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UW Struggle: Missouri Thinkblog Edition
So many people are writing about what is happening in Missouri, and rightly so. Many familiar contexts are playing out—what it means for sports, for universities, for protest and how quickly the powers...
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UW Struggle: “Efficiencies!” Edition
Once, after an amazing plate of sweet-and-sour pork, I cracked open a fortune cookie that read, “Soon you will shit yourself. Lucky numbers: 3, 9, 12.” I think back to this vicissitude of life not for...
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UW Struggle: The Outposts Edition
Faculty Outpost… buried and forgotten. I haven’t been blogging much because, well, I’ve said what I had to say and was pretty much right about everything. My nine readers got their money’s worth. (Hi...
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UW Struggle: Sage Against the Machine Edition
Sometimes those who exist to do nothing but tear other people down can do you a tremendous favor—they can remind everyone of exactly what it is we don’t want to be. And that’s the case with the...
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UW Struggle: Gong Show Edition
h/t to Alan Talaga for making a Gong Show reference on Twitter What if I told you that someone with responsibility literally brought a red button to a meeting? What if I told you that this person,...
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UW Struggle: The No-Confidence Man Redux
We’re going to ignore you, Fredo. I woke up today wanting to be positive, to feel like fresh-picked flowers and magnolia blooms. I’m reading UW-Madison professor Caroline Levine’s book on form, and...
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UW Struggle: The Bagman Cometh
The truth is most efficient when it is flexible! I’m going to keep this relatively short, which is rare. Why? I only have one point to make, and regardless of how this whole UW kerfuffle turns out,...
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UW Struggle: Goodwill Sucking
How do ya like dem fake statistics! Oh my god. So many ragamuffin rapscallions, so little time. Reminder of this blog’s two golden rules: 1) Faculty are always to blame 2) You won’t believe what’s...
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UW Struggle: The Toy in the Plastic Bubble
There are no contracts in my bubble Look, I don’t want to gloat, but if you look at my last post and compare the GB data with that for UW-Milwaukee, even PolitFudge is labeling Governor Walker’s claims...
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UW Struggle: Narrative Shift, or tl;dr
For the past few years I’ve used this space to be a reporter of sorts. I have reported on events, while also indulging my Carver-esque appetite for exploring how we talk about things. The results have...
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