Assistant Professor @UTKnoxville; @USC alum; vegan 🌱; regulation, law, business & politics; free inquiry, free expression, viewpoint diversity
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Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
"There are many different grammars, all useful and valuable, but I assume you're talking about SAE (Standard Academic English)."
This is how the head of the writing program replied to a colleague of mine at a big state school when he asked whether a proposed new "Composition" course would teach basic grammar. Of course there are various dialects of English with their own grammatical peculiarities, but the impulse to virtue-signal about how "useful and valuable" they are, when the question is obviously about Standard English, is hilarious and precisely why everyone finds these people insufferable.
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PQME will always be legendary. 🤍
#CelineDionParis 🐐
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
20 years ago today Céline added “River Deep Mountain High” to her Las Vegas show “A New Day…” For the final year of the residency it became one of the highlights of the show. 😍
The show remains the highest grossing residency of all time.
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
Whatever our views on data centres, I hope we can all agree on how funny it was to photograph her next to the abandoned shopping mall as if it's some lush forest that has been saved from destruction.
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
“Hint of Lime” is an astonishingly dishonest name for a tortilla chip that tastes like it was manufactured during an industrial accident at a lime processing facility
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
Tennessee has the most wins over Top 6 opponents IN THE COUNTRY.
The Vols account for 34% of all wins over current Top 6 teams.
NO ONE has a better resume against ELITE competition.
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
I would have almost no idea how to write the second essay, especially as a teenager, because the quote does not really mean anything.
KHive this week, probably: "and the captain of the Titanic deserves another chance too, while you're at it"
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Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
Lot of academics woke up today feeling relief at the prospect that they won't have to reform higher ed after all.
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
One way the Israel Lobby works on massively ignorant U.S. politicians is through a kind of sunk emotional cost. Stevens (like Biden) owes most of her foreign policy acculturation to the Lobby, to the point that deviating from it really would have injured her deep sense of self
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
This is a suicidal idea, but is probably what will happen.
Higher ed will ignore the trust deficit it has accumulated among the public and retreat into itself. Just because Trump's terrible policies do not make the underlying problems less severe.
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
Hannah Einbinder shares her impression of Haley Stevens as she promised to do via Instagram story.
Can someone at CNN please tell @DanaBashCNN that when election results are say 51-48% that you don’t say “Candidate A is leading by 51% and Candidate B is trailing by 48%”? It’s driving me crazy and it’s such a weird error??
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Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
This woman does the best impression of Claire Danes and at first, I thought it WAS Claire.
Here she is, reacting to the lettuce scare.
Jordan Carr Peterson retweeted
When the greatest predator biologists of the west, some of the brightest American scientists alive, worked to successfully restore wolves/remove them from the ESA, lawyers for “the groups” fought to prevent that from their Logan Cir brownstones. Now, people dislike the ESA.
You work hard to get your law degree. Your friends are mostly going into Big Law where they start out making $350k to help corporations rip people off. You want to make the world better, not worse, so you get a job at NRDC, making $70k to protect people and places from pollution. Then you see Matt Yglesias—the guy who cheered on the Iraq War and defended Biden’s senility and said the people of Minneapolis shouldn’t have protested ICE—use Halloween to argue that you’re the problem with our politics.
Spooky, indeed!