PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
The apartheid state was basically a welfare state without rights. That's why Mandela acknowledged even Afrikaners were prisoners of the…
Clarissa on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
The welfare state without rights is the definition of a jail. These two things only work together.
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
I guess the problem is people are more likely to associate the welfare state with Stalin.
Clarissa on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
I'm a nationalist and I have acknowledged about 3 million times that yes, at its worst extreme nationalism absolutely leads…
Clarissa on What Should Academics Write About?May 19, 2026
This is truly the big question of our times: what to do when nobody finds you valuable enough to exploit?…
PaulS on What Should Academics Write About?May 19, 2026
In SA much if the discussion during apartheid was what to do with the capitalist exploiters. The post apartheid discussion…
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
Yeah, it's always been a cop out how nationalists refuse to acknowledge Hitler in the way that communists acknowledge Stalin.
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
In SA, the apartheid government was predicted in advance. The surprise was actually that they weren't as extreme as expected.…
Anonymous on Just So You UnderstandMay 19, 2026
Oh, we need a room-naming game, like the infamous "Boaty McBoatface" incident. I would like to rename this classroom CLARENCE…
Anonymous on The Toilet DilemmaMay 19, 2026
The Canadian government reliably informs me that women routinely have penises. Can't argue with that. Hence the urinals.
cliff arroyo on Just So You UnderstandMay 19, 2026
"drive everybody nuts with their demands to be assigned that particular classroom" Kids with toys. My first step in such…
Demotrash on The Toilet DilemmaMay 18, 2026
There are coed bathrooms with urinals in some parts of Western Europe (my parents encountered some while traveling decades ago.)…
random reader on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Technically, the case I’m thinking of was not a co-teaching situation either. Some people can get very creative. I really…
Clarissa on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
No, these are two completely different classes. This is not a co-teaching situation. It's more of a "people are trying…
Random reader on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Are they trying to get two for one here where they schedule two different classes in the same classroom at…
Clarissa on The Toilet DilemmaMay 18, 2026
People actually waste money on these weird setups. I really don't get it.
Clarissa on Quebec CityMay 18, 2026
Definitely the climate. The architecture, the layout. Some buildings are just identical. What a great place. I should come more…
Anonymous on The Toilet DilemmaMay 18, 2026
I was once at a fancy restaurant with transparent bathroom doors. But when you lock the door they supposedly went…
Anonymous on Quebec CityMay 18, 2026
I get it! It is the geography, the climate, and the general atmosphere, right? Or perhaps the food? And of…
oldcowboy3 on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
LOL, "...rather eat toenails..." Kid, for an academic, you are sometimes colourful ;-D
Clarissa on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
One of them is hoping to be hired full-time and the other wants to help her because she's his puppet…
Anonymous on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
No one ever considered flipping a coin in this whole process?
Anonymous on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Do the people involved have OCD, or are they having some kind of status anxiety wrt to the other party?…
oldcowboy3 on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
arses ;-D
oldcowboy3 on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Hmmm. well, I can see that a particular classroom could have some unique value to both, but the time? Nope,…
Clarissa on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
I'm very ready to cut somebody in half at this point, let me tell you.
Ed Frey on Just So You UnderstandMay 18, 2026
Sort of a academic twist on the story of King Solomon who proposed cutting a living child in half to…
Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
Oh, I forgot to put at the top. My comment was a response to Walnut's question/statement. "I’ll be interested in…
Anonymous on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
To be fair and this is coming from me. Hitler wasn't in Spain for the Spanish, or even really to…
oldcowboy3 on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 18, 2026
Later, Orwell wrote that he went to Spain as a journalist with an idea of fighting if he figured it…