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Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
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About Steven L. Taylor
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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Top this one Bill: Kentucky man arrested after allegedly killing girlfriend and transporting her body parts to Illinois, police say
I left out all the gory details, but they are at the link.
A “good news” story for today: Kirkwood 10-year-old sells $20,000 in homemade masks, pours money into local businesses
A good read from The Atlantic: The True Story of the Married Woman Who Smuggled Her Boyfriend Out of Prison in a Dog Crate
Ex-RBG law clerk: my two favorite stories about Ginsburg
The U.S. Is on the Path to Destruction
Yup, burn baby burn.
Just before seeing the Atlantic article, I read this in the Star Trombone.
With climate change, Minnesotans fight for homes and cabins on a runaway lake
Of course in good Minnesota fashion, the losses are being, in part, socialized. Cabin owners of course being good up standing white folk and this problem is centered in real Minnesota.
@Teve: Thanx for that.
This is really a deserving tribute
the Glorious RBG
Trump says Biden is going to get performance enhancing drugs injected “in his ass” before the debate, raising the obvious question, what did they just inject trump with?
Trump straight taking cash from Qatar
@Teve:
When did we ever before have to listen to an alleged head of state discuss his opponent getting injections in the ass? Why are we subject to this unutterable vulgarity? Why does a quarter of the voting public find this vulgarity a sign of authenticity?
@CSK: Two days ago Trump was at a rally mocking Ali Velshi getting hit in the knee with a rubber bullet, and the crowd cheered.
These are stupid people with shitty values.
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m not going to try. That is today’s headline of the day. I am not feeling too well today, and there is golf and football this afternoon, so I may be back till tomorrow.
@Teve:
I keep forgetting that they loved it when he made fun of Serge Kovaleski’s disabled arm.
where QAnon meets Jesus Christ: Inside the “upside-down fantasy world” of Trump rallies
Trump, quoted at Forbes.
@Teve:
The defense–if one is offered–will be that he was just joking.
@OzarkHillbilly:
S’okay. What you included was gory enough to suit me. I can pass on the details just fine.
@OzarkHillbilly:
That’s so sweet. Like keeping a lock of her hair.
Politico reports Trump says he wants the federal judiciary to declare an election winner the night of November 3.
Posted w/o comment.
@Just nutha ignint cracker: There really are a lot more details in this “dismembered” story than I am used to reading. I’m not sure why they would include them. Maybe it’s the trump effect. People just aren’t so easily shocked anymore.
@Gustopher: I’d laugh, but it really is a bit too soon. I didn’t used to feel that way. I was one of the people telling Challenger jokes before all the pieces hit the ground. Maybe I’m just getting old.
This is an open forum so any subject is fair game, right. Guess what dude tried to cut his own hair? If you are chuckling already because you know what I am going to say next, yup…I goofed it up. I am paranoid about being in close proximity to anyone for an extended period (5 minutes or more) even if they are masked/shielded up so on a couple of occasions over the past several months I did a half-way okay (at best) job “trimming” my hair and since my hair was looking unruly I set out to do the same today.
The problem is that I never really had the correct equipment and was just using a beard trimmer and relying on my bathroom mirrors. I should have purchased an electric razor with the proper attachments and a mirror I could hold in my hand but of course I did not do that. Thankfully, I am a dude and after looking in the mirror I just said screw it and took it all off. I am now almost completely bald as I a have a layer of fuzz on my head now that will take weeks to grow out.
Has anyone on this forum, old, young, in-between (I will be 50 next year, so I guess I am in-between) found themselves in a similar predicament? I really am thankful that as a guy people will quickly get used to my new look vs a woman who has to be much more concerned with taming their locks during these calamitous times.
@inhumans99: I’ve cut my own hair and my kids’ hair since the pandemic started. The straight-haired kid did not fare so well, but the curly girl and I are fine, the curls cover up my mistakes for both of us.
@inhumans99: A friend of mine bought all the right equipment, and then didn’t connect the guard correctly so it fell off partway through and he shaved a patch. So it all went away.
My warning to all is to make sure to get the guard clipped on right.
I do half an inch on the sides, one inch on top, and it’s just long enough to mostly hide the bad blending.
@Gustopher: @OzarkHillbilly: Sorry, but I couldn’t resist after Gustopher’s comment. In defense of my decision, I didn’t read the article at all for the reasons that I gave, so I hope you understand that I’m not trying to offend you, Ozark.
@OzarkHillbilly: I just hope the jury can put all the pieces together.
A dismemberment is just such a reassuring throwback. The old fashioned horrible people exist, alongside the Nazis and the Covidiots, and the authoritarian boot lickers, and the president who bounces between apathetic and vengeful and let’s 200,000 Americans die. But here’s someone whose evil is simple — he kills someone and dismembers her, and there’s not 40% of America who think he’s doing a good job.
I’m not going to say we need more of that, but it’s almost a relief to have something simple. We don’t have to confront society’s views on race, my brothers aren’t all in favor of dismemberment guy, and while it does bring up the risks women face that men don’t, the dismemberment pulls it out of that sad story somehow.
We can all look at this man and say “well that’s fucked up.” I can’t think of anything else that unites such a large cross-section of Americans than a dismemberment.
Only like 50% tongue in cheek.
Well, everyone is united so long as the murderer(s) aren’t acting on orders of the Saudi Royal family and dismembering a Washington Post reporter who was originally from Saudi Arabia. Then apparently people are more conflicted.