Mark Doyle
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
- This is deeply troubling. OK is probably not the only domino that's gonna fall.
- Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. bit.ly/4tlEtUq #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
- Another day of incremental progress on half-a-dozen projects. There's a Paul Durcan poem called A Snail in My Prime - that's me.
- & tbh I've rarely felt so productive. My rule (in case this is useful) is to have each project in front of my face at least once a day. It can be 5 minutes or it can be 2 hours. Writing new stuff, tinkering with a word, whatever--I pull it off the back burner once a day, and so we inch along.
- People calling 9-1-1 on ICE. ICE calling 9-1-1 on people. This is such a depressing and important picture of what's happening under our noses. www.thisamericanlife.org/880/what-is-...
- Fun to see the right blaming the widespread & ongoing power outages in Nashville on DEI workshops at the power company. If they had spent more time preparing for heavy rainfall followed by freakishly low temperatures instead of having DEI workshops, we wouldn't be in this situation, etc.
