Category: by Paul Jacob

Paul Jacob laughs, sighs, weeps, cheers, and jeers his way through the big stories of the week, from Shanghai (really bad news), Virginia (really good news), to the Twitterverse (good news plus a lot of gallows chortling).

This podcast covers the final week of April 2022.

A principal in New York was fired for (how shall we say?) a cavalier attitude towards actual teaching and learning. The point, as he saw it, was merely to pass students through — a scam to get tax money into his budget. He was fired, but given a golden parachute.

Cursèd be his name! (“Khursid” [xʊɾˈʃid] being the excuse for a pun.)

Paul Jacob covers this and other stories from the past week:

• Zuckerbuck Sucker Punch (April 18, 2022) — on rigging the last election.
• Looting Is a Bad Thing (April 19, 2022) — on Bill Maher.
• Principal Gets F and a Payoff (April 20, 2022) —on Khursid Abdul-​Mutakabbir, the wayward principal.
• TikTok Dox War (April 21, 2022) — on the Washington Post’s attack upon LibsofTikTok Twitter account.
• Four of Five Doctors Disagree (April 22, 2022) — California politicians schemin’.

Paul Jacob argues for allowing anonymous political speech and activism — in the course of covering the big stories of last week.

Paul Jacob gets new glasses and our weird and wacky world becomes a little bit clearer. Coincidence? Well, it’s Paul’s weekend podcast covering the big stories of the week, as seen through a lens, the lens being the ideas articulated on this here website:

Paul Jacob runs through the absurdities of our time, and gets hit with a theory attempting to answer why, O why:

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