Saturday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, August 28, 2021
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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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Florida schools can mandate masks, judge rules
Geeeeee, ya think?
You mean the Republican governor of Florida is bound by Florida state law? That can’t be right.
Thirsty? Sorry, no water for you. The selfishly unvaccinated demand you sacrifice for their right to choose a long, expensive, and gruesome death.
From More COVID-19 shots, studies offer hope for US schools
5 minute video telling of how he died.
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1431383569574744064
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E91FBDSVIAEe7WP?format=jpg&name=900×900
@OzarkHillbilly:
You know what has even fewer syllables?
Leaches.
@Kathy: Somebody should tell them.
@Kathy: Also ‘vaccine.’ I mean, unless I’ve been saying it wrong all these years.
@Kathy:
@Jon:
And fewer still: “dead”.
@OzarkHillbilly: WA! Kudos to McFayden!!! Amazing!
When Doug Mataconis died recently there was uncertainty about whether he had ever been married. This may have been settled and I missed it however I ran across this post in the archives today.
Miss you Doug.
RIP
That sound you hear is the exploding of Evangelical heads.
@OzarkHillbilly:..a secular, values-based philosophy that focuses on people’s relationships with each other instead of with God.
@OzarkHillbilly: My wife and I will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary next year, and it has always pleased us that the title of the very nice woman who performed our wedding is “Humanist Counselor.”
Right Wing Watch:
Thoughts and, err, um, howzit go again? Whatever.
This is pretty funny:
http://www.airmail.news/issues/2021-7-31/donald-trump-wedding-crasher
@OzarkHillbilly: Not as much as you might think (hope?). First of all whatever “religious” links Harvard had are obliterated by the fact that the founders were (IIRC) Congregationalists–the headquarters of scripture-rejecting, modernist, Christian in name only heretics–when I was a lad. If I were going to channel my inner bigot today, I would rave on about the “other Abrahamic religion” (that is not Islam) and it’s connections to the institution, but I’m trying to cut back, so I’ll just stop with where I left things before I mentioned the second point, and say that growing up, I never associated Harvard with being a “Christian” school in any way, shape, or form, nor have I ever met anyone who did. (Though I will admit my circle of acquaintances is
smallmicroscopic.)(Note to CSK: And this is how that “aren’t they all Christians?” question you asked a couple of days back works. And no “they” aren’t–not a single one of them. Only “we” are.)
@CSK: What kind of idiots are those two? I didn’t get to read the whole article–too much spam already–but the idea of being excited about possibly seeing FG on your wedding day seems outre to my delicate aesthetic sensibilities (and I was self-censoring my anti-Semitic tendencies about 5 minutes ago).
@Just nutha ignint cracker:
I understand the business about one denomination denying that another is Christian. I was just wondering what, precisely, someone who loudly and insistently identifies as a “Christian” (no denomination given) is.
@Just nutha ignint cracker:
It was a satiric piece about Trump relentlessly crashing a couple’s wedding rehearsal, pre-wedding dinner, wedding, wedding reception, and an event the day after the wedding.