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You would think that people facing such implements would be reluctant to set a precedent of televising a firing squad.

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"You're trying to convince me that Israel is right by telling me how Hamas is wrong." -- me to my students, several times. "You're trying to convince me that Palestinian leadership is right by telling me how Israel is wrong." -- me to my my activist friends, several times.

Only 8 days into the month? You're early. I usually don't remember to be aware until at least the 20th.

Antisemities = bigots against Jews. Anti-Semites = bigots against Jews, and F the Maltese as well.

Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just did a Google search for "lawyer parody of baby got back." Instead of searching, Google AI wrote one. I won't be sharing it.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think you might be wrong in that Hamilton just might win with a larger margin than Turek.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you have a co-author? If not, you need one so you can achieve the primary purpose of publishing a math paper: getting (or decreasing) your Erdos number.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you want, I'll nail 95 Reese's to his old house in 4 weeks.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I now know I will absolutely decline if my school wants me to teach that.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why are you allowing yourself to be infected by this evil? If you need it, I'll send you my 14th edition Chicago Manual. I'm addition to be Holy writ, it has the added advantage of heft to use on a teacher who mandates any other style.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm pretty sure a generic LLM is 28 steps better than a 486 and 386 combined.

Someone already did that for me. Do you know how hard it is to regain control of your bank account when the computer finds the letter "M" in the balance?

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And June 27 is the latest sunset. bsky.app/profile/stlo...

Quite offensive, but this is also offensive: June 14th is the earliest sunrise. bsky.app/profile/stlo...

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I find it hard to keep straight. That's why I just root for the owners to get injured. All of them. **Especially when the Packers play.**

So, the same as when the Eagles play, except that tonight, you're rooting for the meteor to hit the other teams, and when the Eagles play, you root for the meteor to hit your house.

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Alternatively, "you commented on this post. I probably know you, but I have no idea how."

BUT THAT'S WHERE MY FRIENDS ARE!! -DE

Or, in a small church, at all four times.

I would contend that rape is more severe than murder in that rapists are far more likely to rape again than murderers are to murder again. Punishing rapists is much more likely to reduce future crime than punishing murderers does.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a personal question about your choice of readings: it's there a reason you chose Hamilton's "New Deal" book over Michael Williams's "FDR and the Transformation of the Supreme Court"? My father's last publication was included in the latter.

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Know who he is? We've got his pants. We're number 1. We're number 1.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I thought I was wrong, but I called it.

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Check your pocket again. It's not there, but all of us have to check our pockets at least 712 times when we lose something

And to think, Jack saw them both!

Christian clergy who taught math in a yeshiva for 15 years here. It's true that most Jews don't think about Jesus. It's also true that most cultural Christians don't think about him much, either.

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Almost every school has a policy that if ANY intruder enters the building, we go on full lockdown. I guarantee that if certain people intrude, my school will.

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Of course, girls waiting to have sex is also a problem for MAGA.

This would be terrible except for two facts: 1. The vaccine was given to girls aged 13-15 2. It wasn't given to girls who were already sexually active. Shockingly, it turns out that having sex before 15 more than doubles the chances you become pregnant before 25.

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But what about that study that found that people who got the shot didn't get pregnant? That's absolutely true. In the first cohort of American females to get the vaccine, those who received the vaccine has less than half the pregnancies of those who didn't.

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Someone really likes lard in their cereal. #BoarFatGruel

Here's one example: Rev. Emanuel Cleaver, the Democrat who represents the Kansas City area in the US House, is an ordained United Methodist minister. HE WAS PRESENT for Adam Hamilton's ordination (and mine as well).

Also, just for the hell of it, I searched Google for "country music artists named Akiva." The response: "There are no well-known mainstream country music artists named Akiva."

New challenge: guess the title of the Maccabeats parody of this song.

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Um, actually, it's for a Weber whose owner became vegetarian. #BereftGrill

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Change the hat, and I'm Rabbi Jake.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I stumbled onto a a black hat, black sunglasses, and a black necktie in my school's costume closet. I'm planning on variations of the Blues Brothers for the next few years.

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You learn pop culture when you're young so that, when you're old, you can use that pop culture knowledge to annoy the next generation of youth.

Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You should make them into old people who spend lots of time with young people. That way, they'll learn that one doesn't have to care about pop culture when they're old, but they'll also learn the most important reason to learn pop culture when they're young.

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He worked it out with a pencil.

Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand hexadecimal, and F the rest.

Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mathematician pickup line: Hey babe, what's your cosine?