Oh maaan they released the first five minutes of Stripped to the kickstarter backers today and it looks crazy good. It’s the first thing I ever backed on kickstarter and it’s about an issue I care about and I am so looking forward to this.
Plus now I finally know what Wiley Miller looks like! Which is kind of a cross between a weasel and Doc Hammer.
"That’s getting to be a little too sexy even for me, and I have a good sense of humor about these things,” said Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, a former president of George Washington University who has publicly defended high salaries for professors and university executives. “That is entertaining, actually. I don’t think that’s prudent. I don’t mind paying someone a robust salary, but I think you have to be able to pass a red-face test."
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N.Y.U. Gives Its Stars Loans for Summer Homes - NYTimes.com
When SJT, the man who bought a bronze hippo while drunk antiquing in Rhode Island and then gifted it to the university because his wife wouldn’t have it in the house, of all people thinks that is a bad deal for students, you have a mother-fucking problem.
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I lovehate how career academics speak
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The Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga, is a waterbird of the warmer parts of the Americas. This species does not have oil glands for waterproofing its feathers. However when it is above water, it must spread its wings to dry in the sun.
The cockatoo doesn’t think the African Grey knows how to eat cookies.
Birdsplaining
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