Chris Heard

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@Mal_Hibou Owen Wilson

If you're making a biopic of George Pepperdine, who do you cast in the lead role?

Is there a model for a sustainable #OpenAccess journal that doesn’t rely on APCs? In my field, scholarship is rarely grant-funded, and most of my colleagues don’t have $1200 lying around to pay an APC, no matter how much they believe in the OA ideal.

Why can’t major news outlets ask Pat Cipollone how he pronounces his family name, and pronounce it that way consistently? I just heard an anchor on a major cable news network (not that one) pronounce it differently in two successive sentences.

Would a sentence made up entirely of Google Docs autocomplete suggestions be plagiarized?

I just wrote an email that mentioned something about “punishments attached” to certain behaviors, and Gmail wanted to know where the file attachment was.

@MarkHMcEntire No. The “would-be Kavanaugh assassin” didn’t have a Congressional escort.

@ptchat Haven’t seen the show yet, but maybe the friend (or the screenwriter) is just keeping things in the same temporal frame? Most of what schoolkids learn about ancient Greece and Rome is pre-Constantine, is it not?

But "Byzantium" is the ancient Greco-Roman name of a city that has been known as "Istanbul" since it was conquered by Muslims almost 600 years ago. (What was that about history being written by the oppressors, again?) So, hmmm. 2/2

#MsMarvel's best friend complains in today's episode that high-school history class is full of lessons about ancient Greece and Rome but has almost nothing to say about Persia or "Byzantium". She then adds, "History is written by the oppressors". 1/2

Sometimes I just want to scream “based ON” into the void.

@rickgib @Mal_Hibou Some might be concerned that those “roots” could become “hedges” to constrain academic freedom. Ironically, Pepperdine can offer *more* academic freedom than many Christian colleges precisely *because* of CoC heritage.

@Mal_Hibou There are really good reasons to remain rooted the CoC and the big idea. Spirituality and rationalism. Highest standards of Academic excellence and Christian values. Refuse to choose. But that’s not the story we’re telling. #wakeuppepperdine

At April's meeting of the University Faculty Council, GSEP reps questioned why a university-wide policy under consideration should say that Pepperdine "must remain rooted" in the Churches of Christ. Do they just hate me, or what?

@drleahpayne Not squarely in this category but Audrey Asssad’s transformation of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” into “Your Peace Will Make Us One” is really remarkable.

What is your fave #ccm cover of a #generalmarket hit?

@drleahpayne The Young Escape’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” is really quite good.

@ReligionProf Interestingly, protest and intercession for Ishmael is exactly how Abraham is shown responding in Gen 18 when God announces Isaac’s on the way.

“If I were to construct a hierarchy of possible responses that Abraham might have made to God’s request to sacrifice his son, I would put protest and intercession on behalf of Isaac at the top of the list, as the optimal response.” —J. Richard Middleton bit.ly/3MTw0Ch

@DeityShe Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)

5 songs I* could listen to every day - feel free to participate. 1. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin 2. Breaking the Girl - Red Hot Chili Peppers 3. Rest In Peace - Dorothy 4. Fear Inoculum - Tool 5. Torn in Two - Breaking Benjamin

So GOP lawmakers can’t trust teachers to teach kids about race or gender, but want them to carry guns to school? smh

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Oh yeah. No proper nouns.

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@StreetLevelTech @Dr_Dzeguze @TheTattooedProf No, he just thought it was a “how to.”

@Dr_Dzeguze @TheTattooedProf Post hoc ergo propter hoc...I remember learning about this fallacy in middle school. Ross must have been out sick when they taught that lesson.

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