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Below. Meant as satire, but true in life:
Paleo Republicans are a dying breed. They won’t be around long.
Who will step up and fill the void? Who indeed:
Elon Musk to spend $200 million on Midterms — Much of that in Texas
“…One of the tattoos is the first sentence in one of Virginia Woolf’s novels: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Woolf committed suicide in 1941 over fears she was losing her mind…”
How do so many mentally disturbed people get elected to public office?
“…I teach mathematics at UC Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students. By the second week of the semester, I already know who is in trouble. Some students are five to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school.
That is why this spring and summer, thousands of faculty members across all 10 UC campuses — including more than two-thirds of UC’s mathematics faculty — signed open letters urging the system to restore the SAT and ACT in admissions. Five Nobel laureates joined us, along with professors from across the university, including Beatriz Manz, Berkeley’s first Latina full professor…”
