Saturday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, August 27, 2022
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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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Good news to end the week, Season 3 of Lower Decks is out.
Heh: The Pelosi effect: foreign delegations queue up to visit Taiwan in defiance of China
36,000km in three days: $8,000 car rental charge shocks Canadian woman
Lighthouse keeper wanted for north-westerly corner of Britain
Sounds like the perfect job to me.
Unreal.
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Trigger warning: I threw up in my mouth.
Trae Crowder has a thing or 2 to say about student loans.
@OzarkHillbilly:
[CRT TRIGGER WARNING]
And 3 decades ago, that belief was pretty much true. And America hasn’t moved a significant distance on this type of issue, either, but most of the movement over the previous generation or so has been more positive than negative.
@OzarkHillbilly: The interesting problem for me is that I struggle to not read Eddie in LA and other whinging about this issue hearing their words in the same voice with the same inflections. But like I said about this in a post yesterday, I got no dog in this fight. Let everyone be fully convinced in their own minds.
@OzarkHillbilly:
And lo, Gawd placed a rainbow cloud in the sky to warn fundamentalists to cease their persecutions of LGBTQ people.
@Just nutha ignint cracker: I am not persuaded by, “I got fcked, therefor everybody else should get fcked to.” arguments. By that reasoning we should never try to make things better for anyone.
@Chip Daniels: HA! I wish I’d thought of that.
@Chip Daniels: There’s not a single fundy or evangelical in the whole world that would make that interpretation. Even if there was a Bible verse for it.
@OzarkHillbilly: And I don’t think that people like you and Eddie ARE persuaded by them. I’m just talking about the tone my inner voice hears* when I read comments about student loan forgiveness. What I hear is on me, but I suspect that people say thing occasionally without thinking that “what you heard is not what I meant.”**
*I’m one of the people who almost always hears a voice in my head when I’m reading. (Yeah. It really slows down reading speed, too. 🙁 )
**Part of the quip that I used as an epigraph for the section of my English 101 syllabus that explained how the study of grammar would take place. I generally intended it to be an answer to the comment: “Why do I need to study grammar? I speak English fluently.”