Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor 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).
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You know what else is not practical? Kidnapping every single one of those 8 million and putting them on a plane to El Salvador, while not making any mistakes. You will be rounding up US citizens while you are at it. You will be rounding up mothers and fathers. You will be rounding up people who were key employees. You will be rounding up people who were caregivers to elderly.
It’s not as though what you are doing is practical. I think you already know how Unamerican it is, though, so I won’t bother to reiterate.
I have a Rolex, a GMT master that I have worn for more than 50 years. I bought in Hong Kong in the summer of 1968, while on R&R from Viet Nam. It cost me $155. I could have bought the solid gold presidential at that time for $300, gold was $35 an oz. For those pilots who were able to get R&R in Hong Kong, buying a Rolex and a Nikon F camera was the thing.
A few years later while in law school I managed to break the crystal allowing moisture to get in and I had to send it to Switzerland for a factory rehab and it cost me almost exactly what I originally paid. About two years ago it was finally time to send it back to the factory for a complete overhaul and it cost slightly over $2,000. I thought long and hard about just putting it in the drawer and forgetting about the rebuilt but when I checked the resale value and saw it was over $13,000 I went ahead and had it done. As a time piece it gains about 3 minutes every two months and I have to reset the date after every 30 day month. The $29 analog Timex I bought at Walmart to wear while the Rolex was in Switzerland is in my drawer and after 2 years has never been reset and is still accurate to the minute.
I used to like Casio LCD multifunction watches. I had several with the infamous calculator, one with a simple game which I don’t even remember.
Around 20 or so years ago, I stopped wearing a watch, because these days there are too many other ways to tell the time: on the PC, the phone, the car, the microwave, the TV, the cable box. About the only time I was unable to tell the time, was on a flight back when phones had to be OFF, not even on airplane mode. It must have been 2006 or so.
FEED ME!
Re: the Axios piece, if a Democrat wins a special election in a +30 Trump district, that’s…certainly a sign.
Dear Brian Kilmeade,
You know what else is not practical? Kidnapping every single one of those 8 million and putting them on a plane to El Salvador, while not making any mistakes. You will be rounding up US citizens while you are at it. You will be rounding up mothers and fathers. You will be rounding up people who were key employees. You will be rounding up people who were caregivers to elderly.
It’s not as though what you are doing is practical. I think you already know how Unamerican it is, though, so I won’t bother to reiterate.
I have a Rolex, a GMT master that I have worn for more than 50 years. I bought in Hong Kong in the summer of 1968, while on R&R from Viet Nam. It cost me $155. I could have bought the solid gold presidential at that time for $300, gold was $35 an oz. For those pilots who were able to get R&R in Hong Kong, buying a Rolex and a Nikon F camera was the thing.
A few years later while in law school I managed to break the crystal allowing moisture to get in and I had to send it to Switzerland for a factory rehab and it cost me almost exactly what I originally paid. About two years ago it was finally time to send it back to the factory for a complete overhaul and it cost slightly over $2,000. I thought long and hard about just putting it in the drawer and forgetting about the rebuilt but when I checked the resale value and saw it was over $13,000 I went ahead and had it done. As a time piece it gains about 3 minutes every two months and I have to reset the date after every 30 day month. The $29 analog Timex I bought at Walmart to wear while the Rolex was in Switzerland is in my drawer and after 2 years has never been reset and is still accurate to the minute.
@Jay L Gischer:
The MAGAts may not care, as long as only people of color get mistreated this way.
Someone at Tufts got kidnapped, too.
@a country lawyer:
I used to like Casio LCD multifunction watches. I had several with the infamous calculator, one with a simple game which I don’t even remember.
Around 20 or so years ago, I stopped wearing a watch, because these days there are too many other ways to tell the time: on the PC, the phone, the car, the microwave, the TV, the cable box. About the only time I was unable to tell the time, was on a flight back when phones had to be OFF, not even on airplane mode. It must have been 2006 or so.
Nice little nod to Kevin Drum.