Not only have there been two very pleasing SCOTUS decisions but also Putin called Obama to moan and whine about the sanctions. And who doesn’t enjoy seeing Putin grovel?

Here is a very good critique of the Black Lives Matter movement:

For me, right now, Black Lives Matter is nothing more than the upheaval of lament and therefore it does have its place. However that place is not as a movement, just a prolonged moment

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The whole post is great, not just the quote. I was part of the movement at my university  when it first started but it kind of fizzled out for the reasons the linked author analyzes very well.

So who do you think is worse, Scott Walker or Ted Cruz? I see Ted Cruz make the scary lizard – like movements with his head and decide he’s the worst. But then Scott Walker emits some new crazy sounds, and I feel he’s the worst. So I’m torn.

And who is your least favorite Republican candidate?

After a conversation with the banker this morning (“So you are on vacation? So you don’t work right now? So you do work? So you are not on vacation? Are you getting paid? So you are on vacation?”), I realized how profoundly weird it is it to work 8-hour days without getting paid for it. I just never thought about it this way before.

Since we are talking about getting paid, I got a 10% salary raise because of my tenure and promotion. And overall, my salary grew by $14,000 since I first came here 6 years ago. But compared to my salary back at Cornell (the Visiting Prof position), it only grew by $6,000.