Lyndon Baines Johnson
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- We're in San Marcos for the weekend. -OS
- Driving through the state park near Bastrop -- the stretch of highway where the opening scene of Bernie was filmed. -OS
- No.
- What we know of the life and ministry of Jesus comes from four books that are more than 1800 years old, translated many times -- but what is consistent: he lifted up the sinner, he chastised the self-righteous, and he warned the rich that their wealth was an impediment to love.
- The new pope. -OS
- Lady Bird captures the essence of how we feel about our students who are just ChatGPT in a meatsack. -OS
- Its not all glum. One amazing student. Just finished her thesis. Married at 18, dipshit husband left her at 30. Went to college to get hers. Voracious reader. Whip smart. Wants to be a sportswriter. (Her thesis is about pro sports and real estate, awesome). -OS
- Student sends a GPT'd email complaining about the grade for a paper that GPT'd. Want to respond "look kid, in this world, if you don't have money, and you don't have a brain, all you have to offer is your holes. And you're at this school, so you ain't got money." -OS
- This guy (Bob CatNamara) figured out how to open a latched drawer without Google or opposable thumbs. He is more intelligent than 99% percent of Americans under 30 years old. -OS
- Small data set. But in a group of 50 students there are only ever, at most 6 or 7 who've very clearly tried to do everything themselves without any AI short cuts. The only 6 or 7 A's we award anymore. -OS
- We've been teaching a long time. And in the last 3/4 years we've run into the first cohort of 18-22 year old who we feel, as a whole, are just worthless piles of shit. Of no value. Incapable of thought. Genuinely incurious. Highest use case is being ground into pet food. -OS
- Its beginning to make sense to us why these kids 18-22 also just don't have any relationships, or friends, or anything that's real. They don't know how to do anything that requires one human honestly interacting with another. What a worthless generation. Their idiot parents should be in Gitmo. -OS
- We've failed more kids than ever before this semester because of GPT. Second we caught it (it's obvious) stopped grading. Stopped wasting time. Roughly 35% of the students have failed the semester. These kids are doomed. Fully cooked. Little scammy pieces of shit. -OS
- We won't give the neocons credit for much, but at least their sick masterbatory fantasies gave them a firm grasp (ba-dum-tsss!) of WWII Chronology. -OS
- The end of the semester approaches. Which means were about to transition from... -OS
- We still frequently teach this book to grad students because it's aged like a fine wine. Richard White really got to the essence of who the "captains of industry" were and are -- vain, audacious, self-important, and lawless morons. -OS
- Porn. It was for porn.
- That's just a Tuesday night in Galveston, baby. -OS
- Sir, are you familiar with the phrase "suspension of disbelief?" -WJ
- Raised Disciple, LBJ never felt he needed to convert. Especially for his generation, the Disciples were the most eccumenical and liberal Southern denomination (that's still partly true). You could take what you pleased from other Christian teachings. Johnson liked Catholic social teaching. -OS
- Religion's value is in its moral universe. Which is why I've got more respect for a man who believes in nothing but has constructed his own moral constraints than some fuckin' Baptist or Congregationalist who's killed God and erected a gold statue in his place that votes Republican.
- Joel Osteen -- Mr. Chicklet Grill, whose smile would blind you with the high beams -- runs a church that's entirely bereft religious value, but unfortunately it's probably also the most integrated church in Houston. Plenty of non-white Southerners practice garbage religion too.
- I'm not Catholic, but I've often admired the Catholic Church, because of men like Francis. In the South, most religion is garbage -- garbage because most Southerners believe in a God who doesn't tell them "No." Francis was brave enough to tell the world that God isn't convenient.
- Easter poses from office cats Bob CatNamara and Lady Bird (they're hunting big fat Houston squirrels). -OS
- It's an open debate as to who's more stereotypically Texan here -- LBJ for proudly showing you a dead snake on a stick, or Lady Bird for striking a pose with said dead snake. -OS
- Easter 1966, LBJ and Lady Bird attended services at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg. Afterward, they found a dead rattler. Because, you know, it's LBJ, and it's Texas. -OS
- Lady Bird has no remark because she has nothing Christian to say about Mr. Trump. -WJ
- You know. It's been long past time to take the fucking guns.
- We also always use this picture, because it punches the kids in the gut. James Meredith, the man who integrated Ole Miss, tried to march against continued race hatred in Mississippi in 1966 and what happens? *HE GETS FUCKING SHOT BY A WHITE MAN.* -OS
- Doing our lecture for the freshman today on Civil Rights from 1965 to 1968. Start it with this picture. "This is August, 1965. In 2.5 years, one of them will be dead at the hands of a white gunman, the other will be smoking and drinking himself to death in political defeat." -OS
- Branch Rickey, the Dodger GM who brought Robinson to MLB, shared many traits with Lyndon Johnson -- a complicated racial consciousness, some real reasons to hate segregation, complicated motivations, and someone else could've done it, but he was the sonofabitch who did it. -OS
- Letter from Jackie Robinson to Lyndon Johnson, dated April 18, 1967. -WJ
- Paxton is the Republican dream. All the crime with none of the time.
- We designed a yard sign for Ken Paxton. -OS
- One of the perpetual cycles of life is that the Texas Oil Industry does well under Democratic Policies and yet them boys will always spend a shit ton of money to have Republicans rail them straight in the butthole. -OS
- The 5th.
