2016 in harassment
GOP readies swift ACA repeal with no replacement
GOP to punish filming on the house floor.
Professors receive emails from fake students asking about their courses.
Trump voters live in a crazy alternate reality
Post-election anxiety is real.
Things could be worse so don’t complain is a way to keep the oppressed down.
Hope is something you create.
Missoula Montanans put menorahs in business and home windows to show solidarity with the Jewish community after anti-Semitic rhetoric.
“It’s Ben and Jerry, not Ben and Mary”
The real danger of treating people with respect.
Do your syllabi approach gender equity? Do you represent the under-represented?
Katharine Hepburn’s brownies
I got this for Christmas.
A while back, DH and I were watching an American songbook documentary and there were these two black tap dancers who were more amazing than Fred Astaire. And we were like, who are these two guys and doesn’t it suck that we’ve never heard of them even though we have heard of Astaire. Turns out they’re the Nicholas Brothers and Fred Astaire agrees that they had the greatest dance number of all time.
Grumpy Rumblings (of the formerly untenured) 
December 31, 2016 at 3:01 pm
Ah, the Nicholas Brothers! I’m old enough to have seen “That’s Entertainment” in the theaters when it was released, and my mother gave my kid all three DVDs when she was a toddler. The kid LOVED them. I had the only four-year-old Esther Williams fan in town (and had to explain the racism and sexism of many of the clips…) Still fun.
December 31, 2016 at 3:09 pm
I’ve seen that’s entertainment but don’t remember them in it. :/
They’re in there, but I’m not sure what in.
December 31, 2016 at 3:37 pm
December 31, 2016 at 4:41 pm
That dance number is jaw dropping. Especially the end. Whew! Amazing dancers.
December 31, 2016 at 5:27 pm
Insanely amazing. Stupid racism.