NAMING AND SHAMING: aamc.org

The Association of American Medical Colleges, the lobbying group that has positioned itself as the US med-school admissions cartel. Schmucks who teach biochemistry have to upload lots of letters there. It should be private and secure.

Just logged in and I am FORCED to change my password. Enforces dumb rules, including a LIMIT OF 25 CHARACTERS.

Also FORCED to adopt 2FA: which is limited to SMS.

I shit you not

#securitytheater #websucks

@Jaden3 The thing that radicalized me against cops, back in my 20s (1990s) working downtown Pittsburgh at night, was watching cops harassing black guys for no reason at all. Every night. Stopping and frisking, hollering and bullying. All rough like they were big tough hard asses, armed to the teeth, with the power of state violence behind them. Hassling teenagers just for hanging out. Daring them to look at them funny so they could shoot them for fun. Night after fucking night. Fuckn assholes

Two weeks ago I went to an Old Time jam. Two dozen musicians in a circle playing banjos, mandolins, guitars, an upright bass, a slide guitar. Teaching each other 200-year-old songs.

They gave me a literal block of wood and a xylophone hammer. I uncharacteristically ignored my terror of performing to cluck clock along. Transcendent experience.

Last night I bumped into a lady who was there. HEY YOU WERE THE GUY PLAYING PERCUSSION YOU WERE AMAZING!

It felt like I was Buddy Rich winning a grammy

OMG I WAS NAPPING AND I ALMOST MISSED #CATURDAY

Nah, no caption necessary, just a glimpse of the magnificently caramel-orange belly

Consider this photograph: Little Rock, Arkansas, on the morning of September 4, 1957. My own parents, in other states, were high school students that day. Living memory.

Note the primatology. A screech like a chimpanzee might make, pure aggression, part of our nature.

This emotion, hate. It is a potent mix of terror, rage, righteous indignation, and incendiary mob approval.

Our enlightened rhetorical questions about medium and long term consequences are a tragic category error.

@inthehands

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@ericg @evan A forty is a bottle of malt liquor, a shorty is a child or a girlfriend of small stature, and a sortie is a foray