Oliver North is going to be the NRA president? That Oliver North? This is hilarious. Do these bastards ever go away?

Trump fans are discussing me on one of their forums. I’d rather they didn’t, but what are you going to do. This is a state of mind that feeds on outrage, and fresh fodder is constantly needed.

Funny, silly people.

“Company culture” is the most promising of the concepts that are trendy in business these days. Look at what it can produce.

It’s clear this won’t be produced by political means. So I’ll take any alternative gladly.

At the playground, Klara informed a strange gentleman:

“I took my mommy to go potty. Mommy is a big girl now. She goes potty. She no goes into her diaper any more. Good girl, mommy!”

I’m glad I’m the age I am because 10 years ago I’d be mortified. And now I don’t even care.

The podcast on the Humanities and the job market is finally out. My episode still hasn’t aired but it will soon enough. Stay tuned!

The board last month narrowly rejected a proposal to take $5 million from Carbondale’s budget to give to Edwardsville. It means SIU Carbondale will continue with about 60 percent of the system’s share of state funding, despite having just slightly more students than Edwardsville.

This is not true, however. The problem is that they are bluntly refusing to give us our 40%. There is a conflict here precisely because they aren’t even giving us the 40% in spite of having identical enrollments.

Mathematics professor Marcus Agustin spends a lot of time inside the student fitness center, but he’s no gym rat. Agustin and other faculty have been crammed in the gym facility for four years while waiting for construction on new classrooms and offices to be finished.

Folks, it’s completely true. Our poor mathematicians have been stuck in these makeshift plywood boxes in the depths of the gym that they have to call “offices.” Mathematicians seem to have a great sense of humor that helps them deal with it but the gym entrails where they’ve had to be housed are shameful. The message this sends to students is that we don’t have a great respect for mathematics. And that’s wrong.

In America today, it’s all Trump, all the time. We’re collectively addicted to him. The nonstop scandals and outrages suck us in; they amount to Trump porn.

You see? They are delusional.

I can’t even remember when was the last conversation I had with an American about Trump. It wasn’t this year, that’s for sure. Nobody cares about these “scandals and outrages.” But reporters don’t notice because they project their crazy onto us.

At dinner, a recent arrival from Europe started talking about Trump in an outraged voice. Everybody else stared uncomfortably into their plates, coughed, and changed the subject.

Even academics have had enough of this silliness. I keep wondering, all these prostitute payouts, lawyers, collusions – who is it all for? What percentage of the population is following and has any interest? The people I know are more politicized than most and nobody cares.

At the gym today, every channel went on and on with this ridiculousness for an hour. And I’m guessing it’s not an especially crazy hour.