Lazy Sunday Tabs
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
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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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No time to read this now. I think the knife sharpening tools at the company’s meat packing plant might work on diagonal blades set in high wood frames.
Tesla stock P/E ratio is 296. That is utterly ludicrous for a company that is bleeding sales worldwide and hasn’t innovated anything in years.
For comparison, the average P/E ratio of the NASDAQ just before the dotcom bubble burst was 175.
The hoops Elmo has to jump thru to collect on that obscene pay package make it pretty apparent this is more publicity stunt than anything else.
On the KJZZ link:
Maybe the sheriff from Perry Co., TN should take a look at this so he understands what actual threats to schools look like.
I’m curious if either of these people will be investigated, much less jailed, for these threats.
It is comforting to know that TPUSA is continuing CK’s legacy of peddling inflammatory nonsense. Ya know, everything in its place, and all.
This whole “concerned parents” thing is maddening to me for so many reasons. But at this very moment, there are millions of parents who have concerns about real problems: providing basic needs for their children. But by all means, TPUSA, continue feeding paranoid delusions.
In the sports world, there’s a notion of “value above replacement”. That is how much does ballplayer X do for you over and above the replacement-level talent of a player, which is actually fairly easy to figure out.
Replacement-level talent as a CEO may be a little harder to figure out.
But nobody’s value above replacement is a billion bucks, let alone enough more than that that it is worthwhile to pay them a billion bucks.
Thing is, it’s probably all in stock incentives, so it doesn’t really cost the board much.
In my younger days, we did a lot of traveling in British Columbia. And we ran across a few ostrich farms. So I had to look up where this one was. But no, I’ve never been closer than 100 miles or so to it. That is a fairly remote area of BC.
It’s a small farm, and remote. So how does something like this ever get international press attention?
@Jay L. Gischer: Except Tesla is less of a company delivering a physical product than a lifestyle company delivering an image and an idea.
Musk is a cheerleader, to rally the stock price. The innovation he provides is being a shithead that gives a certain type of investor a woody.
Another man could not do that as well. (There are probably a handful who could, Trump, etc)
@becca: “The hoops Elmo has to jump thru to collect on that obscene pay package make it pretty apparent this is more publicity stunt than anything else.”
Then we should be all milking it for all the publicity it can get. If Democrats can’t win saying it’s obscene that one man should get paid the salary of seventeen MILLION people making the average salary at Tesla (that is one trillion divided by the $57,000 average) , then they might as well just give up.
@Jay L. Gischer: “So how does something like this ever get international press attention?”
A rich white famous person mentioned it. That’s how the press works these days.