Heartfelt sympathy. He reminds me of our Lefty, brother of Pancho. As with the song, Pancho left us first; then Lefty, in late 2022. It still hurts.

But we now have Hercules (left) and Atlas (right) to keep us on our toes:

If you’ve not read it already, you might enjoy Tom Robbins’ *Another Roadside Attraction*.

Apparently, this photo was tinkered with to look more like Pamela Jo. Here is the original:

and not just synchronically but diachronically, as well (speaking as an old structuralist). From my earliest education in Los Alamos I was in ‘the post-Sputnik plan’, tested and guided and channeled into particular programs. Assessments (including timed) were continuous.

I agree they are often part of grading; I have my own long history of academic (mis)adventures on which to base that. Despite being schedule/due-date driven myself, though, I’ve always wondered how we got that way. I realize there is a whole ecology of competing desires and expectations out there …

An awful lot of ‘white’ in those images. I remember Henry’s from when I was stationed in Charleston (briefly) in the late 1970s. In those days, it seemed the only non-white faces in the place were the staff.

With each watching the act becomes more and more obviously blatant. He was spoiling for a fight.

Would love to see the whole video.

Ordered! Looking forward to reading it.

In all of my years in technical training there have been only a handful of tasks/activities the learning of which was evaluated through timed performance assessment. They usually involved extreme and often hypothetical scenarios with the potential for serious consequences.

I could be talking outta my hat but the idea that due dates are somehow part of assessment, and that they’ve “always been a thing,” seems uniquely ‘American’, arising at the point where education and industry come together in a commodity known as ‘the worker bee’.

Cf. 1960s and Sputnik challenge.

Agree, wholeheartedly. Sometimes a pint is just two times too much, unless you have a whole afternoon to kill.

Now … for a pint of scrumpy, one is never enough.

It was for many of us. For those for whom it wasn’t … WTAF?!?

When you see it for the niche – and, therefore, very limited – market it is, it becomes clear what is happening is money laundering.

YES!!

So, as rhetors – say, as a Pericles? – how do we frame our warning to the audience?

I’m still noodling that.

… not sufficiently motivated to read her apparent change of mind/behavior in the full context.

Advancing the conversation could take the form of … first, ‘determining the available means of persuasion’, given the entire picture … ?

I dunno. Shouting it from rooftops doesn’t feel sufficient.

It’s not about the intelligence levels of the audience. My observation was simply that the general audience is not attending to the whole situation about which they should be warned. You say they are motivated to see her as moderating her stance. I am saying they are …

I’ll see that when I believe it.

She’s as duplicitous as he is.