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I know someone who works 24 hours a week stocking shelves (organizing things) for health insurance and some income, and earns the rest of their income as an independent scholar, doing research and writing books. I’d say go in with an eye toward plans B, C, and D for how you’ll navigate the academic job market situation, which might require getting creative (and doing adjunct work if teaching is your thing, which is a compromise in itself). If that’s not daunting to you and you get accepted and funded, there are worse ways to spend five years in your 20s and 30s.
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Me when nobody cares what I say thanks to my public reputation as a man too impotent and lazy to follow through on my own confidence schemes:
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Blessed is he that readeth from the Book of Klob
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Hornberger doing the Elmo voice
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HO
you didn’t build that, Brad
HEY
the new deal helped your dad
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Big time loser Ron DeMacklefewer has a problem!
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Jeffrey Epstein
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These are usually four different topics
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The Greeks give up a shipment full of drugs to their boy at the FBI in exchange for getting off their back on other stuff. Later, the same FBI guy gets word that Frank was preparing to talk to the police, calls the Greek, and Frank gets killed. Agent Fitzhugh at the Baltimore FBI office later pieces this all together and explains it to McNulty in a sort of “whoopsies, our bad!” kind of way. It’s frankly (har) easy to miss with so much else going on, which I think is part of what makes it so effective.
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I wish I did. I first watched it in my early 20s with minimal political consciousness and thought it was cool but didn’t really “get it.” Upon watching it again 10 years later, I see it as very much a show that set out to be about America, in the same way the Sopranos and The Wire were about America. The arcs of each of the main characters—Don, Betty, Peggy, Joan, Roger, Pete—are all peculiarly American and all follow different patterns, cycling between sin and redemption, that is ultimately synthesized, at the end of a decade encompassing Kennedy and King, civil rights and Vietnam, into the vision that Don experiences as enlightenment at the end of the show. I think that Betty and Don are the two poles of the America that the show is trying to describe: Betty the insecure, traditional, anxiety-ridden beauty dying a painful death, and Don the frictionless, impulsive, intelligent, self-reinventing avatar of capital. When Don gets home after Kennedy is shot and Betty is flipping out, he says “take a pill and lie down. I can handle the kids.” That’s the show.
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I love his character in Michael Clayton and I like to pretend it’s actually the same character he plays in EWS. He gets like two scenes in each film and kills it both times.
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Mad Men is so sneaky good in this respect. JFK episode is awesome. Bob Benson the gay spook is awesome. The fact that the main character’s nom de guerre is Boss Secrets, and his real name is Penis Whiteguy, is fucking awesome.
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David Simon is a big time lib but the S2 storyline about the Greek being a protected FBI informant is legit. Scorsese hits the same notes in The Departed.
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All the WSJ commenters are furious about this hit piece on their favorite news ogre
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One of his best and most memorable lines (“fix their hearts”) comes right after Denise tsk-tsks him for bringing the sexy young lady agent on the trip to find Cooper
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It was an inaugural award
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I like that this story could have happened in reverse when you were 5 and been just as good
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He was gay, Bertram Cooper?
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The slam of the receiver really makes this one land.
They’re saying that 16 out of their 20 students are having these issues, not just one or two.