richard Weinberg You know the impact on the environment by the way of these windmills? John Catsimatidis Tremendous impact on the environment. And besides killing the whales, they killed our ostriches up in Canada, because they’re mean-spirited people. I hate mean-spirited bureaucrats.
A passage reading: A 28-year old college educated woman, receiving $1,750 a month in government assistance, looking for work, and living alone with her two children while her husband was away in the Air Force explains “[My husband and I] haven't had jobs in awhile and I don't want to go back to living with other people. If we had another child it would be undue burden on our financial situation.”
A chart indicating that 40% of women who get abortions do so because they're "not financially prepared."
A clip from the Wikipedia page for Sprecher's root beer, revealing the awful truth that it is a LYING company using Wisconsin's German heritage to cover the fact that the founder is a LIAR from California who started the company in 1985, AFTER all the Germans in Milwaukee forgot how to speak German, and that his first degree wasn't even in BREWING but OCEANOGRAPHY, and there aren't even any oceans in WISCONSIN.
A passage from Leah Price's The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, on a fake quotation from George Eliot.
A google summary of what happens when you google "how old is Jolene," with one passage indicating an unrelated Jolene being between 13 and 18 years old.
The alternate possible outcome would have been Senate Republicans perma-nuking the filibuster. I personally think that would have been good, because the filibuster is antidemocratic and bad. But that means the shutdown calculus has reached the point of “once enough holiday flights have been canceled, the Republicans will have to nuke the filibuster to reopen the government themselves. And then, haha, we will have… gotten them to enact procedural reforms that, if we all really wanted them, we could have just enacted ourselves the next time we have a majority.” And yeah, as embarrassing and frustrating as it is to watch the Democrats pause a footrace to tie their own shoelaces together, I can see why this was just about the point where the squishiest Senate Democrats said “we’ve lost the plot. We give up.” What I’m trying to say is that this shutdown was always going to last until a handful of Senate Democrats got too uncomfortable and caved. Caving right now is indefensible. But it also would have been indefensible two months from now, after people starved and the airports mostly shut down and 60+% of the country was blaming Trump but he still didn’t notice because his brain is mostly soup at this point.
A post from Sharon indiciating she posts more than 100 times a day