THE MORNING RANT: Governor Abbott vs Texas State University: The Taxpayer-Funded School Is Determined to Staff a University P.R. Position with a Foreign H-1B

The H-1B issue has become a major issue, as Americans, especially conservative Americans, are fed up with employers bringing in non-citizens from foreign countries to displace American workers. The appeal of H-1B labor for those abusing it is usually for one of the following reasons:

1) It’s a form of chattel labor, in which the H-1B worker is paid less than American prevailing wages while being a de facto indentured servant, because he cannot go seek other employment.

2) A way for those of an anti-American bent to provide employment in the United States to preferred foreign demographics.

As to the 2nd reason, the rampant anti-Americanism at colleges is well-documented, so of course there are universities hiring non-Americans whenever they can. A taxpayer-funded university in the state of Texas, however, should not be one of those universities.

Texas State University just posted an H-1B petition for a Public Relations job paying $73k per year. Texas State is located in the beautiful Hill Country city of San Marcos, close to both Austin and San Antonio. But the school is arguing that there is not a single person in the entire United States who can do this job, much less someone among the 5 million residents of the nearby metro areas who wouldn’t even need to relocate.

By the way, Texas State offers a degree in Public Relations to a student body that is overwhelmingly Texan (over 90%), but by petitioning for the H-1B, the school is arguing that there is not a single Texan who graduated from Texas State that can do public relations for their alma mater.

Texas State University (@txst) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Public Relations administrator

Salary: $72,000

Nobody in Texas was qualified for this job.

Texas State offers a bachelor's degree in Public Relations. pic.twitter.com/eCJAhMzwbV
— Chris Brunet (@chrisbrunet) August 12, 2026

After the H-1B issue started heating up last year, Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive in January 2026 prohibiting state agencies and universities from petitioning for new H-1B positions until May 31, 2027, thus putting a stop to H-1B hirings until the legislature meets again and can address the issue.

No state agency controlled by a gubernatorially appointed head or public institution of higher education shall, without the written permission of the Texas Workforce Commission, initiate or file any new petition to sponsor a nonimmigrant worker under the federal H-1B visa program until the end of the Texas Legislature’s 90th Regular Session on May 31, 2027.

But Texas State is so committed to not hiring a U.S. citizen for this position that it’s arguing the governor’s directive doesn’t apply, because this is not technically a new H-1B petition. The job is currently held by a non-citizen whose visa expires in 2027, and Texas State wants to renew the visa for this person. S/he never should have been hired in the first place, but in arguing that this person’s visa needs to be renewed, Texas State is also arguing that there are no U.S. citizens who can do this job:

“Texas State defends H-1B visa renewal after criticism from GOP lawmaker” [Austin American Statesman – 8/18/2026]

The San Marcos-based university drew criticism this week after officials posted an H-1B renewal notice for a staffer. That person’s visa will expire in 2027. The university asserted that the renewal was compliant with Abbott’s order, which applies only to new visas.

I rarely wish I were an elected official, but I would love to be governor of Texas right now. I would call Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse to my office and ask him which of these options he will pursue:

1) Fire the person responsible for filling this university P.R. position with an H-1B.
2) Resign.

If Damphousse refused to do either, I would then call the Chancellor of the Board of Regents to my office and give him similar options:

1) Immediately fire the President of Texas State.
2) Immediately get fired by me.

In taking a quick look at the resume of Kelly Damphousse, it turns out he is apparently not a U.S. citizen either. He’s a Canadian, for whom there is no record I could find of him forsaking his foreign allegiance to become a U.S. citizen. That might explain a lot about why Texas State is hostile to hiring U.S. citizens.

There is some good news resulting from Texas State’s defiance of the governor. Greg Abbot just announced that when the legislature convenes after the November elections, he will now demand that it pass legislation permanently banning H-1B employees in any state agency or public school, to include the elimination of existing H-1B positions.

Because Texas State is so obstinate in trying to protect one foreigner doing P.R. work at the school, every single H-1B position with a state of Texas paycheck is about to be replaced by a U.S. citizen.

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Speaking of Texas institutions, blog favorite Monte Warden played the Opry again this past Saturday night, with conservative superstar Mollie Hemingway providing backup vocals.

There is no correlation of course, but since The Federalist and I started covering the Warden family’s legal battles against the Austin Independent School District (due to its institutionalized “reverse discrimination") Monte has been on a tear. He currently has a song (“Doghouse Flowers") near the top of the Americana charts, he’s performing on a frequent rotation at the Opry, and his rockabilly band, The Wagoneers, just released their first album since 1989. (Monte also has a retro-jazz band, The Dangerous Few, that has released several recent albums.)

Sing on! pic.twitter.com/LVm0VuZaOV
— Conservative Candor (@RepublicanGold) August 18, 2026

I just purchased the Doghouse Flowers EP at Apple (itunes.) It's such a treat to finally get a new Wagoneers album. How 'bout not waiting another 37 years for the next @TheWagoneers album?

Blessings to you and everyone at the Opry this weekend. @deTokeville1 https://t.co/5nHrYUZP26 pic.twitter.com/JNchcKTFX7
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) August 10, 2026

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)

2 Alas, the titties are in the past.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:00 AM (ccf/V)

3 Will go lum NOOD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

4 Sponge, with the hat trick!

Nicely done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2026 11:01 AM (Q45uQ)

5 Texas State University (@txst) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Public Relations administrator

Salary: $72,000

Nobody in Texas was qualified for this job.

Texas State offers a bachelor's degree in Public Relations.

Oh FFS........

My daughter and my money go there........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)

6 I wonder if this is a trailing spouse role…

Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2026 11:04 AM (ZdaMQ)

7 Texas State offers a bachelor's degree in Public Relations.

Oh FFS........

My daughter and my money go there........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)

Is she majoring in public relations?

Posted by: That would be extra funny at August 21, 2026 11:04 AM (TbWk/)

8 H-1Bs need to be banned. End of story.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)

9 Oh FFS........

My daughter and my money go there........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:02 AM

I recall our classic rock station's morning drive show did a great parody of "Stuck in the Middle With You" as "Stuck With a Kid at BU."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2026 11:05 AM (Q45uQ)

10 I rarely wish I were an elected official, but I would love to be governor of Texas right now. I would call Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse to my office and ask him which of these options he will pursue:

I believe he's actually Canadian, so he seemingly gives 2 f*cks for America First.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:05 AM (ccf/V)

11 I just read an article about my Alma Mater, William and Mary. They're DETERMINED to keep violating SCOTUS' DEI ruling. These people really do think the rules don't apply to them.

Of course, this is being done with the approval of Abigail Spanberger. I can't give them any less money.

Justice Department investigates College of William & Mary over alleged ‘race-based’ scholarships

https://tinyurl.com/2tpbfsbw

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

12 Huh...guess I should've read the ENTIRE post......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:06 AM (ccf/V)

13 I rarely wish I were an elected official, but I would love to be governor of Texas right now. I would call Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse to my office and ask him which of these options he will pursue:

1) Fire the person responsible for filling this university P.R. position with an H-1B.
2) Resign.

If Damphousse refused to do either, I would then call the Chancellor of the Board of Regents to my office and give him similar options:

1) Immediately fire the President of Texas State.
2) Immediately get fired by me.

We're not even considering a firing squad?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

14 Huh...guess I should've read the ENTIRE post......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:06 AM

*blinks*

Stone the heretic!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 21, 2026 11:06 AM (Q45uQ)

15 Hiring “outside” help has always seemed a little bit sketchy to me. School administrators, and Police Chiefs are two examples that spring to mind.

Promoting from the ranks is just not done, apparently. Whatever the reasons they claim, I am pretty certain there is something nefarious going on there.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2026 11:07 AM (bd3ok)

16 Huh...guess I should've read the ENTIRE post......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:06 AM

*blinks*

Stone the heretic!

Again. Firing squads.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

17 12 Huh...guess I should've read the ENTIRE post......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:06 AM (ccf/V)

And break with sacred tradition? Have you gone mad?

Posted by: You should know better by now! at August 21, 2026 11:07 AM (TbWk/)

18
Is she majoring in public relations?
Posted by: That would be extra funny at August 21, 2026 11:04 AM (TbWk/)

No. Digital media of some sort.

She really LOVES it down there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:08 AM (ccf/V)

19 Pretty sure Jayne Cobb was more qualified to do Public Relations than whoever they would get through a low-paying H1B visa. "Aw, hell, I was gonna get me an ear, too!"

Posted by: pookysgirl, Firefly fan at August 21, 2026 11:08 AM (Wt5PA)

20 It's amazing the things evil can do when a nation goes to sleep for half a century.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 21, 2026 11:08 AM (g8Ew8)

21 5 Texas State University (@txst) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Public Relations administrator

Salary: $72,000

Nobody in Texas was qualified for this job.

Texas State offers a bachelor's degree in Public Relations.

Oh FFS........

My daughter and my money go there........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)

Time to light up their complaint line!

Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2026 11:09 AM (tOcjL)

22 Damphousse started, I think, the tradition of riding a Harley onto the field before football games, which is actually pretty cool when witnessed live.

So there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:09 AM (ccf/V)

23 H-1B visas should be banned as contrary to anti-slavery Amendments to the Constitution.

Posted by: ballistic at August 21, 2026 11:09 AM (oqH4h)

24 And break with sacred tradition? Have you gone mad?
Posted by: You should know better by now! at August 21, 2026 11:07 AM (TbWk/)

I don't know what I was thinking.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:09 AM (ccf/V)

25 I don't know what I was thinking.......
Posted by: Sponge

Your mind was still on the boobs in the Art Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

26 Hiring “outside” help has always seemed a little bit sketchy to me. School administrators, and Police Chiefs are two examples that spring to mind.

Promoting from the ranks is just not done, apparently. Whatever the reasons they claim, I am pretty certain there is something nefarious going on there.
Posted by: Common Tater

What pisses me off, is when the temporary "acting" is picked from within, but they are looking outside for permanent.

WTF? They try tapping me as acting, but won't look at me as permanent, they can KMA.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 11:11 AM (eYRW2)

27 Stone the heretic!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Does Sponge weigh as much as a duck?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 21, 2026 11:11 AM (G4kdj)

28 H-1B visas should be banned as contrary to anti-slavery Amendments to the Constitution.

Posted by: ballistic at August 21, 2026 11:09 AM (oqH4h)

Good angle of attack!

Posted by: pookysgirl wishes she'd thought of that at August 21, 2026 11:11 AM (Wt5PA)

29 6 I wonder if this is a trailing spouse role…
Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2026 11:04 AM (ZdaMQ)

If it is, they have had plenty of time to naturalize...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2026 11:11 AM (tOcjL)

30
Your mind was still on the boobs in the Art Thread.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:12 AM (ccf/V)

31 Is she majoring in public relations?
Posted by: That would be extra funny at August 21, 2026 11:04 AM (TbWk/)

No. Digital media of some sort.

She really LOVES it down there.
Posted by: Sponge

TSU = #1 party school in Texas. (Or was)

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 11:12 AM (eYRW2)

32 And the name of the Provost of Texas State University is Pranesh Aswath.

Posted by: So there's that at August 21, 2026 11:12 AM (2Ez/1)

33 I worked with an H-1B mechanical engineer. He couldn't do the job and he could barely speak English.

Not a bad guy just, he lacked qualifications. I tried to help him out but the compay ran him out and I ended up with his job, that cocksucker.

Good luck with your immigration policies.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 11:13 AM (tvdD1)

34 And the name of the Provost of Texas State University is Pranesh Aswath.

Probably big in cattle.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

35
TSU = #1 party school in Texas. (Or was)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 11:12 AM (eYRW2)

That was when it was SWT. They changed their name to try and change their 'image.'

I've been down there.....the lack of serious checking of ID's at bars leads me to believe they don't really give a shit about changing their image one bit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:13 AM (ccf/V)

36 Does Abbott have the gumption to take action? Seems like he'd be the final authority here. No?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 11:15 AM (2Cry5)

37 If Damphousse refused to do either, I would then call the Chancellor of the Board of Regents to my office and give him similar options:

1) Immediately fire the President of Texas State.
2) Immediately get fired by me.

I picture this conversation occurring immediately after you lay a large caliber handgun on the desk in front of you.

Posted by: Kratwurst at August 21, 2026 11:15 AM (9gKa/)

38 Who names their kid Pranesh?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 21, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)

39 I believe he's actually Canadian, so he seemingly gives 2 f*cks for America First.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:05 AM (ccf/V)

Damphousse. Sounds like a Froggie from Quebec. The worst kind.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 11:16 AM (1z8ji)

40 We're not even considering a firing squad?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2026 11:06 AM

May I suggest an alternative?

Posted by: zombie Vlad Tepes at August 21, 2026 11:17 AM (EU0L7)

41 I've done some partying at SWT St. Heh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2026 11:17 AM (1IhIV)

42 An H1-B candidate for the job will have NO CLUE how to perform the job.

Their primary audience is going to be native Texans.

The H1-B candidate will have no ability to relate to their audience and serve the needs of that audience.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 11:17 AM (FZ29D)

43 Well I’m not going to argue it should never happen, but it seems to me a local cop who worked his way up through the ranks from beat cop to sergeant, to detective or lieutenant and the rest if it, he knows the lay of the land and his department.

Hell, let the department vote on their replacement. That’s how the military used to do it, they would vote for who they wanted to be their squad leader.

Secret Peer ratings are kind of interesting. “Yes, of course you are the Most Qualified Awesome Individual. But other than yourself, who would you choose to lead?”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2026 11:17 AM (bd3ok)

44
Damphousse. Sounds like a Froggie from Quebec. The worst kind.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 11:16 AM (1z8ji)

My daughter happened to steal, among other shirts, my Hockey Hall of Fame shirt. She was wearing it on campus one day where she and a friend were stopped by him and he high fived her for wearing it. She claimed to have been there, which I vehemently reprimanded her for..... LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:18 AM (ccf/V)

45 The H1-B candidate will have no ability to relate to their audience and serve the needs of that audience.
——-

That’s a feature, not a bug!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2026 11:18 AM (bd3ok)

46 No. Digital media of some sort.

She really LOVES it down there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:08 AM (ccf/V)

Ohboy. Does she realize that "AI" is going to make those positions scarce if not obsolete, as with graphic design, art design and illustration, sound design/engineering and a whole slew of other realms formerly occupied by the human creative spirit?

Posted by: We should rage against the machine at August 21, 2026 11:18 AM (TbWk/)

47 Hiring “outside” help has always seemed a little bit sketchy to me. School administrators, and Police Chiefs are two examples that spring to mind.
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Our little progressive town has been through a series of police chiefs and school superintendents. In each case, DEI hires, who proceeded to muck things up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2026 11:19 AM (XeU6L)

48 "Because Texas State is so obstinate in trying to protect one foreigner doing P.R. work at the school, every single H-1B position with a state of Texas paycheck is about to be replaced by a U.S. citizen."

Love it. Reminiscent of the teacher who punished everyone because no one knew anything.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at August 21, 2026 11:19 AM (JCLJi)

49 Damp mousse? Well,l you wouldn't want to eat that. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 11:20 AM (wzUl9)

50 Your mind was still on the boobs in the Art Thread.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:10 AM

There were boobs in the Art Thread?

Posted by: James Talarico at August 21, 2026 11:20 AM (EU0L7)

51 Ohboy. Does she realize that "AI" is going to make those positions scarce if not obsolete, as with graphic design, art design and illustration, sound design/engineering and a whole slew of other realms formerly occupied by the human creative spirit?
Posted by: We should rage against the machine at August 21, 2026 11:18 AM
****

We're sitting right here!

Posted by: Lawyers at August 21, 2026 11:21 AM (2Ez/1)

52 Who names their kid Pranesh?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Jugdish.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 11:21 AM (eYRW2)

53 Gee Cuckie Schumer says Sayed brings "new energy and new talent" to the Democrat Party in a show of "Democrat Unity". This is really some war. It's like Antietam.

If only someone could have described to you the exact shape this operation was taking when it started in earnest a few months back, or could tell you where it's going, so you can maintain what's left of your sanity when it does...

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 11:22 AM (ucYyF)

54 Immigrants just no long assimilate when they move here. They used to, but now they wear their "foreigness" like a badge of honor.

Posted by: Sharpie at August 21, 2026 11:22 AM (ZXa42)

55 I wish I'd gone to a party school and partied instead of taking everything so seriously. The party people had much better lives and life outcomes than I did. Bitter irony.

Posted by: I'll take my irony cold and bitter at August 21, 2026 11:22 AM (TbWk/)

56 Because Texas State is so obstinate in trying to protect one foreigner doing P.R. work at the school, every single H-1B position with a state of Texas paycheck is about to be replaced by a U.S. citizen.

This is outstanding. Indian H1Bs, you know, from the country that continually has collapsing bridges, land slides and failing streets, that one, they supply far too many "engineers" to Texas Department of Transportation to "design" roads and bridges for Texans.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 11:23 AM (+4Cf6)

57 Damphousse. Sounds like a Froggie from Quebec. The worst kind.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 11:16 AM

Worse than the Francophones in Montreal?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2026 11:23 AM (EU0L7)

58 Oh, yes. My former employer, a certain private university which shall remain nameless, was continually hiring foreigners for faculty positions (which is what I dealt with), requiring an H1-B. The fees for all that were not cheap, either, and yet my department was always complaining that they did not have funds enough for this or that.

Eventually the dean's office would pay for the fees and other recruiting costs) in the reimbursement process. But it was still wasted money to me. They'd have thousands of new Ph.D. applicants from American universities -- but somehow they had to have somebody from China or India.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 11:24 AM (wzUl9)

59 We're sitting right here!
Posted by: Lawyers at August 21, 2026 11:21 AM (2Ez/1)

Not for much longer. AI is going to do the overwhelming majority of the research monkey shit that brand new associates spend the first 2-3 years of their careers doing. Be interesting to see how that industry changes.

Posted by: Too many lawyers anyway at August 21, 2026 11:25 AM (TbWk/)

60 Who names their kid Pranesh?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Jugdish.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 11:21 AM

What am I, minced chicken liver?

Posted by: Rajeet at August 21, 2026 11:26 AM (EU0L7)

61 By the way, Texas State offers a degree in Public Relations to a student body that is overwhelmingly Texan (over 90%), but by petitioning for the H-1B, the school is arguing that there is not a single Texan who graduated from Texas State that can do public relations for their alma mater.
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Class action lawsuit by PR grads from Texas State is warranted.

At first, I wanted the criminal aliens gone. Then the left (and CoC GOP) defended them now I want every last non citizen in the US w/o a valid tourist visa to get the f*ck out.

Also at first, I understood that in order to make US companies the best in the world, we would benefit attracting top talent from around the world. Now that I see every convenience store/gas station cashier can barely speak English and finding out many came over on an H1B visa, I want all of them gone, from the C-suite to the janitor.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 21, 2026 11:26 AM (Dv3i1)

62 1) Fire the person responsible for filling this university P.R. position with an H-1B.
2) Resign.

And both include firing every single person involved with the Public Relations degree.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2026 11:26 AM (kYmoU)

63 They're not even hedging their bets against the jihadist. The fix must be in.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 11:27 AM (ucYyF)

64 H1-B candidate will have no ability to relate to their audience and serve the needs of that audience.

It's like you don't even understand who our audience really is.

Posted by: TSU at August 21, 2026 11:27 AM (Htufl)

65 These universities make massive money off of foreign student tuition.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 21, 2026 11:27 AM (3uBP9)

66 Kelly Damphousse

That's an actual name? It sounds more like a drag name, or a really seedy stripper name.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 21, 2026 11:28 AM (2ocoG)

67 Thx Buck.
The salary of the Texas State president is $915k. Tell the arrogant prick to hire a Texan using his salary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 11:28 AM (rp63B)

68 The party people had much better lives and life outcomes than I did. Bitter irony.

All of my life’s financial successes—and most of the rest—can be traced back to the people I hung out with in college; none from the specific degree itself, other than having one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2026 11:28 AM (kYmoU)

69 Something else is going on with this H1B position. In addition to the salary, it will cost the school probably tens of thousands in additional fees and admin costs.

That's an awful lot of money for a PR flack position that any imbecile could do.

This isn't some tech job where the employer can pretend that Prakesh from Bangalore is some genius wizard that's invaluable to the company.

It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

70 >>> Kelly Damphousse

That's an actual name? It sounds more like a drag name, or a really seedy stripper name.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 21, 2026 11:28 AM (2ocoG)

Callback to Ace's post about that leaky gal.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 21, 2026 11:29 AM (3uBP9)

71 The salary of the Texas State president is $915k. Tell the arrogant prick to hire a Texan using his salary

That gives an interesting slant to the board’s reaction to Dr. Evil’s “one million dollars”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2026 11:30 AM (kYmoU)

72 Class action lawsuit by PR grads from Texas State is warranted.

I'd broaden this to every student from every university with a worthless degree with a pile of student loan debt and no job prospects. Yes I realize that a lot of these folks are marginal people anyway but it doesn't absolve the higher education industry from the massive fraud they've been perpetrating for 50+ years.

Posted by: Organized crime with funny hats and tassels at August 21, 2026 11:31 AM (TbWk/)

73 Not for much longer. AI is going to do the overwhelming majority of the research monkey shit that brand new associates spend the first 2-3 years of their careers doing. Be interesting to see how that industry changes.
Posted by: Too many lawyers anyway
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Skilled researchers use terms and connectors, not natural language. AI is still not good at coming up with the necessary root words and coupling those with other root words in the same paragraph or within so many specified words.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 21, 2026 11:31 AM (l5HoH)

74 I get the feeling that there's an attitude among some of our self-labeled elites that they can ignore whatever the fuck they don't agree with and do whatever they want. Without consequences.

The judiciary would certainly agree with them.

Might be time to disabuse them of this idea.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 11:31 AM (2Cry5)

75 Worse than the Francophones in Montreal?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2026 11:23 AM (EU0L7)

Same as.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 11:31 AM (1z8ji)

76 Class action lawsuit by PR grads from Texas State is warranted.

It would be interesting to survey how many H1Bs at universities fill positions that the school has a degree in.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2026 11:31 AM (kYmoU)

77 Kelly Damphousse

That's an actual name? It sounds more like a drag name, or a really seedy stripper name.
Posted by: Ian S.

She goes on stage right after Musty Melons.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 11:32 AM (eYRW2)

78 On the morning thread, Whig said: "UK went broke fighting the NotSees."

I disagree. UK went broke fighting the Kaiser (WW1). It just became evident a few years later. Between the loss of productive manpower and resources spent in 4 years of idiotic trench war in France + assorted secondary theaters, the writing was on the loo.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 21, 2026 11:33 AM (Fv808)

79
It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:29

I am betting trailing spouse on a professor who is important in someone’s mind.

Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2026 11:33 AM (ZdaMQ)

80 These universities make massive money off of foreign student tuition.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 21, 2026 11:27 AM (3uBP9)
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TSU's not making that much off foreign students (yet).

96% of their students are from USA.

Surprisingly, their largest foreign population is from Nepal (followed by Bangladesh and then India).

Mexican students are a distant 4th.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 11:33 AM (FZ29D)

81 It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

Would you believe poon?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 11:34 AM (1z8ji)

82 AI is going to do the overwhelming majority of the research monkey shit that brand new associates spend the first 2-3 years of their careers doing. Be interesting to see how that industry changes.

Posted by: Too many lawyers anyway

This has been hilarious for me to watch.

Law school students are using AI to get through law school, only to enter the market and find out that AI is doing what baby lawyers would spend their first few years doing while they cut their teeth.

It's glorious.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 21, 2026 11:34 AM (PGK1w)

83 Britain arguably lost World War II. They didn’t fully end rationing till 1954

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2026 11:35 AM (bd3ok)

84 It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:29

I am betting trailing spouse on a professor who is important in someone’s mind.
Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2026 11:33 AM (ZdaMQ)
---
That's actually highly probable. My department hired someone like that. Fortunately, it turns out he's quite good at his job, so we're lucky to have him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 11:35 AM (FZ29D)

85 81 It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

I'd say the Canadian president is having an affair...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2026 11:35 AM (tOcjL)

86 It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

The Blade cuts right to the heart of the matter.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

87 H1-B candidate will have no ability to relate to their audience and serve the needs of that audience.

Isn't it a bit ironic that a PR hire is actually causing the very problems that a PR pro is hired to fix?

Look who came in first for damage control over the destruction of the Bud Light, Gillette, Campbell's Soup and Crackerbarrel marketing fiascos.

You want Pajeet, whose illegal alien brother with a fresh CDL killed a family with his truck to run PR for your university?

Is this "Must Hire an H1-B" supposed to be an OJT exercise?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 11:36 AM (U4c/V)

88 She goes on stage right after Musty Melons.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 11:32 AM (eYRW2)

Um, hello. It's MOLDY Melons.

- Stinky and Dirty

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 21, 2026 11:37 AM (PGK1w)

89 If there's one thing I know, it's that you definitely want your PR done by someone whose first language is not English and who did not grow up in American culture.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 21, 2026 11:38 AM (vTZFs)

90 Why would people want to get a degree in Pubic Relations?

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 21, 2026 11:38 AM (JM9I6)

91 So, PR is basically lying to cover your organization's and its executives' asses when there's a big screw up, right?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

92 Skilled researchers use terms and connectors, not natural language. AI is still not good at coming up with the necessary root words and coupling those with other root words in the same paragraph or within so many specified words.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 21, 2026 11:31 AM (l5HoH)

Legal research platforms (Westlaw and LexisNexis) have been moving away from Boolean operators toward natural language for quite some time. There are search commands to find more narrow combinations of things, but natural language is pretty much the default now.

Posted by: Things will keep moving to slop at August 21, 2026 11:38 AM (TbWk/)

93 It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:29

I am betting trailing spouse on a professor who is important in someone’s mind.
Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2026 11:33 AM (ZdaMQ)
____

Yea, or a goomah that someone needs to keep in the country

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

94 Um, hello. It's MOLDY Melons.
_____

She was known as Ripe Melons back in the day. Sad.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 21, 2026 11:39 AM (Dv3i1)

95 Why would people want to get a degree in Pubic Relations?

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 21, 2026 11:38 AM (JM9I6)

To be Press Secretary to the President?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 21, 2026 11:39 AM (PGK1w)

96 Interesting Art thread I missed.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 21, 2026 11:40 AM (zafwz)

97 I believe he's actually Canadian"

He's a "world citizen". Assmunch.

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 11:40 AM (5rIrH)

98 Might be time to disabuse them of this idea.

After the next team meeting under the Tree of Liberty

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 11:40 AM (pawvM)

99 Every large company has a solid PR team. It’s a decent job.

Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2026 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

100 Damphousse ... was wondering why that was familiar, then it clicked.

Vinnie Damphousse, played for the Leafs and Canadiens, back when I still watched the NHL.

Posted by: far cry at August 21, 2026 11:40 AM (fmbc9)

101 I'd say the Canadian president is having an affair...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 21, 2026 11:35 AM (tOcjL)

Points to 81.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 11:40 AM (1z8ji)

102 There are search commands to find more narrow combinations of things, but natural language is pretty much the default now.
Posted by: Things will keep moving to slop
________

And I never use it. Boolean is far superior.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 21, 2026 11:41 AM (l5HoH)

103 Why would people want to get a degree in Pubic Relations?
Posted by: Emily Litella at August 21, 2026 11:38 AM (JM9I6)
_______

It's a well-known gateway to leftwing NGOs and charities and similar make-work sinecures. Similar to "Communications."

I'll bet 75% of the students majoring in PR are nepos and layabouts.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

104 Natural language search - it's all Google's fault as they deprecated boolean search capability.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 11:42 AM (aJQbY)

105 It's a bullshit PR job paying not that much money. It makes no sense for the school to double and triple down like it is. Something else is going on.

Colleges and such are the critical arteries of the Left's infrastructure. Talent pipelines, cash flow, coordination, you name it. If "higher education" got cleaned out overnight, the Left might not collapse but it would enter full panic mode on a scale not seen since USAID.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 21, 2026 11:42 AM (OUMaO)

106 There could be something like, say, embezzlement going on in the PR department. Or, as some have mentioned, sex between employees, or them and students. Or farm animals.

Being Texas and all....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 11:43 AM (2Cry5)

107 Boolean Operator was a pretty decent Sade song.

Posted by: far cry at August 21, 2026 11:43 AM (fmbc9)

108 I'll bet 75% of the students majoring in PR are nepos and layabouts"

Duude. Dave's not here, man...

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 11:44 AM (5rIrH)

109 Natural language search - it's all Google's fault as they deprecated boolean search capability.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 11:42 AM (aJQbY)

Is there any search engine out there that still supports Boolean operators?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 11:44 AM (1z8ji)

110 Frankly, I sometimes use AI with conversation to get some statutory language, but never for case law. And using the services (e.g Westlaw) I still stick with Boolean type searches to really target relevant cases. But that requires knowing the search terms and that only comes form experience.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 21, 2026 11:44 AM (cHNrw)

111 Or farm animals.

Being Texas and all...."

That's funny.

*checks pmags

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 11:45 AM (5rIrH)

112 Boolean Operator was a pretty decent Sade song.
Posted by: far cry at August 21, 2026 11:43 AM (fmbc9)

Took my mom to a Sade concert once.

Sade left STRICT instructions not to be disturbed in her dressing room before the show.

I had to listen to the f*cking Diggable Planets for over 2 hours, with the same rhythm and same beat on every song and the complete waste of a horn section........She EVENTUALLY graced us with her presence.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:45 AM (ccf/V)

113 Boolean Operator was a pretty decent Sade song.

He’s programmed in seven languages
Heaven help him when he segfaults.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2026 11:46 AM (kYmoU)

114 Or, as some have mentioned, sex between employees, or them and students. Or farm animals.

Being Texas and all....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 11:43 AM (2Cry5)

HEY! We're not West Virginia.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:46 AM (ccf/V)

115 Boolean Operator was a pretty decent Sade song.
Posted by: far cry at August 21, 2026 11:43 AM (fmbc9)
____________

[Golf clap]

Back in the day, my brother and I had a video company that recorded things like weddings and big events. A popular song that made a comeback for use at weddings at the time was No Ordinary Love.

I was like "did none of you clowns actually listen to the lyrics??" It's not a wedding song. It's the opposite of a wedding song.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

116 It's funny because Emily posted "Pubic" and a few misread it as "Public."

~ BEN R

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 11:46 AM (J4Dwc)

117 HEY! We're not West Virginia....."

Or Scotland

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 11:48 AM (5rIrH)

118 "Skilled researchers use terms and connectors"

When I was at my old firm, we used Westlaw. Lexis rep gave us free lunch to listen to his pitch. My boss made me go (free lunch after all). I like Westlaw, dislike Lexis, and had no desire whatsoever to switch. So when question time came, after the usual, banal questions, I asked the rep to tell me how their boolean algebra functions. He looked at me like he didn't want to be there.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 21, 2026 11:48 AM (Fv808)

119 Boolean is far superior.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

I'm of two minds about this.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2026 11:49 AM (Y8Lgz)

120 was No Ordinary Love."

IIRC, the vid was her and a sailor.

Brandy was better

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 11:50 AM (5rIrH)

121 Apropos of nothing - I appreciate my daughter's vigilance. When we were walking to school this morning, she immediately shifted gears from her normal Cute Kid Skipping Around Mode into Berserker Mode, and ran at a manhole cover and started stomping the shit out of it in her little Paw Patrol shoes.

I caught up and checked it out. Total overkill. Just a little stinkbug. She caught sight of this little bastard from a good 14' away and went hard in the paint, though.

I was then treated to breathless, tendentious rodomontade about stinkbugs, how one put her and her friend to flight after spraying the friend with its stink, and how her friend cried, but then they escaped and she comforted the friend, and now all stinkbugs must pay with their stinky lives.

That's my baby.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 11:50 AM (BI5O2)

122 So their PR person is getting them bad PR?

What is it, exactly, that you say you do here?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 21, 2026 11:50 AM (71lKy)

123
Brandy was better
Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 11:50 AM (5rIrH)

Her eyes were spread apart like that alien in the bar in that Star Wars movie......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:51 AM (ccf/V)

124 HEY! We're not West Virginia....."

Or Scotland
Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 11:48 AM (5rIrH)
_______

"Meh"

-- Gaza

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

125 I exclusively use boolean. I know how judges write, I know what I want to include and exclude, and what specific words a particular opinion (or set of opinions) might have.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 21, 2026 11:51 AM (Fv808)

126 Pubic Learing Center.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2026 11:51 AM (2MN4W)

127 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 11:50 AM (BI5O2)

That's cool.

Is she still stealing your tools?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

128 Pubic Learing Center.
Posted by: Boss Moss

That would be most high schools.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (Y8Lgz)

129 WW1 was the biggest stupidest "elite" caused calamity to ever befall mankind. For no good reason "elite" idiocy destroyed something that was working just fine and most if not all of our current problems stem directly from it. Most of the "elite" of that time even ruined their own positions, although as it usually goes, most of their descendants still have money despite their ancestors dismal failures.

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (3/XaG)

130 This is a hard one.

@libsoftiktok 1h
BREAKING: Multiple injured in sword attack at a school in Fagersta, Sweden

Police are not releasing details of the suspect.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (diia5)

131 >School administrators, and Police Chiefs are two examples that spring to mind

Both contexts where internal politics and corruption are systemic problems, so if you want to get rid of those you bring in someone from outside.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 21, 2026 11:53 AM (LgYtf)

132 This is a hard one.

@libsoftiktok 1h
BREAKING: Multiple injured in sword attack at a school in Fagersta, Sweden

Police are not releasing details of the suspect.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (diia5)
__________

I wasn't me ...

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

133 @libsoftiktok 1h
BREAKING: Multiple injured in sword attack at a school in Fagersta, Sweden

Police are not releasing details of the suspect.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (diia5)

Nor the fact that the assailant yelled 'allahu ackbar' during the attack.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:54 AM (ccf/V)

134 now all stinkbugs must pay with their stinky lives.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August

I support her 100%.

Posted by: Piper at August 21, 2026 11:54 AM (ZdaMQ)

135 Notice how you never see WW1 enactments? You've seen one gassed trench storm, you've seen them all.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 21, 2026 11:54 AM (Fv808)

136 "An H1-B candidate for the job will have NO CLUE how to perform the job.

Their primary audience is going to be native Texans.

The H1-B candidate will have no ability to relate to their audience and serve the needs of that audience."

I could see if it was a marketing position for say overseas students. Might need someone with language skills and understanding of foreign countries where students come from.

But you don't need to do PR there, I think.

Posted by: Harun at August 21, 2026 11:54 AM (IuIym)

137 This looks like yet another attempt of chasing the mythical 5% customer base at the expense of the 95% actual customers.

TSU's primary customer base is TEXANS (92.5% of student body).

Overall, 95% are from USA.

Only 4-5% are from outside the country.

But somehow THEY are the preferred customers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 11:54 AM (FZ29D)

138 Police are not releasing details of the suspect.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (diia5)

Full of bullet holes hopefully.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 21, 2026 11:54 AM (71lKy)

139 Is she still stealing your tools?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

Not so much toolbox raiding anymore, thank G-d. But yeah when I have tools out for a project, I have to keep an eye out or they'll wander right away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 11:54 AM (BI5O2)

140 I saw I Wasn't Me open for Was Not Was at Summerfest in '96.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 11:55 AM (ccf/V)

141 *looks up rodomontade*

Well, that's my one new thing learned today.

Posted by: far cry at August 21, 2026 11:55 AM (fmbc9)

142 Good post at GP with Eli Honig telling Jake from Propaganda Farm that given that Michael Cohen felt pressured by Bragg the case has to be reversed.
It's still on appeal. I've taken a couple of cases to the NYS Appellate Division and it never takes more than six months for a decision. This thing has been sitting there for a couple of years

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 11:55 AM (rp63B)

143 That's my baby.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 11:50 A

Raising her well, you are.

Posted by: Yoda at August 21, 2026 11:55 AM (Q45uQ)

144 This is a hard one.

@libsoftiktok 1h
BREAKING: Multiple injured in sword attack at a school in Fagersta, Sweden

Police are not releasing details of the suspect.

Clearly a ronin.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2026 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

145 *looks up rodomontade*

Well, that's my one new thing learned today.
Posted by: far cry

Rejected lyrics for Irving Berin's Easter Parade:

"You'll rant about cod
In your rodomontade"

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

146 > now all stinkbugs must pay with their stinky lives.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August

I support her 100%.
Posted by: Piper
-----------
It'll be stinkbug season here shortly. That's when they cluster around doors and windows trying to get inside before winter sets in. They're a menace.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 11:58 AM (2Cry5)

147 WW1 was the biggest stupidest "elite" caused calamity to ever befall mankind. For no good reason "elite" idiocy destroyed something that was working just fine and most if not all of our current problems stem directly from it. Most of the "elite" of that time even ruined their own positions, although as it usually goes, most of their descendants still have money despite their ancestors dismal failures.
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (3/XaG)

The lead up to WWI was a total clusterfuck with inbred retarded aristocrats doing the retarded things that inbred retarded aristocrats do. And then the children and friends of the inbred retarded aristocrats, also inbred and retarded, running the military and diplomatic aspects of the war, in retarded fashion.

Posted by: Smoothbrain toffs in charge. Much like now. at August 21, 2026 11:58 AM (TbWk/)

148
72 y/o woman went to Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville for a knee replacement. She is now paralyzed from the chest down.

The epidural she received was filled with potassium chloride instead of bupivacaine.

Hospital president and CEO is Dr. Shubhada Jagasia.

Posted by: four seasons at August 21, 2026 11:58 AM (/QHx4)

149 There are cases that justify hiring H1B. PR at $75k/year isn't one of those.

Here's what I would implement:
You really need to hire via H1B? Ok. $100,000 fee to the feds for the first year, $200,000 for the second year. No third year. That should give you enough time to wring out whatever specialized knowledge your H1B provides and let an American handle it from there.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 21, 2026 11:58 AM (MsIGe)

150 Notice how you never see WW1 enactments? You've seen one gassed trench storm, you've seen them all.

Knights of the Dinner Table has (or had) a running gag about a never-ending Great War war-game in the basement of the Games Pit, with the two final players duking it out over gains measured in feet.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2026 12:00 PM (kYmoU)

151 Natural language search - it's all Google's fault as they deprecated boolean search capability.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 11:42 AM (aJQbY)

Kind of a reverse "obscure the text with symbols" gambit.

Instead of needing to obscure text you don't want searched, just font let people search for the text...

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 12:00 PM (ucYyF)

152 H1B people are indentured servants. I thought the 13th amendment had something to say about that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 12:00 PM (rp63B)

153 don't let. I guess font was Freudian. Or autocorrect trying to be very clever.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2026 12:00 PM (ucYyF)

154 This is a great essay...I have been sitting by on hold for 30 minutes to speak with a rep from the Texas Comptrollers Office and I got through the call while waiting to post. I bet the person on that end was sitting in an office at TSU.

TSU is a bullshit college. It graduated LBJ and he eventually turned it into an extension of the Texas government. For many years it ran in the background of several agencies, TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) being one of them. It serves as a public school teacher mill and is as liberal as a campus can be (up there with North Texas U in Denton).

It used to be the party school of Texas when it was Southwest Texas State U and probably held the highest rate of STDs of all campuses in the state.

Posted by: DanMan at August 21, 2026 12:01 PM (8uzBS)

155 The lead up to WWI was a total clusterfuck with inbred retarded aristocrats doing the retarded things that inbred retarded aristocrats do. And then the children and friends of the inbred retarded aristocrats, also inbred and retarded, running the military and diplomatic aspects of the war, in retarded fashion.
Posted by: Smoothbrain toffs in charge

If Bismarck had still been alive and in power, that war never would've happened.

The Kaiser was a loon.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

156 wait until Abboott finds out about how many of the UMC--state university medical centers-- are stuffed to the gills with H1B visas.
It would not shock me if the hospitals in Houston were 50% foreign.

you know, the state-funded training schools for medical students ... can't find doctors and nurses.

He needs to get rolling on that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2026 12:01 PM (3cUTc)

157 Police are not releasing details of the suspect.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (diia5)

Full of bullet holes hopefully.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It's Sweden. I doubt it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 12:02 PM (eYRW2)

158 If Bismarck had still been alive and in power, that war never would've happened.

The Kaiser was a loon.
Posted by: Bulg

Do you buy the idea that the Kink™ of England was his best bud and tried to talk him out of it?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 12:02 PM (diia5)

159 The is a World Class UNI just up the road 60 miles

Overview of the Public Relations Degree Plan at UT Austin
The Public Relations degree at the University of Texas (UT) focuses on strategic communication and includes a blend of core courses and practical experiences. This program is designed to equip students with essential skills for effective communication in various professional settings.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 21, 2026 12:03 PM (/+uur)

160 157 Police are not releasing details of the suspect.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 11:52 AM (diia5)

Full of bullet holes hopefully.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It's Sweden. I doubt it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 12:02 PM (eYRW2)

We will accept beaten to death with ski poles.

Posted by: Or forcefed salted licorice until kidney failure at August 21, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)

161 @155 just as all hell was about to break loose the Kaiser decided to tour Norwegian fjords on the royal yacht

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 12:04 PM (rp63B)

162 don't know if it has been mentioned, but it seems the guy who raised the issue of Arday's fabulism/plagiarism has been suspended by University of Ghent, and is under investigation for discrimination.

Posted by: barbarausa at August 21, 2026 12:04 PM (enw9G)

163 The Public Relations program at The University of Texas at Austin is ranked as the number one program in the country, offering excellent resources and a high employment rate for graduates.

NUMBER ONE

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 21, 2026 12:04 PM (/+uur)

164 Do you buy the idea that the Kink™ of England was his best bud and tried to talk him out of it?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

I've never heard about this.

I do know that he and Nicholas II had some telegraph correspondence over the matter after Russia had ordered partial mobilization.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

165
Full of bullet holes hopefully.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It's Sweden. I doubt it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 12:02 PM (eYRW2)

We will accept beaten to death with ski poles.
Posted by: Or forcefed salted licorice until kidney failure at August 21, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)

They yelled stop. A lot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:05 PM (ccf/V)

166 It was basically "whoa, it's just a stink bug, relax, baby," and then I got "HE DESERVED TO DIE AND I HOPE HE BURNS IN HELL AND HERE'S WHY!!!!"

I've been laughing about it for 4 hours.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 12:05 PM (BI5O2)

167 156 wait until Abboott finds out about how many of the UMC--state university medical centers-- are stuffed to the gills with H1B visas.
It would not shock me if the hospitals in Houston were 50% foreign.

you know, the state-funded training schools for medical students ... can't find doctors and nurses.

He needs to get rolling on that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2026 12:01 PM (3cUTc)

I saw where the NEW Internal Med Program at UTMB Webster TX had just 1 American Uni Intern.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 21, 2026 12:06 PM (/+uur)

168 PR

The job anyone can do poorly at and still be considered "successful."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 12:06 PM (2Cry5)

169 Apropos of nothing - I appreciate my daughter's vigilance. When we were walking to school this morning, she immediately shifted gears from her normal Cute Kid Skipping Around Mode into Berserker Mode, and ran at a manhole cover and started stomping the shit out of it in her little Paw Patrol shoes.

I caught up and checked it out. Total overkill. Just a little stinkbug. She caught sight of this little bastard from a good 14' away and went hard in the paint, though.

I was then treated to breathless, tendentious rodomontade about stinkbugs, how one put her and her friend to flight after spraying the friend with its stink, and how her friend cried, but then they escaped and she comforted the friend, and now all stinkbugs must pay with their stinky lives.

That's my baby.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 11:50 AM (BI5O2)

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LOL!

Next thing you know, she'll be shooting camel spiders with a SAW.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 21, 2026 12:06 PM (w65YX)

170 Texas State offers a bachelor's degree in Public Relations.

The job is for a Public Relations administrator. A paper-pusher, meeting-attender, and email-forwarder. If you can find the key on your keyboard, you're qualified.

Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2026 12:06 PM (UMWMT)

171 China uses birth tourism to gain future citizens of America.

India uses the H1-B visa system to gain entry.

America will be taken over by foreign countries without a shot being fired.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)

172 The Public Relations program at The University of Texas at Austin is ranked as the number one program in the country, offering excellent resources and a high employment rate for graduates.

NUMBER ONE
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 21, 2026 12:04 PM (/+uur)
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They just aren't allowed to work at TSU...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 12:07 PM (FZ29D)

173 Note to self: NEVER piss off YD's daughter.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

174 if you can find the 'return' key, that is. I guess less-than and greater-than characters are interpreted in PixySpeak.

Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2026 12:08 PM (UMWMT)

175 Paw Patrol shoes
This is becoming a millionaire and billionaire blog

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 21, 2026 12:08 PM (/+uur)

176 It used to be the party school of Texas when it was Southwest Texas State U and probably held the highest rate of STDs of all campuses in the state.
Posted by: DanMan at August 21, 2026 12:01 PM (8uzBS)

Yup. Back in the 80's when I went to college (yeah, I'm old), Southwest/Texas State U was the place to go if you weren't serious about getting a degree but you WERE serious about getting wrecked on a daily basis. I went to UT Austin instead.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 21, 2026 12:08 PM (ZgwKJ)

177 Ask your periodontist if Rodomontade is right for you.
Side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, loose stools, fever, headache and cannibalism.

Posted by: Big Fat Farma at August 21, 2026 12:09 PM (2Ez/1)

178 China uses birth tourism to gain future citizens of America.

India uses the H1-B visa system to gain entry.

America will be taken over by foreign countries without a shot being fired.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:07 PM (ccf/V)
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It's already happened in Europe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 12:09 PM (FZ29D)

179 The Public Relations program at The University of Texas at Austin is ranked as the number one program in the country, offering excellent resources and a high employment rate for graduates.

NUMBER ONE
Posted by: r hennigantx

A company PR person usually works hand in hand with the company legal department. They write something up and pass it by legal. Legal decides if it's ok as written and gives the green light or suggests something else.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 12:09 PM (eYRW2)

180 Note to self: NEVER piss off YD's daughter.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

Shit. Imagine who he sired a child with. P's and Q's, sir. P's and Q's.......mind them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)

181 ----
It's already happened in Europe.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 12:09 PM (FZ29D)

And we're allowing it.

Trump is attempting to curb it, but Big Inc. doesn't care.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:10 PM (ccf/V)

182 Note to self: NEVER piss off YD's daughter.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)
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No shit.

My eldest was the same way, LOL

It is an awesome thing to behold.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 21, 2026 12:10 PM (w65YX)

183 Melania has been "missing" for a month and get this... It's because of Trump's affair with Natalie Harp....Yeah... They're going there..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2026 12:10 PM (+gK6I)

184 don't know if it has been mentioned, but it seems the guy who raised the issue of Arday's fabulism/plagiarism has been suspended by University of Ghent, and is under investigation for discrimination.
Posted by: barbarausa at August 21, 2026 12:04 PM (enw9G)

The "rector" (odd way to spell "rectum") of the U. of Ghent is a filthy tranny, that ought to be gassed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2026 12:11 PM (1z8ji)

185 Both contexts where internal politics and corruption are systemic problems, so if you want to get rid of those you bring in someone from outside.
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As I pointed out, there are valid reasons to bring in someone from the outside. Just not every time, at all times, at all locations.

This sounds like an excuse. Plus I’ve never seen any evidence the outside help is an improvement.

They are always political animals, 4 Stars on the collar, and useless at best at cleaning up any perceived corruption. Nice in theory, lousy track record.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2026 12:11 PM (bd3ok)

186 Shit. Imagine who he sired a child with. P's and Q's, sir. P's and Q's.......mind them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)
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I can't even imagine...

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 21, 2026 12:11 PM (w65YX)

187 In taking a quick look at the resume of Kelly Damphousse, it turns out he is apparently not a U.S. citizen either. He’s a Canadian, for whom there is no record I could find of him forsaking his foreign allegiance to become a U.S. citizen. That might explain a lot about why Texas State is hostile to hiring U.S. citizens.
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Ya think?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 12:11 PM (RIvkX)

188 Melania has been "missing" for a month and get this... It's because of Trump's affair with Natalie Harp....Yeah... They're going there..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2026 12:10 PM (+gK6I)

So, they believe she KNOWS there's an affair going on and is willing to leave to let it continue?

I mean.....they think they're liberal swingers or something?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:12 PM (ccf/V)

189 Nood Jill Biden

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 12:12 PM (FZ29D)

190
If Bismarck had still been alive and in power, that war never would've happened.

The Kaiser was a loon.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

100%, but don't forget Wilhelm I. He was the right monarch, he was a Hohenzollern, and a progressive, he recognized his own inability to manage a nascent German State, and deferred to the visionary Bismarck and his talented technocrat Bleichröder to navigate the choppy waters that come with overturning a centuries-old continental order.

His son was vainglorious fool who rejected all that wisdom and just went YOLO.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 12:12 PM (BI5O2)

191 I guess less-than and greater-than characters are interpreted in PixySpeak.

Anything that looks like it could be an HTML tag gets eaten.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 21, 2026 12:12 PM (vTZFs)

192 They yelled stop. A lot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 12:05 PM (ccf/V)

The coppers in England would yell "Oi-Oi-Oi stop or I'll call in for an armed response unit which, by the way, should be here in about 15 minutes, because I'm not allowed to carry a gun!"

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 12:13 PM (J4Dwc)

193 The "rector" (odd way to spell "rectum") of the U. of Ghent is a filthy tranny, that ought to be gassed.

I think it's rector and rectee, but I don't have a dictionary handy.

Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2026 12:13 PM (UMWMT)

194 Noodish...

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 12:13 PM (XuXeR)

195

Melania had an event yesterday in the Rose Garden.

They are liars.

Posted by: four seasons at August 21, 2026 12:13 PM (/QHx4)

196 In my industry, H-1B's aren't a problem.

They just ship the whole job overseas.

Earlier this year, they shit-canned our entire US and European programming group except for management - and sent the jobs to India.

Posted by: Defenestratus at August 21, 2026 12:14 PM (WYStd)

197 That's my baby.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2026 11:50 AM (BI5O2)
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דור לדור

You must be so proud.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 12:14 PM (RIvkX)

198 The cure for a Damphousse is a dehumidifier.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2026 12:15 PM (Cqx++)

199 Employment status of 1 person in UT is not bigly important to me.
An absolutely shit new job openings for July is more important .Also 40 trillion dollar debt

Posted by: Paul at August 21, 2026 12:15 PM (8Ow3a)

200 Next thing you know, she'll be shooting camel spiders with a SAW.
****

Waste of ammo. Trench gun with 00buck.

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 12:15 PM (pHgC8)

201 38 Who names their kid Pranesh?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 21, 2026 11:16 AM

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The parents of a kid who hope he grows up to be a top-flight taster/certifier of pure cow urine.

Posted by: The_Hoser at August 21, 2026 12:16 PM (H4qGm)

202 PR is a dying field. It is intrinsically with journalism, which tumbling into the grave and taking PR with it. My point is some TSU graduate would love to take that temporary job for the resume.

BTW, why doesn't the H1B PR person speak for herself? That's the job, isn't it? Probably can't speak English fluently.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 21, 2026 12:18 PM (bX16E)

203 Send Damphousse and the H-1B back where they came from.

Riding a Harley onto the field, that's as good a beard as any.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2026 12:20 PM (3oLMy)

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