Tuesday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a 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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Another perfect Memorial Day message:
Trump is a classless pig, always has been, always will be.
Younger troops get more vasectomies after Dobbs decision, study finds
I don’t know. Correlation does not mean causation. Suspect the waning of the pandemic had more impact.
Florida’s LGBTQ+ residents relieved after easing of DeSantis’s anti-gay laws
Can you say “roadkill”? Pretty soon he’ll be hawking gold on TV alongside Flynn, Lindell, and trump.
In today’s “I’m sorry, WTF” segment:
I ordered a bunch of satchels for spices. The shipping options were around $4.50 for next day delivery, or $5.50 for delivery on June 3rd.
Who pays more for a later delivery?
I wonder what the over/under is on his moving after the election.
At Texas GOP convention, Republicans call for spiritual warfare
So when everything goes to shit, don’t blame me. God made me do it.
@Scott:
Eric Trump’s message was worse:
http://www.rawstory.com/eric-trump-disgusting-memorial-day-weekend/
He claims the Trump family “gave up everything to save America.”
@Scott:
There you have it — an influx of people who are overwhelmingly devout Christians constitutes “a war on Christianity.”
Jesus wept.
@CSK: Well sure, last I heard he was sleeping under an I-95 bridge now.
@DrDaveT:
Something wrong with your doublethink? Obviously brown and black Catholics are a weapon of war against WHITE (real) Christians. Doubleplusungood.
Ok. I think I need to take a shower now.
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m getting the impression – vague, multiple sources, tea leaves – that Brits think Sunak just wants to be done with it all, that he is giving himself a quick ‘out’ rather than letting it drag on.
Pope Francis slurred gay men while in a closed door conference with some bishops.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-used-offensive-slur-gay-men-discussion-bishops-gay-men-rcna154236
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ivanka, Tiffany, and Barron are missing from Eric’s accompanying family photo.
Here is a Scripps News video report on the apology issued by the Vatican about the Pope’s reported slur against gay men. For fun turn on the Closed Caption to see how many different ways “pope” is butchered by the captioning. While it appears that this mea culpa is about the language used by papa it would appear there is no retraction about a directive to exclude gay men from the priesthood.
Gotta’ love the spin that since his first language is Spanish maybe he did not realize how offensive his choice of words might be.
Holy Father. For complete absolution, repeat after me.
Hail Mary full of grace
Notre Dame’s in second place
Coming up on one year in Vegas. We’re still liking it, certainly more than we thought we would. But the big drawback to Vegas is medical care. No one who can avoid it has serious medical work done in Vegas. So when the wife gets her second bionic hip, we have to stay in a hotel in LA so she can get the work done at Cedars. I fly to LA tomorrow to see a doctor at UCLA.
There is also the fact that it’s now hitting the hundred degree zone. But it’s a dry and very well air conditioned heat. Drink water, wear a hat.
One thing you can do here that you cannot do in LA? I can drive a surface street (an odd LA-ism, since we don’t yet have either floating or subterranean streets) like Sahara or Desert Inn Road for miles without being even slowed, let alone stopped, by traffic.
We don’t move as often as we used to, so I’d guess we’ll do two, maybe three years more here. Probably end up back in California eventually, but still looking for a way to make Spain or Portugal work.
@CSK:
The choice of words reflects an awareness his inheritance is melting away like snow in July.
@dazedandconfused: Donny Jr and Eric were the stooges Trump sent to create the Russian backchannel. Who knows what other criminal (seemingly) activity he had them put their names on? If their father goes down, what chance do these two chumps have of weathering a criminal investigation?
@dazedandconfused: @MarkedMan:
Hey, Trump says he’s worth ten billion. What’s a mere half-billion in judgments to him? Chump change. Right? Right?
As for Prince Eric the Half-Wit and his coke-addled older brother…
@MarkedMan:
With the old man gone I have difficulty imagining them worth a criminal investigation. That estate looks to be a hot slimy mess the sorting out of which will likely take over a decade.
Pending availability, I want to try turkey thighs next week.
The breasts I made on the weekend are really good, by far better than any turkey I’ve ever had before (and even though I’m eating them cold, as the microwave went out for repairs*).
Also, I think the stock would benefit with more bones. I want to try doing it in the slow cooker. Online tips indicate slow cook on low for 12-18 hours. Who has time for that? So I’m thinking on high for 6 hours to begin with, and budgeting 4 more if needed.
For ice cream, I’m looking into mint this time. I think I should mix it with something, like chocolate, but I’ve done too many versions of chocolate ice cream already (plain, mocha, cinnamon). So I’l be thinking about it.
@OzarkHillbilly:
@Michael Reynolds:
My personal bet is Sunak will be across the Big Pond so fast after the election it’ll be loke Concorde’s back in operation.
OTOH, he doesn’t really need to move there to make money; he (or rather his family, via his wife) is phenomenally wealthy already.
First PM for to be richer than the Monarch (privte wealth of the Monarch that is, not the Crown Estates, which are to all intents state property, with revenues going to the Treasury, not the Household).
Though a few Lords probably came close, back in the 19th century. Derby, Salisbury, Melbourne perhaps.
But I think he’ll want to just avoid the sniggering.
I don’t think he wants to lose and depart, in such humiliating circumstances.
But I suspect he realises he’s got no chance of winning.
The Conservative campaign looks to me, at the moment, to be in “stop-loss” mode: putting up policies (compulsory military “national service for 18 year olds; tax threshold increase for pensioners; etc) aimed at shoring up their core vote, namely less educated property-owning retirees who are showing dangerous signs of drifting towards voting for Reform UK (= UKIP rebadged).
Tricky tactically, given other factors.
But if they can hold the core vote, then at least the Tories might be in recoverable position post-election, rather than facing an extinction-level event.
@dazedandconfused:
Yes, the one worth a criminal investigation is Ivanka. She seems to have inherited a few more functional neurons than the average Orange spawn.
@Michael Reynolds: Same here.
So… He’s banning 1/2 the priests?
full disclosure: I knew a man back in the early 70’s who had a fast track career wise, a home in the suburbs, a beautiful fiance, etc etc etc. Then one day he said, “I want to be a priest.” Nobody could figure out why. I was 12 or 13 at the time and just thought, “Well, that’s weird.” shrugged my shoulders and didn’t think much more about it.
10 or 15 years later my gaydar was fully developed and the light bulb lit up in my head. “Oh, I get it.” and hoped he was happy.
Never told my folks, he was their friend, but I suspect Ma had guessed it a long time before. Her favorite cousin was living in connubial bliss with another woman (in Dallas TX) and while the family would have nothing to do with her, Ma said, “Fck that shit, I love her like a sister.”
Six miles off China’s coast. Interesting.
And now for something completely different…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwMepJgbDAs
I just had a thought:
How would the dog react if you begged her for food while she’s eating?
Judging by my dogs, all three of them over the years, they probably wouldn’t even notice.
@Kathy: We tried that once, she was like…..are you fucking kidding me? Took the bone and ran away. 😉
@Kathy: Our dog is a rescue and had serious food guarding issues when we first got her at ~6 months old. If we even got near her, she’d stop eating and growl. I had to hand feed her for a little over a week, with occasional reminder “training days” every so often for the first few months we had her to correct that behavior.
She is much better about it now.
@dazedandconfused: Someone at work posted that yesterday and I am deceased
@dazedandconfused:
@Franklin:
Well of course the necromancer spell didn’t work. Any competent wizard/necromancer knows the spell uses gold dust, not glitter. Pagh!
@dazedandconfused: Here’s the link to the original video by the original creator.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0q-qPLyN16Q
That dude has some brilliant shorts. That one is still my favorite.