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· Saturday, December 27, 2025 · 2 comments

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Steven L. Taylor
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter and/or BlueSky.

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  1. Jen says:
    Saturday, 27 December 2025 at 09:32

    As Daryl noted late yesterday, they are considering installing marble armrests at the Kennedy Center.

    This seems only marginally less idiotic than installing marble in the bathrooms of Eastern Airlines.

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  2. Gregory Lawrence Brown says:
    Saturday, 27 December 2025 at 09:40

    December 27, 1831
    Charles Darwin sets sail from England
    British naturalist Charles Darwin sets out from Plymouth, England, aboard the HMS Beagle on a five-year surveying expedition of the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Visiting such diverse places as the Galapagos Islands and New Zealand, Darwin acquired an intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, and geology of many lands. This information proved invaluable in the development of his theory of evolution, first put forth in his groundbreaking scientific work of 1859, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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