Author: Paul Campos

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Rainbowland

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On March 29, 2023
Melissa Tempel’s first grade class at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, has spent weeks preparing for its upcoming spring concert. Tempel and her co-teacher, dual-language instructors at the school, wanted the concert to have a theme of world unity and peace. Among the songs they selected: “It’s a Small World,” sung in Spanish, and “Here […]
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Any “system” (1) only works when a critical mass of people want it to work; (2) is going to reflect the underlying currents and divisions among the population. Our system was broken as soon as the GOP polled their own voters a month or so after the insurrection and decided to jump on the bandwagon—and […]

On the edge

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On March 26, 2023

This is a post about how things can fall apart quite quickly. I’ve got nothing systematic to say here; I’m just noting some impressions about a series of events that are either unconnected

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Nothing captures the combination of weirdness and evil that is right wing politics in America in 2023 than the bizarre campaign against Anthony Fauci and the Covid vaccines. The right wing media is full of stories and tweets about how the vaccines “failed,” which even by the standards of the alternate reality found inside the […]
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Gordon Moore, who predicted 58 years ago that the number of transistors in an integrated computer circuit would continue to double roughly every two years into the foreseeable future — this prediction turned out to be correct, which means that the number of transistors in a circuit increased by one-trillion fold between 1955 and 2015 […]

Contempt of Court

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On March 24, 2023

This is a followup to this morning’s post on the Stanford Law School/Kyle Duncan controversy. On Wednesday, SLS’s dean, Jenny Martinez, sent a ten-page letter to everyone at the law school

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