"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." ~John Muir
Picture: Mount Rainier National Park, April 2014
NPS/Steve Redman photo
Picture: Mount Rainier National Park, April 2014
NPS/Steve Redman photo
04:32 PM - Apr 25, 2024
More shouting into the abyss about #books #Mexico #history #LatinAmericanHistoryMatters You need to understand Mexico, and to do that you need to understand the Revolution. This is the book that gets it done.
https://www.dukeupress.edu...
https://www.dukeupress.edu...
10:56 PM - Apr 08, 2024
Lina Khan's interview on the Daily Show was 🔥 on Monday. I just added a new name to my "you are so cool" in politics and governance list.
03:10 PM - Apr 02, 2024
I will vote Biden. However, to agree with every act that any politician does is foolish. You may win rights because of compromise, but you have to have the radical ideas that draw compromise from the opposition. You have to keep pushing, because the opposition does, too.
02:54 PM - Mar 12, 2024
You are not going to get enthusiastic responses to Democrats in national office by people who work in or have a relationship with Latin America. Not in 2024, not in 2016, not in 1992 ... and not ever in the future unless US foreign policy in the region changes.
01:26 PM - Mar 07, 2024
After nearly 80 years of dealing with blowback that is worse than the original threat, I would suggest a course change in the US policy of unconditional support for Israel.
I have shouted into the void.
So let it be done.
I have shouted into the void.
So let it be done.
01:06 PM - Mar 04, 2024
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I still like hair metal ballads as a sort of nostalgic flashback (I remember making dancing to this song in '92 kind of thing). Still, after 30+ years I cannot stand the aesthetic of it. The hair, the leather, the torn shirts, the makeup... blech.
I have shouted into the void.
So let it be done.
I have shouted into the void.
So let it be done.
04:45 PM - Mar 01, 2024
$$$ Class privilege is the most powerful of privileges. Very few in my profession want to take it seriously. Sorry, GOP, but most professors are terrified of Marx.
I have shouted into the void for the day.
So let it be done.
I have shouted into the void for the day.
So let it be done.
02:48 AM - Feb 24, 2024
Folks, Quit losing your minds if somebody expresses discontent with your favorite Dem candidate in favor of another Dem candidate. Your freak out and name calling does more damage to your candidate than your opponent's doubts.
I have shouted into the void for the day.
So let it be done.
I have shouted into the void for the day.
So let it be done.
01:26 PM - Feb 22, 2024
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As a married graduate student, right here is how we furnished most of our apartment for six years. The area around the dumpster was the "thrift store" where people left awesome stuff. That was 20 yrs ago... but looking at Google maps, it looks like the same is done today.
01:30 PM - Jan 09, 2024
Why do we need the humanities? Look at the new constructions on the majority of uni campuses (those w/o massive endowments). Soul-killing, impractical, mountains of cement, brick, and trash, there is no better sign that architects and engineers need some humanities courses.
12:14 PM - Jan 05, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
#DailyPictureTheme #Grace
Alma Gomez is a Texas artist relocated to the PacNW. I snapped this a couple weeks ago. Grace and beauty in generations in her art.
Alma Gomez is a Texas artist relocated to the PacNW. I snapped this a couple weeks ago. Grace and beauty in generations in her art.
11:13 AM - Dec 24, 2023
name a movie you've seen more than seven times with just a gif.
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Steve Marmel @Marmelname a movie you've seen more than seven times with just a gif.12:16 AM - Dec 24, 2023![GIF-Image]()
01:24 AM - Dec 24, 2023
Things are always political. What changes is the kind of political the thing represents, the way that different groups react to that thing, and the arrival of new people on the scene who translate their own lack of knowledge as a special gift instead of a chance to learn.
11:30 AM - Dec 20, 2023
If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone (or in my case, my PC) and don't explain it.
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Whoa! @WhoaPost a picture from your phone and don't explain it.02:50 PM - Dec 05, 2023![Target paper attached to a wooden pen with axes stuck in it.]()
02:53 PM - Dec 05, 2023
The victory of #Milei in #Argentina (hand in hand with the cult of Bolsonaro still bubbling along in Brazil) are ill omens of the illness of libertarian consumer individualism. The death of conservatism in Latin America has given rise to a freak child that García Márquez would be proud of.
02:32 PM - Dec 05, 2023
#LatinAmerica #latinamericanspoutible #LatinAmerica If you don't think of Latin America as a land of immigrants and place that attracts immigrants from around the word - think again. With the exception of Paraguay, inward movement to areas from Mexico to Argentina is up - but WAY up in Argentina.
01:56 PM - Dec 04, 2023
April 2023: Provost throws public pouty fit that the faculty are too anti-administration and that we have driven off too many provosts.
November 2023: Said Provost becomes third provost in a row sacked by the uni president.
I imagine uni leadership looks like...
November 2023: Said Provost becomes third provost in a row sacked by the uni president.
I imagine uni leadership looks like...
12:50 PM - Dec 04, 2023
Mitch #McConnel in his current state and the passing of #Kissinger helps me understand the leveling of death in a way I never quite grasped. These men worked their whole lives to gather money and power while leaving wreckage in their wake and it doesn't make them any less decrepit or dead.
02:50 PM - Nov 30, 2023
Check on your #HRC buddies - this might be a hard night for them with the passing of their loved one.
12:27 AM - Nov 30, 2023
Our library has academic videos for students to watch, and the ones about Chile between 1973 and 1990 have a disturbing title for organizing...
01:54 PM - Nov 16, 2023
My thoughts on fixing the Senate. I did write this before the 2020 census gave Montana a second house seat.
02:19 PM - Nov 03, 2023
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My wife dipping into the #DiadeMuertos pan de muertos and drinking cocoa in her Dunkin' mug. Boston person marries a historian of #Mexico .
09:44 AM - Oct 31, 2023
My favorite restaurant in Mexico is a Lebanese place in Guadalajara. Lebanese immigrants have shaped Mexico for 200 years. From their business community to influencing food (thank you for al pastor tacos!), their contributions are often overlooked by folks outside of Mexico.
02:58 PM - Oct 30, 2023
Autumn is the favorite time of year in this house. Little man reminds me of why I agitate for the things I do. Hoping the best for all of you out there this season.
12:49 AM - Oct 28, 2023
