Planet Ecaz
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Huge #Dune fan, Montessorian, former journalist, former union VP, tired. Always up for a TTRPG. Equally enthralled by #Tolkien.
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Me: (just standing on the playground, minding my own business, wearing a new plaid wool coat)
5-year-old: You look like a Florida person.
(And, no. I have no idea what that implies in this context.)
Me: (just standing on the playground, minding my own business, wearing a new plaid wool coat)
5-year-old: You look like a Florida person.
(And, no. I have no idea what that implies in this context.)
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Me: (just standing on the playground, minding my own business, wearing a new plaid wool coat)
5-year-old: You look like a Florida person.
(And, no. I have no idea what that implies in this context.)
Me: (just standing on the playground, minding my own business, wearing a new plaid wool coat)
5-year-old: You look like a Florida person.
(And, no. I have no idea what that implies in this context.)
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apropos of nothing I wrote a book a long time ago about how the DLC and Bill Clinton redefined winning for an entire generation of Democrats as "getting something done" through bipartisanship and compromise rather than achieving (or even having!) a specific outcome in mind, and, what do I know.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
apropos of nothing I wrote a book a long time ago about how the DLC and Bill Clinton redefined winning for an entire generation of Democrats as "getting something done" through bipartisanship and compromise rather than achieving (or even having!) a specific outcome in mind, and, what do I know.
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Me (to 3-year-old): Did you get any fun candy for Halloween?
3-year-old: I got some Milk Duds.
Me: Did you like them?
3-year-old: Well… (thoughtful pause) They aren’t as crunchy as carrots.
Me (to 3-year-old): Did you get any fun candy for Halloween?
3-year-old: I got some Milk Duds.
Me: Did you like them?
3-year-old: Well… (thoughtful pause) They aren’t as crunchy as carrots.
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Me (to 3-year-old): Did you get any fun candy for Halloween?
3-year-old: I got some Milk Duds.
Me: Did you like them?
3-year-old: Well… (thoughtful pause) They aren’t as crunchy as carrots.
Me (to 3-year-old): Did you get any fun candy for Halloween?
3-year-old: I got some Milk Duds.
Me: Did you like them?
3-year-old: Well… (thoughtful pause) They aren’t as crunchy as carrots.
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Three-year-old (upon seeing a butternut squash in our collection of seasonal gourds): Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash.
(After follow-up questions, the child was demanding the squash open the back door to the classroom. Why? No idea.)
Three-year-old (upon seeing a butternut squash in our collection of seasonal gourds): Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash.
(After follow-up questions, the child was demanding the squash open the back door to the classroom. Why? No idea.)
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Three-year-old (upon seeing a butternut squash in our collection of seasonal gourds): Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash.
(After follow-up questions, the child was demanding the squash open the back door to the classroom. Why? No idea.)
Three-year-old (upon seeing a butternut squash in our collection of seasonal gourds): Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash. Open, Mr. Squash.
(After follow-up questions, the child was demanding the squash open the back door to the classroom. Why? No idea.)
Every Sunday morning, I take apart and clean my CPAP. Every Sunday night, I hunt around the house for all the pieces in an attempt to assemble the saddest Voltron ever.
October 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Every Sunday morning, I take apart and clean my CPAP. Every Sunday night, I hunt around the house for all the pieces in an attempt to assemble the saddest Voltron ever.
Spikevax-ed and early voting today. Two things to feel good about.
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Spikevax-ed and early voting today. Two things to feel good about.
I can’t tell if I’m just really burned out or if I don’t want to teach anymore. I also can’t tell — in the case of the former — if I can fix it in a time horizon that makes the two materially different.
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I can’t tell if I’m just really burned out or if I don’t want to teach anymore. I also can’t tell — in the case of the former — if I can fix it in a time horizon that makes the two materially different.
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Me (to 4-year-old): What were you working on?
4-year-old: (pauses for a bit; lets out a big hiccup) I have hiccups so I forgot.
Me (to 4-year-old): What were you working on?
4-year-old: (pauses for a bit; lets out a big hiccup) I have hiccups so I forgot.
October 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Me (to 4-year-old): What were you working on?
4-year-old: (pauses for a bit; lets out a big hiccup) I have hiccups so I forgot.
Me (to 4-year-old): What were you working on?
4-year-old: (pauses for a bit; lets out a big hiccup) I have hiccups so I forgot.
When you really think about it, Dune is just a really, really future forward sequel to Lord of the Rings.
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When you really think about it, Dune is just a really, really future forward sequel to Lord of the Rings.
I got a perfect score from my CPAP machine last night. In the words of Dean Craig Pelton, “Jesus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer!”
Yup, I may have peaked as a human being last night.
Yup, I may have peaked as a human being last night.
October 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I got a perfect score from my CPAP machine last night. In the words of Dean Craig Pelton, “Jesus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer!”
Yup, I may have peaked as a human being last night.
Yup, I may have peaked as a human being last night.
Adventures in teaching young kids:
3-year-old: I’m going swimming tonight.
Me: Are you swimming with your mom or dad?
3-year-old: No. Old people can’t swim.
3-year-old: I’m going swimming tonight.
Me: Are you swimming with your mom or dad?
3-year-old: No. Old people can’t swim.
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Adventures in teaching young kids:
3-year-old: I’m going swimming tonight.
Me: Are you swimming with your mom or dad?
3-year-old: No. Old people can’t swim.
3-year-old: I’m going swimming tonight.
Me: Are you swimming with your mom or dad?
3-year-old: No. Old people can’t swim.
Adventures in teaching young kids:
3-year-old: I have a baby named XXXX at home.
Me: That’s wonderful. Is there anything else you want to tell me about XXXX?
3-year-old: She only eats boobie milk.
3-year-old: I have a baby named XXXX at home.
Me: That’s wonderful. Is there anything else you want to tell me about XXXX?
3-year-old: She only eats boobie milk.
September 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Adventures in teaching young kids:
3-year-old: I have a baby named XXXX at home.
Me: That’s wonderful. Is there anything else you want to tell me about XXXX?
3-year-old: She only eats boobie milk.
3-year-old: I have a baby named XXXX at home.
Me: That’s wonderful. Is there anything else you want to tell me about XXXX?
3-year-old: She only eats boobie milk.
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Student: I think you’re sensational.
Me: Thank you very much.
Student: What does sensational mean?
Student: I think you’re sensational.
Me: Thank you very much.
Student: What does sensational mean?
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Adventures in teaching young kids:
Student: I think you’re sensational.
Me: Thank you very much.
Student: What does sensational mean?
Student: I think you’re sensational.
Me: Thank you very much.
Student: What does sensational mean?
Adventures in teaching 3-year-old kids:
3-year-old: Do you have itchy teeth?
Me: No.
3-year-old: Yes, you do. And you have a baby in your tummy.
3-year-old: Do you have itchy teeth?
Me: No.
3-year-old: Yes, you do. And you have a baby in your tummy.
September 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Adventures in teaching 3-year-old kids:
3-year-old: Do you have itchy teeth?
Me: No.
3-year-old: Yes, you do. And you have a baby in your tummy.
3-year-old: Do you have itchy teeth?
Me: No.
3-year-old: Yes, you do. And you have a baby in your tummy.
Still making my way through 2019’s Cats. There’s a part where a bunch of cats — some of whom are wearing sneakers — spend like 10 minutes dancing to impress the Judi Dench cat. Just wanted to make sure other people are seeing this too and that it isn’t just me…
September 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Still making my way through 2019’s Cats. There’s a part where a bunch of cats — some of whom are wearing sneakers — spend like 10 minutes dancing to impress the Judi Dench cat. Just wanted to make sure other people are seeing this too and that it isn’t just me…
Can I please just get some #Dune memes in my feed? To quote the great Bonnie Tyler, “And I need you now tonight/ And I need you more than ever.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Can I please just get some #Dune memes in my feed? To quote the great Bonnie Tyler, “And I need you now tonight/ And I need you more than ever.”
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I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today.
by most liberal pundits
by most liberal pundits
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today.
by most liberal pundits
by most liberal pundits
What’s my headspace tonight?
Well, I’m watching the 2019 version of Cats because… it and I both exist, why shouldn’t we become one tonight.
Well, I’m watching the 2019 version of Cats because… it and I both exist, why shouldn’t we become one tonight.
September 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
What’s my headspace tonight?
Well, I’m watching the 2019 version of Cats because… it and I both exist, why shouldn’t we become one tonight.
Well, I’m watching the 2019 version of Cats because… it and I both exist, why shouldn’t we become one tonight.
Adventures in teaching 4-year-old kids:
Me: Some examples of liquids are water or milk or coffee…
4-year-old: Or bourbon!
Me: Some examples of liquids are water or milk or coffee…
4-year-old: Or bourbon!
September 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Adventures in teaching 4-year-old kids:
Me: Some examples of liquids are water or milk or coffee…
4-year-old: Or bourbon!
Me: Some examples of liquids are water or milk or coffee…
4-year-old: Or bourbon!
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We continue to, as DeLillo described once about Oswald, feel "the shock of unmeaning"
September 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We continue to, as DeLillo described once about Oswald, feel "the shock of unmeaning"
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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It is wild how confident these people have been for decades that they could incite chaotic violence but it would never be directed at them. Just absolute confidence that they held the fire hose and could point it exclusively at others.
A thing I wrote after that guy tried to shoot Trump, about our elites slowly realizing that their wealth and power don’t insulate them from the stochastic violence they’ve been gleefully encouraging or glibly eliding for 25 years. Feels relevant today.
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September 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It is wild how confident these people have been for decades that they could incite chaotic violence but it would never be directed at them. Just absolute confidence that they held the fire hose and could point it exclusively at others.
Violence builds more violence and the pendulum swings until the violent ones are shattered.
— Frank Herbert
— Frank Herbert
September 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Violence builds more violence and the pendulum swings until the violent ones are shattered.
— Frank Herbert
— Frank Herbert
My alma mater will never get another cent from me.
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Northwestern University president steps down after Trump funding cuts
The president of Northwestern University, a prestigious school in suburban Chicago, announced on Thursday that he would resign as the institution deals with budget issues stemming from cuts in federal funding by the Trump administration.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My alma mater will never get another cent from me.