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False Flags in the meantime of Iran-USA talks have Israeli Smell
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Jack Turner
The relationship between Iran and the United States has been perhaps the most complex case in the history of world diplomacy. Even the case of negotiations and relations between the United States and China has not been so complicated and confusing.
The case of the claims and considerations of this relationship is no longer limited to the two countries, and many actors with different motives have been directly and indirectly, overtly and covertly involved, in a way, even this case has entered into controversy and rivalry between groups and internal factions of countries.
With Trump gone, neither Iran nor the United States, but the Saudis, Israelis, Europeans, and all the actors on the international stage are waiting to see what decision the Biden government and Iran will make for JCPOA, starting new round of negotiations or processing the previous negotiations. Undoubtedly, the Iranian opposition, like the Saudis and the Israelis, will do their best to prevent the past situation from taking shape, and at least, and the current situation will remain silent, so that in the next presidential election, they will have better conditions to implement their plans. In contrast, Iran and Europe are doing their best to change the situation before Trump takes office.
In the midst of a breathtaking time when all the actors in the Iran-US relationship were looking for the first signs of the future status of the case, the interview of Daniel Benaim, a member of the Democrat party who had a history of collaborating in negotiations, was published on Jacobin website and were republished in other websites, and almost everyone who followed the Iran-West negotiation process for any reason focused on the article so that they could use it to analyze the future. All readers of the website concluded that Biden's foreign policy team sought to assess Iran's reaction to the proposals for future negotiations, but what surprised analysts was a part of an article attributed to Daniel Benaim stating that the United States was ready to raise the issue of MEK as a negotiated option and move members of the group, who recently moved to Albania, to Eritrea in Africa to prove their friendship.
Undoubtedly, in recent years, Iran has formally and unofficially stated that its main issue is the lifting of sanctions promised in previous negotiations, and it is unlikely that the MEK will have such credibility and status that the United States would have imagined that it would be provocative for Iranian officials to put it on the negotiating table. Therefore, these two points came to mind that either a new issue has been reopened in the case or there are issues behind the publication of this article.
At first, the authenticity of the article was questioned, that by a surprise it was fake and it revealed that the person, organization or government that had attempted to publish the news had published the interview under the name of Daniel Benaim by falsifying the address of Jacobin's website. Although no US or Iranian official has yet commented on the matter, and it has not been interesting or provocative for the Iranian press to cover it. I could not get a response from US and Iranian officials, but with insistence, I was able to establish contact with a former member of the Iranian diplomatic official who works in the Council of Foreign Relations of Iran and receive an interesting answer. In his opinion, this was done by the Israelis or the Saudis.
According to this retired official, it does not matter to Iran whether the MEK stays in Albania or transferred to Eritrea, Angola, Riyadh or the heart of the New York, it is important for Iran to achieve the previous negotiating demands, he believes that it is the Israelis who want to make negotiations useless and stop Iran's demands by raising false and absurd issues. Although Iran's foreign policy team may be able to take action on the individual or organization or government that appears to have fabricated the news, it shows that all other parties are seeking to influence the future talks in any way possible.
Fake Jacobin's article showed that what would occur won't happen behind the negotiating table, but it will happen by hidden games in which not two but more than seven players are moving pieces in this worldwide chess game. Journalists and media activists have no choice but to wait for the future.
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Post here if you are actively playing Reaper of Souls and want friend invites.
Because I will stab you.
Christ, Stabbitha is probably one of the best gaming names I've heard in a while.
How have I never heard it!
Those guys who dress up like ghosts?
Bat Country <f13> tag. Ask someone on your friends list to invite, they should all have rights.
I really didn't want to start this addiction again, but whatever.
Thorgrim#1313. I'm already in another clan, but happy to play with whoever.
Oh, I see that he's been invited to clan - I thought I had to do something. Nevermind!
I just invited a friend of mine to the clan - his name is Frogface - in case anyone is wondering.
Yeah, I don't get the number on the end.
How do I get added to F13 clan? I submitted a request in game but am not sure if there is anyone to get that?
All members have invite privs so someone just has to throw you an invite. There aren't a lot of peeps playing these days, however. I'll try to throw you an invite next time I log on.
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Where It's Still Ten to Five
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Raffaele says those home for the summer never order water at Il Fosso. Instead they ask for empty bottles and take them out to the spring where the water comes cold and sweet. He says it reminds them of their former lives.
He says in the evening serpents glide across the road, that there's snow in winter, that here it's not people you meet but characters.
In the Beginning There Was an Unpaid Editing Job in Cleveland, a Potential Lawsuit, and a Bunch of Unprovoked Angry Geese
By Greg Boose
I'm standing and painting gravestones as weird red squares, twenty yards from where the coffins of President James A. Garfield and his wife (name?) lie in the gray basement of the Garfield Monument, and I'm thinking about how much I hate my banking job.
I'm thinking about how I kinda love ATMs because they keep customers out of my bank, but at the same time how I hate loading them with cash in the mornings.
If I Had Feathers I Would, Like, Totally Ruffle Them
By Zoe Brock
I've just moved.
Not just houses, but cities and entire lives. It's exciting and new, a bit like the theme song from the Love Boat, but with no Gopher, no dancing girls and no stopover in Rio.
For posterity's sake I kept a bit of a journal of my first week in San Francisco and have decided to share it as a peek into the inner sanctum of my life. I'd call you all voyeurs for reading, but in actuality I'm just a hideous narcissist who wants to show you photos of my closet.
Tuesday, July 1st- DAY ONE
Arrive from Sydney, Australia to new home found and rented on Craigslist. A home I have never actually seen yet in person, with room-mates I've never actually met. Feel a tad apprehensive but filled with hope.
Arrive at house with five suitcases, tired from an exhaustive flight spent trying to ignore the surreptitious hand jobs being given (and received) in the seats next to me (by two randy college-age fucktards from Arizona who obviously felt the need to join the mile-high club and were too lazy/ignorant/selfish to do so in the bathroom like normal people) only to discover that the keys left out for me do not work in the key hole provided.
Have moment of extreme near-meltdown and decide to sit in the driveway in the sun and relax until a solution presents itself. Discover the word "peace" written into the concrete of said driveway and realize everything will be fine.
Wednesday, July 2nd- DAY TWO
Work. Jet lagged. Fall over a lot. Laugh. Walk home from work jingling keys in pocket and feel really peaceful and a bit like someone has given me a Roofie.
Go pick up gift of beautiful old electric guitar. Stare at it a lot and wonder what the fuck to do with it. Shrug and smile.
Thursday, July 3rd- DAY THREE
Try to do stuff. Jet lag bites ass and bed prevails. Unpack clothes into walk-in closet(s) and feel conflicting emotions of joy and disgust at how many useless dresses I own. Love closet. Hate self for loving closet.
Friday, July 4th- DAY FOUR
Cognizant at last.
Spend the evening of July 4th rearranging my kitchen and nesting (insert chicken noise) (lay egg) (peck at floor) (eat bug) (ruffle feathers) (shit) (squawk).
Cook my favorite pasta- see recipe below- leaving enough for my lovely environmental lawyer room-mate to eat when she comes back from work (because if you're looking after Mother Nature's business someone else has to look after you).
Open the doors to the freezing Summer night and let the recently relocated New York City cats out onto the balcony. With wide eyes they sniff the strange fresh air. I sit with them and mutter and coo "reassuring" noises but they pay me no heed.
Put some Bob Dylan on and folk around in the kitchen cupboards for a bit.
The sound of the fireworks echoing between the hills in the deep fog sounds like the wild west. I feel like I've been transported back to the Civil War. I've never actually heard any canon fire before, but a big fucking boom is a big fucking boom, right?
Saturday, July 5th- DAY FIVE
Get kidnapped in Vanigan and transported to Point Reyes for fresh oysters on the beach. Learn three chords on an acoustic guitar and arrive home happy. Stand outside my pretty house and stare at it a bit before going inside and passing out.
Sunday, July 6th- DAY SIX
HEAT WAVE! Discover concrete slides. Yes, I said CONCRETE SLIDES. Take friend up to top of park at end of street and force her to sit on a raggedy piece of cardboard and project herself down the steep incline. She screams really loudly. Success! Pick plums from the overhang and discuss plans for potential bourgeois-neighborhood anarchy. Pick flowers from other peoples yards as a build-up to said anarchy. Lie in sun and get sunburned ass. Spend evening itching ass in front of people and enjoying their reaction.
Monday, July 7th- DAY SEVEN
Go and pick up key for share car, tune guitar and wonder exactly how many more chords there actually are. Laugh at self. Play with cats. Hang hummingbird feeder. Curse rude hummingbird that ignores feeder. Pick some plums and go to work.
Realize, on way to work, that I have never felt more at home in any city anywhere, despite the fact that I know few people at all.
Grin.
Recipe for Zoe's favorite summer pasta- (for her mom who needs to learn how to make it again)
About 8-10 Green olives, marinated in plain oil NOT vinegar. diced
1 tbsp Capers, in salt not vinegar either. Yuk. squished
1 clove garlic. finely chopped
2 fresh chili's. finely chopped
3 zucchinis sliced very thin lengthwise. potato peeler works well.
a couple of big handfuls of arugula
1 large tuna steak, sliced thinly OR 1 can of ITALIAN or AUSTRALIAN* tuna in olive oil, drained.
*This is important. American tuna is revolting. Italian will cost you, but it's worth it, it tastes like fresh tuna steak not cat-food.
sea salt and cracked pepper to taste
a dollop of butter
a splash of olive oil
1 chunk of imported parmigiana – grated
1 packet thin spaghetti
lots of red wine to drink while you're cooking.
Lightly saute the strips of zucchini in a small bit of olive oil and remove from pan.
Throw the olives, capers, chili and garlic in a small frying pan, on low heat, in enough olive oil to have them simmer but not swim. You'll figure it out. I believe in you.
While they are slooooooowly infusing the oil with their tasty goodness put a large pot of water on to boil. Throw salt in to pot. Do not waste your olive oil in the water (common misconception). When it boils put in pasta.
Add the tuna and lemon juice. Let it sizzle for a few minutes.
Add butter, zucchini and arugula. stir long enough for the arugula to wilt a little. Salt and pepper the fucker.
When pasta al dente remove from stove, drain and throw over the fishy stuff. Stir it all together. The pasta should be coated in oil lightly, not drenched in it. Add extra lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Serve with parmigiana all over it.
Later on you will poop it out, but don't let this occurrence freak you out, it's perfectly natural.
House Account: A Renovation: Emptied Rooms
By Pia Z. Ehrhardt
Tomorrow morning, the construction company will arrive at our hundred-year-old home in mid-city New Orleans, and some strong men will move out shiny black kitchen appliances and the world's heaviest television and truck them over to Common Ground where they'll be used by Lower Nine families who are rebuilding after Katrina. Then the contractor will stage our house for what we hope will be a five-month renovation. Back in our new and updated kitchen just in time for Christmas dinner is what we're hoping for but everyone I talk to tells me to multiply the months by 100%. Right now I don't want to think about ten months and I'm going to err on the side of optimism and good ju ju because we haven't started yet and already I want my house back.
We bought the place in August 2002 after falling instantly in love with the little reading room downstairs, and we thought at first that it was a Sears home, but the Sears kit house historian, after I sent her a photo, told me it was too fancy. It still has the feel of a house that was shipped in pieces. Lots of kitschy details that look like junior versions of columns and moldings you might find in an Uptown mansion. It's 3,500 sf counting the recently converted (by owners before us) attic where our son, Andrew, spent his teenage years and where his father and I will live for these next few months. Until Andrew leaves for college in late August, we'll all be sleeping and dwelling up there together. (We used to call sleeping in the same room "the family camp", but that was before Andrew started coming in at 1 a.m. after being out with his girlfriend or his buddies. Once he's in the house, safe, I imagine it'll be that same complete peace I feel when my boys are resting just inches away from me.) The attic is a nice space, almost 1,000 sf, but it's taken twenty sessions of hands-on-hips to get Andrew to move his piles of clothes and CDs and PS3 games and shit off the floor where he swears, "It's easier to find them, Mom" and into the boxes he'll use to carry those things to the University of Texas. I will miss him, but I'm ready for him to go as long as he doesn't forget to come back home and not just for holidays like the first Christmas we will have in our new and improved house. (Think it, say it, will it.)
For the last three weeks, we've been slowly tossing towers of New Yorkers and Harpers and Atlantic Monthlies and Time and Men's Health and shelter magazines, and going through clothing and shoes and toys and books and CDs, the worn out furniture from our first marriages, and what wasn't ruined or thread bare we gave to Goodwill and Malcolm's older sons. A storage container on Carrollton is stuffed with the less valuable things that will be put back into the house. Things it wouldn't grieve us to lose if another hurricane hits and the levees fail again. The living room is piled high with art and photographs and Important Papers and sofas and tables and chairs, lamps, tchotchkes, whatever we could fit in there, because it's the one room that isn't going to be worked in so the contractor's assured us that everything in there will be visqueened and then sealed off and that sheetrock dust won't get into our stuff.
Our house is on Esplanade Ridge and we didn't flood during Katrina but our neighborhood did – from a few inches to ten feet – as the bowl that is my city filled with dirty water. Mid-City was under water for three weeks, and when Malcolm checked on the house in late September, (with a special access pass he'd been issued from the governor's office), he had to empty a refrigerator and freezer that had been sitting in high heat. We'd taken the meat with us when we evacuated to Jackson. Malcolm said it was rotten ice cream and frozen vegetables that left a smell in his brain that he still can't forget. So we don't keep much in the freezer anymore, and we won't ever leave town during a hurricane again with food in the fridge, or just the clothes on our backs, because from Jackson we went directly to Houston for four months so Andrew could go to high school there with 400 kids from his flooded high school. This much I know: You don't always know when you're going to get back home.
The editing that Malcolm and Andrew and I have been doing is a privilege; our friends and family who lost everything to water didn't have a choice about what to pitch, donate or save. I didn't lose Andrew's baby pictures, or the VHS tapes of his first hair cut, Pre-K graduation, first Holy Communion, which I can't watch, formatted like they are, but I have them to convert. I have my memories of my life with this family I love so much, but I also have artifacts, images, drawings, macaroni Christmas ornaments, proof that marks the years together, evidence that we did the things we remember doing.
Over the last thirty years since college, I've collected almost 1,000 books, and they're safely tucked into boxes where I can find them. We're going to have wall-to-ceiling-bookshelves in the den upstairs, and those boxes will probably be the first ones I unpack because those books need an alphabetical, genre-driven home and it will have been too many months since I had them close by, not to read just then but to read and re-read one day.
So, on tap to renovate is our kitchen and three bathrooms, all of which are from the 20s, and while we're torn up and breathing plaster dust, we're going to reconfigure the flow upstairs because our home was once a boarding house for jockeys at the Fair Grounds, which is a half-mile away, and so the second floor is mostly a landing with lots of doors to small rooms that spin off and don't seem to know about each other. Right now, today, everything feels like hope and promise and timeliness, but I'll be back every few days to document the set-backs and victories and doldrums as we set out for not this, but, rather, a stiff-winded sail over to the isle of great water pressure and book-laden shelves and a kitchen that'll be a magnet for friends and family and the returning Andrew.
Meanwhile, we drift through empty rooms, missing a place to sit and drink coffee, talk and read, but pleasantly reminded of how the house looked when we first walked in and fell in love.
Yes, I Need to Get Laid. No, I am Not Going to Have Sex With You
Hello, my name is Zoë Brock and I am a hopelessly hopeful romantic.
Love and I have a long and sordid relationship. We're stuck to each other with that cheap, tacky glue that never dries properly and gets hairs and other bits of icky dirt and effluvia stuck in it and ends up looking like a coughed up owl pellet, minus the skeletal bits. It's horrible, trust me.
Sometimes I feel as if I live my life adhered to the cheap pulpy paper bound between the flowery covers of a Harlequin romance novel.
Sometimes I wonder if some sticky-fingered house-wife isn't pouring over the sordid details of my love-life, swooning, moaning and gasping at the more elaborately descriptive paragraphs as she takes a break between episodes of 'The Bold and the Beautiful' and 'Days of Our Lives'.
Sometimes I feel like I'm getting paper cuts on my fingers as I try to escape from my papery jail.
It's useless trying to escape, of course. There is no way out of yourself. I am what I am.
And I just love the Love.
For example- The other day, while standing at a downtown street corner waiting for the lights to change, I started fantasizing about the moment when I will see My Person again after a long absence. I think about this scenario a lot. We've been apart a few months, and still have several weeks to go before we can look at each other and assess the changes and evolutions we have both gone through on our own. My mind wanders to that moment and I drift off into completely fantastical scenes, replete with soaring movie music and zoom shots into locked lips before wide pans up into blue sky.
I gross myself out a lot.
Sometimes these thoughts involve hurried needful sex or desperate kisses. Sometimes they involve me fainting, weak knees giving way, eyes rolling back in head, tall girl dissolving into a pile of floppy limbs and crumpled emotions.
No one has ever accused me of having no sense of melodrama.
Anyway, back to that corner- I'm standing there, weak kneed and gooey, envisioning him as he walks across the street/room/playa- tanned, athletic, half naked, like some stud from a bad Arabian Nights illustration (vomit, I know) and I realize the lights have changed and that I've missed my chance to cross. More than this I realize they have changed several times and that I have been standing on the corner of Market and Geary with a stupid look on my face long enough to attract the attention of the nearby flower vendor. He inquires about my well being and I nod, flush, and scurry away in a pink cloud of girlie embarrassment.
Yesterday, while walking home from an adventure at the gay hardware store (a whole other story) I was stupid enough to fall victim to my romantic impulses again. This time my mind was co-erced into dangerous idiocy by the melodic strains of KD Lang singing 'Hallelujah' on my iPod.
Did I listen to it once? Did I listen to it twice? Or did I listen to it three times and send myself into a spasm of mind-fucking that involved such details as sordid spontaneous sex, declarations of eternal love and devotion and, most shamefully, full-blown confetti-strewn matrimony? You guess.
And I almost got run over as a consequence.
I should have my own sitcom. We could call it Zoe loves Chachi.
(Did you know that Cha-Chi is the Mongolian term for penis? [Actually I made that up {but it's funny, right?}])
Of course not all of my romantic moments are light and fluffy. Some of them are downright dark and brooding, morose and gloomy. More of a "Jane Eyre" than a "When Harry Shtupped Sally". More "Donnie Darko" than "The Notebook".
Sometimes my romantic reality is heavy and smothering and desperate and tragic. My need for someone can be overwhelming to them and to myself.
(Excuse me, a cat needs some attention).
I'm back. Where was I? Romance. Dreams. Vomitous imaginings wrapped in pink lace and scented tissue.
If the adage "have dick, be dickhead" is true then surely the same must be said for women. "Have vagina, be a giant bloody pussy". Sorry, Nana, I know you're reading this.
But after much agonizing and mental self-flagellation I've come to the conclusion that being a romantic isn't so bad after all. Sure, it's a bit embarrassing. Sure, I cry in commercials and stupid fluffy movies. Sure, I've been known to stare at people kissing in the street with a big goofy grin on my head until they think I'm a pervert, but it also means I'm open to the whole damn thing, despite more than a few disappointments and broken-hearted escapades (see archives for further reading material), escapades that could have made me bitter and twisted and far too scared to indulge in this type of thinking.
And, this way, if I'm not getting romanced, cuddled and loved-up in reality, I can always escape to the Fabiolicious fantasies inside my own mind, right?
Cor! Look at him! If you knew where my finger was while that picture was being taken you'd be shaking my hand, children.
*ALL PHOTOSHOPPING WITHIN THIS STORY WAS MAGIC PERFORMED BY JOSH 'DR CHOP' FLECHTNER. MANY THANKS FOR HIS WIZARDRY, MAY OUR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS BE LONG-LIVED, COMPLETELY DERANGED AND INCREDIBLY SILLY.
In Case You Come Back (Things I'm Keeping)
By Megan Power
I'm keeping your shampoo and conditioner in case you ever come back to Texas, wind up staying in my bed and showering in my shower the next morning.
I'm keeping the soft, worn hospital blanket your mom "borrowed" from Fort Sam.
I'm keeping the David Yurman ring you gave me one Christmas. It was never really my style but you said it was the first ring you ever bought a girl. You were 28 years old when you said that.
I'm keeping some Skillets in the freezer in case you come back and maybe just want to come over for breakfast. This is your favorite breakfast (besides Eggs Benedict).
I'm keeping my hair long in case you come back even though I really want the Rihanna haircut. You always told me to keep it long. Anyway, it's so cliche for girls to cut their hair post breakup.
I'm keeping the smiles/sea/drinks/sunset picture of us in Cabo on my bookshelf so you can remember the trip when we fell in love in case you come back.
I'm keeping your phone number and all three email addresses in the manila file folder labeled "Canada Documents" tucked in back of a coat closet. I had to delete them from my phone and laptop because the temptation to use them became nearly unbearable after we surpassed our previous breakup record of 22 days. But I might need them, in case you come back.
I'm keeping up appearances in case you come back. No badmouthing or crying in public. I ran into the Sprockett guy's girlfriend last week. When she didn't recognize me I reflexively said, "I'm Harry's girlfriend." Her lightbulb went on and mine dimmed. "Well…ex," I corrected. "Ex-girlfriend." A quick recovery.
I'm keeping the Spanish Dagger you left at my place. You used to huff on its leaves to speed up photosynthesis. You'll want to see how well it's doing, if you come back.
I'm keeping the radio preset to 89.1 in case you come back and want to discuss something from NPR. You're the only person I know who wants to discuss what they heard on NPR. Actually you're the only person I know who listens to NPR.
I'm keeping a low profile.
You can't smoke, drink, cry, fuck or wish a person out of your system.
Can you write someone away? Maybe.
I'm keeping an open mind. To new possibilities.
And to old ones.
Why I am "Prolific" So Far
By Tao Lin
In interviews and other places they say I am prolific. I think why I wrote many things so far is because when I was depressed, lonely, in a situation of unrequited emotions, or had just been disappointed by a human being, I didn't watch TV or call someone or drink alcohol. I wrote stories, poems, and novels.
I don't watch TV because I don't have one, but also because for some reason I prefer feeling existential despair and despair having to do with being emotional and melodramatic to feeling nothing (I don't have strong urges to get painkillers or cough syrup or other things or drink alcohol) or feeling "vacuous" or "distracted" or whatever by a TV show, a video game, knitting, "small talk," etc. For example if I already feel depressed and alone I will listen to music that is depressing and by a lonely person instead of other music. The same with movies. I sometimes have urges to do some of those "distracting" things but the urges are not very strong and most of the time if I am feeling severely depressed I will drink coffee and sit at the computer with intent to write a story or poem or edit or something.
I didn't talk to people mostly because I didn't have people to talk to (when I wrote most of what I've written so far) but also because I feel very bad about misleading people or using people to relieve loneliness. If I wouldn't talk to someone normally, when I am not depressed, I feel self-conscious talking to them when I am lonely, because I know some of it must be because I feel lonely. I feel bad when people around me are disappointed by relationships. If I start "hanging out" and being in social situations a lot and if there are two people who come to my reading for me I feel bad that I only talk to one of them or that I didn't talk to both simultaneously the entire time. I don't like when I'm talking to one person and there is another person standing there waiting for me. I would almost rather just not talk at all. If there are three people in a group and I am one of three I feel intense pressure to not talk too long to one person (or to just not talk at all) because the other person will feel "left out." I had a reading and more than one person came and one brought me a flower and that night I lay in bed feeling really emotional about how the person who brought me a flower felt when I talked to the other person. Even if it's someone I don't know who comes to talk to me and someone else taps me and talks to me I feel really bad about the other person. I'm not being very articulate but I think you can understand me.
When I feel myself "using" someone to relieve loneliness I feel like a terrible asshole. I feel like I'm in a movie or sitcom. If there are two people who like me at the same time I feel very emotional thinking about the situation. I want them both to get what they want. Because I know how it feels to like someone who doesn't like you back. I don't know. If both people are very detached people it is better, I feel less emotional and more like it is a life-affirming situation, that there is just a lot of good feelings happening between human beings. I like people who I feel that no matter what terrible shit happens to them they will never feel complete despair but always be a little outside of their situation, viewing it with amusement and complete acceptance, and who accept death also. I am more able to think about those people without feeling emotional in a way that makes me not want to talk as much or have relationships or friends as much, meaning I understand that they will understand that if I do not like them as much as they like me that is something they can accept, and not feel complete despair about. I think I like when people treat me like that. But I am reluctant to treat someone like that, so directly, if I don't know if they are very detached and able to accept things completely; though I think I learned to be very detached and to accept things completely in part because people have treated me in the way I described, which is directly and not in an all-or-nothing way, meaning that if I wanted to be in a relationship with them and they did not want it they would still talk to me, but just talk to me and do things for me in the exact amount they wanted to, always knowing that I wanted more.
If more than one person likes me and wants to talk to me and hang out with me I feel a little "powerful" and "loved" but a lot "worried" and "sympathetic" and I get a concerned facial expression. If I like someone and they do not like me I feel "worried" and "sympathetic" also toward myself, as if I were someone else, but I also feel powerful, because I know that I am able to accept the situation, meaning I won't kill myself or anything like that.
But I also want to type that I think if I viewed myself from another person's perspective I would probably think that I was a person who used many people just to relieve loneliness. And from a certain perspective everyone is just using everyone for everything. I didn't type about that in this post. This post is incomplete and from a certain perspective only.
There are many other reasons why I am "prolific" so far.
I enjoy being alone at a computer with coffee and listening to music and doing things on the internet.
I like drinking coffee and listening to music and editing a story.
There are other reasons also.
Thank you for reading my post about why I am "prolific" so far.
By Rob Bloom
Think of the stupidest thing you've ever done. You know, the kind of stories that make you cringe every single time you tell them, even though it's been, like, eight years since you had brunch at that little café in Smyrna, Georgia and you had to go to the bathroom really, really, really bad and, because God has a really terrific sense of humor, there was somebody in the men's room who was not coming out anytime that year, which left you no choice but to duck into the women's restroom where, again since God is a regular comedian, you discovered someone had clogged the toilet, meaning you were up to your ankles in toilet water, and the whole thing was terribly embarrassing, particularly when you walked out and saw not only the manager but also your horrified date.
Of course, in accordance to the ancient rules of comedy (see "Stiller, Ben"), any "Oh, Crap!" moment is comically enhanced by the infliction of pain, either physical or emotional. Take, for instance, when I was a 6th grade student at Rock Lake Middle School in Longwood, Florida. There I was, with my spiked mullet and startlingly enormous glasses, thinking I was quite the stud. In reality, I was slightly less cool than my classmate Billy Jeffries who, according to legend, was still wetting the bed.
Anyway, it was March and the big news around school was the upcoming 6th grade dance. I had my heart set on asking Michelle Johnson. Now being the stud that I was, I went about asking out Michelle in the classic studly way: I wrote her a note. But this wasn't just any note. This was a literary masterpiece where I transcribed (in nauseatingly great length) my deep feelings for her—not to mention about 9 jillion references to how pretty she was and what a cute couple we'd be. I wrote the entire three-page manuscript during Social Studies class. I was just about done when the teacher shot me a "don't make me come over there" glance. I quickly folded up the note and slid it inside my Social Studies book.
The bell rang and I walked out of the room, confident my note would sweep Michelle off her feet. It wasn't until my next class when I had a horrible realization:
I had left my Social Studies book behind.
As soon as algebra ended, I ran (see "Runner, Road") back to the Social Studies room. Yes! The book was right where I left it! The note, on the other hand, was gone. Little did I know, that jerk Billy Jeffries had found the note and, at that very moment, was in the library making a few hundred photocopies of it. Thirty minutes later, those copies would plaster the school walls. Twenty minutes after that, Michelle would call me a "giant spaz!" in the cafeteria, loud enough for everyone in the zip code to hear.
Moral of the story: Never ask someone out in a note. However, if you must, DO NOT let the note out of your sight.
I told that story because, up until a few days ago, I thought I had a secure hold on Stupid Stock. Of course, that was until I accidentally stabbed myself in the thumb with an Epipen needle. For those of you who don't know, an Epipen is a crazy large needle carried by people with food allergies in the event they eat a peanut or something. So basically, as your throat is closing from the allergic reaction, you're supposed to take the Epipen and stab yourself in the thigh. Now I won't get into the details of how I stabbed myself (some things are truly too stupid to disclose) but let's just say that I discovered the answer to the question, "hmmm…I wonder which side the needle comes out of."
As I sat there with my thumb bleeding like a character in a Monty Python movie, my only thought was, "Howthehell am I going to explain this to the doctor?" Fortunately the doctor didn't bother to ask, probably because he was too busy deciding whether or not I should go to the emergency room.
Anyway, looking back, all's well that ends well. The hole in my thumb is closing and I'm almost to the point where I can eat a shish kabob without whimpering.
Moral of the story: Don't play around with an Epipen needle. However, if you must, point the thing at Billy Jeffries.


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M. Choudhury and D.J. Watkins (eds.), Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley
Information publiée le 11 février 2019 par Université de Lausanne (source : Emma Burridge)
Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley
edited by Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2019:02
ISBN: 9781786941428, 400 pages, £65.00
Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France brings together top scholars in French history to explore how religious belief shaped identities and experiences in the long eighteenth century. Written in honor of Dale K. Van Kley, a pioneer in the history of religion and French politics, these essays illustrate how belief, Enlightenment, and Revolution coexisted and co-mingled in Old Regime and Revolutionary France.
Offers innovative methodological approaches to the study of religious faith beyond theology and institutions.
Through the range of sources and multiple approaches, illustrates how religious belief could be unpredictable, showing up in unlikely places, informing unlikely debates, and instituting unlikely changes.
Provides a fresh perspective on how scholars study religion, not simply as a reflection of a larger reality, but ideas and sensibilities closely connected with other social, political, gendered, or ethnic identities.
Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins, Introduction
I. Belief, Enlightenment, and the political culture of the Old Regime
Jeffrey D. Burson, Entangling the "century of lights" to disentangle the Enlightenment
Daniella Kostroun, Reflections of Jansenism in North America: La Salle and his letters
David A. Bell, A lawyer and a citizen revisited: the case of Claude-Joseph Prévost (1674–1753)
Mita Choudhury, Masculinity and faith in the eighteenth century: comparing François de Pâris and Jean-Baptiste Girard
Carolina Armenteros, Jesuits of India: adapting Van Kley's "Religion and the age of 'patriot' reform" to South Asia
Thomas E. Kaiser, From the parti dévot to the parti du roi: royalist ideology, foreign policy, and the recrystallization of court faction at the accession of Louis XVI
David Garrioch, Varieties of religious behaviour in eighteenth-century Paris: the material culture of leaders of confraternities
II . Belief in a Revolutionary age
Johnson Kent Wright, Religion, Enlightenment, and revolution: the Van Kley thesis
Jeffrey Ryan Harris, Jansenism, popular sovereignty, and the general will in the pre-Revolutionary crisis
Monique Cottret, Jansenism during the Revolution: the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques in the face of dechristianization
Valérie Guittienne-Mürger, The "Ides of August 1814": the Jansenists and the image of Port-Royal in the anti-Jesuitism of the Restoration
Daniel J. Watkins, A suppression revisited: Jansenism, conservatism, and the anti-Jesuit ordinances of 1828
Dale K. Van Kley, Writing religion into the French century of lights: the confessions of a Protestant historian of the Catholic Jansenist controversy
Mita Choudhury is professor of History at Vassar College. Her publications have focused on eighteenth-century French politics, religion, and gender.
Daniel J. Watkins is assistant professor of History at Baylor University. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of eighteenth-century France and the Catholic Church.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
Responsable : Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins
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https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781786941428
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After the band went 'on hiatus' in 2009, Glenn Richards opted to move from Melbourne to Hobart seeking lower rent and the chance to develop a working studio. This he did, building a soundproof bunker out of a small cave carved out of the wall of an underground garage in Goulburn Street, West Hobart. He began to write and demo songs for something, anything, next.
Inside of a year he'd been given the choice by his negatively-geared landlord to either eliminate the abandoned sibling kittens now in his care or be evicted. In his new rental lodging further up the mountain there was a large garden and a bungalow, which was duly converted to a more ambitious studio and sometimes speakeasy.
Communication amongst Glenn, Adam, Edmondo, Dave and Kiernan flickered to life. The idea of a new album was floated, one made in their own time, under their own steam; an album that was just made until it was made.
Within a year, despite two different wrists, one broken and one wrenched from its preferred location, and the perpetual problem of just getting together, Augie March began putting basic tracks down in the glow of the news they were finally, blessedly, independent once more.
In dribs and drabs over months and eventually over a year drums and bass were laid down at two different Melbourne studios. Vocals and assorted overdubs were then completed in Hobart, Brunswick and Yarraville by individual band members.
Of thirty-odd tracks, the list was refined to a smaller number.
14 tracks made the final cut.
The album is mixed beautifully by old friend and engineer illuminati Paul McKercher.
Its themes are various, but times passing, loss, dislocation, distance, new hope and healthy anger are coals in its fire. It contains elements of each release that has gone before.
1. AWOL
2. After The Crack Up
3. Bastard Time
4. A Dog Starved
5. Hobart Obit
6. Father Jack And Mr. T
7. St. Helena
8. The Faking Boy
9. Definitive History
10. Villa Adriana
11. Millenarians' Mirror
12. Sailing To The Moon
13. Never Been Sad
14. The Crime
iTunes Bonus Tracks:
15. Forking Paths
16. Arthur's Chessboard
17. Marienbad
Read the 'Havens Dumb' Track by Track
Read the 'Havens Dumb' Bio
After The Crack Up
After The Crack Up (Lyrics)
Definitive History (Lyrics)
A Dog Starved


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1Geography
3Demographics
4Government
4.1Local government
4.2State government
4.3Federal government
5Infrastructure
5.1Transportation
5.2Parks and recreation
6.1Primary and secondary schools
6.1.1Public schools
6.1.2Area private schools
6.2Colleges and universities
6.3Public libraries
7Notable people
Willis, Texas
City in Texas, United States
City Hall of Willis, Texas
Location within Montgomery county
Coordinates: 30°25′22″N 95°28′44″W / 30.42278°N 95.47889°W / 30.42278; -95.47889Coordinates: 30°25′22″N 95°28′44″W / 30.42278°N 95.47889°W / 30.42278; -95.47889
1937 (Home Rule: 2008)
Council-Manager
Leonard Reed
• Council Members
Ashley Nixon
Barney Stone
Tamara Young-Hector
Thomas Luster
• City Manager
Sheyi Ipaye
4.73 sq mi (12.26 km2)
0.00 sq mi (0.01 km2)
1,484.89/sq mi (573.38/km2)
UTC-6 (Central (CST))
UTC-5 (CDT)
FIPS code
48-79408[3]
www.ci.willis.tx.us
Willis is a city in Montgomery County, Texas, United States, located eight miles north of Conroe in north central Montgomery County. The city began to develop in 1870 after what is now the Union Pacific Railroad built track through the area. As a part of the Piney Woods, the Willis economy has historically been driven by lumber, agriculture, and the manufacture of lumber and agriculture equipment. From the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, it produced tobacco as a commodity crop. Competition from Cuba reduced its contribution to the economy.
As of 2020, the population of Willis was estimated to be 6,431. In 2008, after Willis's population passed 5,000, the city established a home rule city charter.
Geography[edit]
Willis is located at 30°25′22″N 95°28′44″W / 30.42278°N 95.47889°W / 30.42278; -95.47889 (30.422640, –95.478829).[5]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.3 square miles (8.5 km2), all of it land.
Willis Cigar Factory. Texas Historic Marker, N. Bell St., Willis, TX[6]
Before the founding of Willis, most residents in the area lived in a settlement known as Danville, formed in the 1830s four miles west of present-day New Waverly.[7] A few Danville residents in the 1850s settled to the south, founding the new community of what is now Willis.[8]
Several of these early Danville residents were large planters, who held numerous enslaved African Americans to work the labor-intensive tobacco crops on their plantations.[8] In the 1850s, enslaved African Americans outnumbered whites in Danville: there were 600 slaves and 400 whites.[7] After the Civil War, many freedmen and their families moved away from the plantations to the Willis area. There in 1867 they established Thomas Chapel United Methodist Church, which is the oldest church in Willis.[8]
In 1870, the Houston and Great Northern Railroad (now the Union Pacific Railroad) decided to build a railroad through Montgomery County. After residents of Danville refused to allow the railway through their town, Peter J. and Richard S. Willis donated a parcel of their landholdings in Montgomery County so the railroad and station stop could be built there. They founded the town of Willis in the process.[7][8][9] Upon the railroad's completion in 1872, many residents of Danville, Old Waverly, and Montgomery moved to the new town of Willis.[9][8]
In 1874, a county election was held to determine whether the county seat of Montgomery County should be transferred from the town of Montgomery to Willis.[8][9] Although Willis received more votes (788 to 646), it did not gain the requisite two-thirds majority, so the county seat remained officially in Montgomery.[8] A protracted legal battle ended in 1878 when the Supreme Court of Texas ruled in favor of Montgomery.[8] With several county officials and Willis residents refusing to accept the results, another county seat election was held in 1880. That year Montgomery won the vote over Willis, 1308 to 1243.[8] The dispute between the two towns finally ended in 1889, when Conroe was selected as the county seat.[8][10]
In the 1870s, the main occupations were farming, shipping, and the manufacture of lumber and agricultural products.[9] In 1891, local Willis residents started growing Cuban tobacco, and Willis developed as a center for the production of cigars and other tobacco products.[8][9] During the early years of the Great Depression, Willis suffered from falling demand in lumber products and a sharp decline in the demand for tobacco products.[9] A man named Tom Payne was lynched in Willis in 1927.[11]
The economy began to recover in 1931 during the Texas oil boom, when oil was discovered in the area.[9] In the 1930s and 40s, the development of U.S. Route 75, along with the recovery of the lumber industry during World War II, fully revitalized the local economy.[9][8]
In the mid to late 20th century through the present, agriculture and lumber remain vital components of the Willis economy, in addition to the retail, service, and manufacturing industries.[12][9]
Demographics[edit]
1880 656 —
1950 1,164 28.8%
1960 975 −16.2%
1980 1,674 6.2%
U.S. Decennial Census[13]
Willis racial composition as of 2020[14]
(NH = Non-Hispanic)[a]
White (NH) 2,529 39.33%
Black or African American (NH) 1,076 16.73%
Native American or Alaska Native (NH) 16 0.25%
Asian (NH) 28 0.44%
Some Other Race (NH) 29 0.45%
Mixed/Multi-Racial (NH) 246 3.83%
Hispanic or Latino 2,505 38.95%
Total 6,431
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 6,431 people, 2,183 households, and 1,688 families residing in the city.
As of the 2010 United States Census,[17] there were 5,662 people, 1,782 households, and 1,340 families residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 56.7% White, 18.2% African American, 0.9% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 20.1% from other races, and 3.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 38.0% of the population.
There were 1,782 households, out of which 42.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.5% were married couples living together, 25.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% were non-families. 19.6% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 3.10 and the average family size was 3.55.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 33.3% under the age of 18, 11.3% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.3 males.
According to the 2015 American Community Survey, The median income for a household in the city was $36,640, and the median income for a family was $38,244. Males had a median income of $26,320 versus $18,036 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,122. About 15.6% of families and 14.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.1% of those under age 18 and 42.6% of those age 65 or over.
Government[edit]
Local government[edit]
The city was incorporated in 1937.[8] When Willis was incorporated, it was governed by general law, as defined by the Constitution of Texas.[18] In 2008, when population estimates placed noted total residents exceeded 5000 persons, Willis adopted a Home rule city charter. Home Rule in Texas enables cities to establish their own laws as long as those laws are consistent with the Texas Constitution. It also grants greater freedom for cities to levy taxes and pay off debts.[19] On May 10, 2008, the residents of Willis voted to adopt the City of Willis Home Rule Charter.[20]
The city has a council-manager government. The six-member city council consists of a mayor elected at-large and five city council member elected from single-member districts. As of June 2022, the mayor is Leonard Reed. Council members are Ashley Nixon, Barney Stone, Tamara Young-Hector, Thomas Luster, and William Brown.[1] The council appoints a professional city manager to deal with day to day operations and assert substantial administrative powers.[20] As of June 2022, the city manager is Sheyi Ipaye.[21]
State government[edit]
Willis is part of District 3, Texas Senate, and represented by Republican Robert Nichols. In the Texas House of Representatives, Willis is part of District 16, represented by Republican Will Metcalf.[22]
Federal government[edit]
Willis Post Office, Willis, Texas 77378
In the United States Senate, Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz represent the entire state of Texas. In the United States House of Representatives, Willis is part of Texas's 8th congressional district,represented by Republican Kevin Brady.[22]
The United States Postal Service Willis Post Office is located at 609 North Campbell Street.[23]
Infrastructure[edit]
Transportation[edit]
In the 1960s, Interstate 45 was built through the western portion of Willis, connecting Willis with Houston to the south and Dallas to the north. The previous Houston-Dallas route through Willis, U.S. route 75, is now Texas State Highway 75, running parallel to Interstate 45 through downtown Willis.
Farm to Market Road 1097 connects Willis to Lake Conroe and Montgomery to the west. Its eastern terminus is Texas State Highway 150 to the east of New Waverly.
Union Pacific operates a railroad that travels north-south through Willis.
Parks and recreation[edit]
The central portion of Lake Conroe is located a few miles west of Willis.[24]
Sam Houston National Forest is located several miles west, north, and east of Willis.[25]
Education[edit]
Willis High School
Primary and secondary schools[edit]
Public schools[edit]
Willis' public schools are operated by the Willis Independent School District and Responsive Education Solutions.
Five elementary schools, all of which are in Willis, serve portions of Willis:
Edward B. Cannan Elementary School (Grades Pre-K–5th)
C. C. Hardy Elementary School (Grades Pre-K–5th)
Mel Parmley Elementary School (Grades Pre-K–5th)
A.R. Turner Elementary School (Grades Pre-K–5th)
William Lloyd Meador Elementary School (Grades Pre-K–5th)
Lagway Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5th)
Vista Academy of Willis (Grades K–8)
Two middle schools serve portions of Willis:
Robert P. Brabham Middle School (Grades 6–8) (Unincorporated Montgomery County)
Lynn Lucas Middle School (Grades 6–8) (Willis)
All of the city is zoned to Willis High School in Unincorporated Montgomery County.
Portions of the city used to be zoned to Turner Elementary School until the attendance zoned changed for the 2006–2007 school year, rezoning the portion to Hardy Elementary School.[26]
Area private schools[edit]
Covenant Christian School
Colleges and universities[edit]
Lone Star College (originally the North Harris Montgomery Community College District) serves the community. The territory in Willis ISD joined the community college district in 1996.[27] The nearest campus is Lone Star College-Montgomery, which operates the Conroe Center in northern Conroe.[28]
Public libraries[edit]
Montgomery County Memorial Library System operates the R. F. Meador Branch at 709 West Montgomery Street.[29]
Notable people[edit]
Michael Bishop, former professional football player[30]
Tina Chandler, IFBB professional bodybuilder
Jessie Hollins (1970–2009), professional baseball player[31]
Marcus Luttrell, Navy SEAL[32]
D.D. Terry, professional football player[33]
Cliff Young (1964–1993), professional baseball player[34]
^ a b Mayor and City Council. City of Willis, Texas. Accessed on June 10, 2022.
^ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
^ "Site of Willis Cigar Factory - Montgomery County ~ Number: 7909". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1986.
^ a b c Danville Heritage Museum of Montgomery County. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Foerster, Larry L. Historical Timeline of Willis, Texas. Montgomery County Historical Commission: June 2013. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ a b c d e f g h i Jackson, Charles Christopher. Willis, Texas. Handbook of Texas Online: June 15, 2010. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ Harley Gandy, William.Excerpts from "A History of Montgomery County, Texas" Chapter V, 'Cities, Towns, and Communities. County GenWeb: October 18, 2016. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ "The Law's Too Slot". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. January 1928. p. 19.
^ Willis Visitors Guide. City of Willis, Texas. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
^ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
^ https://www.census.gov/[not specific enough to verify]
^ "About the Hispanic Population and its Origin". www.census.gov. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ American Factfinder: Willis. Archived 2020-02-13 at archive.today United States Census Bureau. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ Texas Constitution, Article XI, Section 4.
^ a b Home Rule Charter. City of Willis: Adopted May 10, 2008. Last Amended: May 10, 2014. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ City Manager. City of Willis, Texas. Accessed on June 10, 2022.
^ a b Who Represents Me: Willis. Texas Legislative Council. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ "Post Office Location - WILLIS." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on December 8, 2008.
^ Fishing Lake Conroe Texas Parks and Wildlife. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ Sam Houston National Forest. USDA Forest Service. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ "Willis Independent School District / Directory".
^ "History." North Harris Montgomery Community College District. December 22, 2002. Retrieved on April 5, 2010.
^ LSC-Conroe Center. Lone Star College. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ "R. F. Meador Branch Library." Montgomery County Memorial Library System. Retrieved on December 8, 2008.
^ Michael Bishop Stats. Fox Sports. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ Solomon, Jerome. Solomon: Hollins' tale goes far beyond cup of coffee. Houston Chronicle: July 19, 2009. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ Isensee, Laura. Willis resident reflects on surviving Afghanistan battle. Houston Chronicle:July 3, 2007. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ D.D. Terry. CBS Sports. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ Cliff Young. Baseball Reference. Accessed on July 5, 2017.
^ Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.[15][16]
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Let us count the flaws in the saga involving George Washington University's sudden "delisting" from the unfortunately influential U.S. News & World Report college rankings.
Here's what happened: The university, which this year was in a three-way tie for 51st place in the National Universities category (with Boston and Tulane universities), revealed that it had been giving the magazine exaggerated data on the percentage of freshmen who had graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
The school said the figure for last year was 78 percent, but, in its mea culpa, said it was actually 58 percent. (You can read more about the disclosure here). But, as it turns out, 58 percent isn't really 58 percent; it is 58 percent of the 38 percent of students for whom class ranking data was available. And there's the rub: Many — probably a majority — of high schools don't give class ranks, raising questions about the significance of this data point for the rankings, and about whether other schools have accurately reported on this. Montgomery and Fairfax county schools don't, for example. Neither do many of the country's most prestigious private schools.
My colleague Nick Anderson figured out that for 2011-12 freshmen at Yale, 97 percent were ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school classes; at Harvard, 95 percent, at Princeton, 93 percent. BUT, at Yale, the 97 percent is really 97 percent of the 31 percent of freshmen for whom there was class rank data. At Harvard, it's 95 percent of the 60 percent of freshmen for whom class rank was available. At Princeton, it's 93 percent of the 30 percent of freshmen had class rank information.
If this sounds cockamamie, that's because it is.
Of course, the magazine's ranking methodology overall gives rise to skepticism about the worth of the entire ranking enterprise. The U.S. News college rankings have taken on a life of their own, becoming all-important to families desperately looking for information about higher education and to colleges and universities that bend over backwards to get a higher ranking to attract students.
So what we have is flawed information in a flawed data category in a flawed overall methodology for college rankings that shouldn't matter to anyone, but do. Correcting a flawed statistic that is used in a flawed methodology doesn't correct that flawed methodology.
GWU officials thought the school would fall a few spots in the ranking and were surprised to be dropped from the list entirely. After all, Claremont McKenna College in California and Emory University in Atlanta acknowledged this year that they inflated SAT scores of incoming freshmen in public reports but their rankings weren't affected.
It just may be that for George Washington University, going unranked for 10 months will turn out to be a good thing. Some students there are upset that their schools is now unranked — as if suddenly something has materially changed at the schools. Nothing has. Classes will still be taught, degrees will be awarded, research will be conducted, applications will be received. Life without college rankings. Where's the flaw in that?