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Hi hi friends. I was mindlessly scrolling Instagram the other day, as one does, and a clip from Debbie Gibson’s “Electric Youth” video popped up in my feed. It had been quite some time since I’d watched that baby in full. Which I immediately went over to YouTube and did, promptly forgetting whatever task I was procrastinating completing that led me to mindlessly scroll in the first place. I implore you to take a gander, you’ll be very amused.

Fred: True story… At a Cowboy Mouth show in Southern California my wife met a woman who knew some folks in the Jazz Fest office. She told my wife about their "Fred LeBlanc clause." Said clause stipulates that performers are not allowed to climb the scaffolding. If they do, there will be repercussions. It's good to know I've made an impact! Anyway, thanks to Quint, Rob, Liz, and everyone at the Jazz Fest Office for inviting us to the greatest party of the year for what will be our 34th year in a row!

In a world rife with conformity, George S. Schuyler stands as a beacon of defiant brilliance. A Black journalist of unparalleled wit…… …..a conservative commentator who sliced through mainstream narratives like a hot knife through butter; ……..a novelist whose words danced provocatively on the edges of the conventional, and an outspoken critic whose scathing critiques of racism in the U.S. reverberated through the halls of power, ……….Schuyler's views are not only  fascinating; they are a siren call to the intellectually curious and those who are free-spirited.

Image by L.E. Wilson from RedBubbleIf you haven’t seen High Anxiety (1977), directed by Mel Brooks, yet—stop reading this; there are spoilers ahead. Please watch the movie then come back for a play-by-play and deep level analysis of the greatest comedic scene ever put to film. Don’t ruin for yourself what may very well be the funniest sequence you’ll ever see in a movie. High Anxiety (1977) is a comedy co-written and directed by Mel Brooks about Dr.

The P4 workshop has now been chaired by both co-founders of Systems Approach, but this year the P4 landscape has shifted again with Intel’s announcement that Tofino 3, its flagship P4-powered switching chip, would not go ahead. There is much more to P4 than Tofino, however, as we explore in this week’s newsletter. The P4 Workshop was a couple weeks ago, and as General Chair, I went into it with a fair amount of trepidation.

One of the purposes of this newsletter is to promote awareness of political science and research into politics. In this edition, then, I’d like to talk about some recent research into videogames and politics I found interesting. Videogames are enormously, even alarmingly, popular. On average, Americans spend as much time playing video games as they do socializing (only 34 minutes/day), and young Americans spend a tremendous amount of time on games: about an hour and 38 minutes per day on average.

My coverage of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia continues with episode 7. “The Gang Goes Bowling” is a fitting penultimate episode to a woefully short season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: a return of some of the series’ beloved GOAT players and a virtuoso web of plot threads and character relationships. The episode hinges on the oft-used dynamic between Dennis and Dee, of Dennis being unable to stomach the possibility of Dee excelling at literally anything; so, he takes it upon himself to sabotage her, in part to prove that women are inferior to men.

Three weeks ago I ran across a very interesting traditional boat type, sitting on a trailer in a driveway just around the corner from our newly purchased house. I was smitten and I still am, even more so after doing some research—starting with Howard Chapelle. The boat I discovered is a Garvey; see Photo #1 above. History tells us that an Englishman named Gervas (Jarvis) Pharo came to North America in 1703 and settled in what is now New Jersey.

SHORTEST WAY HOME: Pete Buttigieg is slated to return to Indiana next week, his first visit here since last April, and is expected to make stops at bipartisan infrastructure law projects in Gary and Elkhart on Wednesday and in Indianapolis on Thursday, according to a spokesperson. In her first public remarks about a possible challenge of Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita, former Democratic Secretary of State candidate Destiny Wells confirms she is weighing a bid.