Lazy Sunday Tabs
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, August 17, 2025
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5 comments
- If only people had been warned.
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).
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Regarding the call to a Norwegian politician. The guy from Norway should have reminded Trump that it gets cold and dark in the winter in Norway. A gratis stay for the whole family at Mar-a-Lago for the month of February would give him a better chance to discuss this issue. To paraphrase Blagojevich, a politician that Trump likes, when you have something good, you don’t give it away for nothing.
Re Senator Kennedy, that Foghorn Leghorn act has a law degree from Oxford. Trump really is ignorant. Kennedy is an act, he knows better. He’s knowingly aiding and abetting the destruction of democracy just to further his own career.
@gVOR10:
Maybe he’s just consumed by hate, and is more willing to give up on democracy than live in a country where Black, brown, and queer folk have equal rights? And definitely not women.
There are countless jobs that don’t involve flying that much, have more power (if you are afraid to use your power, lest Trump point his goons at you, you have no power), have more consistent hours, and don’t require sucking up to donors. I think a lot of them are True Believers.
He may be lying right here, and know he’s lying, but lying is just a tool, like a hammer.
When the guy in the park has ‘sensual’ chats with kids, we get the police involved.
We really put up with a lot of things from corporations that we would not accept from individual people. It’s like how we treat wage theft as a civil matter if even that, but shoplifting as a criminal matter.
I don’t want a vast regulatory framework that ends up tracking what everyone does online. First, we already do that freelance, and second, the collateral damage on individual freedoms would be far too great.
But do I think that if we generally let criminal charges pierce the corporate veil in other circumstances where there wouldn’t be so much collateral damage, and prosecuted managers and owners when corporations broke the law, we would create a culture of greater personal responsibility inside corporations.
I recently read someone saying it’s impossible to be tense in a room with a sleeping cat. That recurring heading pic is about the most relaxed, and relaxing, thing I’ve ever seen. Always makes me smile. Great work, Steven.