Sunday Tab-Clearing
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, March 17, 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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Read the tabs I could access (can’t afford paywalls this month), and, after crying for the country I’m living in and fearing for my (and all y’all’s) offspring, I’m either going to hide under the covers again, or channel Lloyd Bridges in Airplane.
And vote.
Ok, what terrible thing has Sylvester Stallone done that I haven’t heard of?
Despite the fact that
looking at who the committee has chosen indicates, at least to me, a feeling that the committee has lost its way and needs to rethink both the award and its namesake. As always, YMMV.
ETA: @Flat Earth Luddite: Feel your pain. Yet another day I’m not sad about not having any children.
I’m reminded of the documentary “Art of the Steal” (NOT the identically titled Kurt Russell movie) about the breaking of the Barnes Foundation trust and the futility of trying to control your “legacy” post mortem.
As the one quote goes, “We’ll just wait until everybody’s dead and then we’ll do what we want”…
@Gustopher:
Rumor has it he’s going to be a future Harvey Weinstein someday when he’s no longer too powerful in Hollywood to do anything about…
@Flat Earth Luddite: I have been trying to use gift links—and think I did for the above.
In regards to the New Yorker article I think it would be good if either the late night hosts or some You Tube poster would gather and play all the dangerous and nonsensical things trump says every week at his rallies. The man has really lost it.
@Steven L. Taylor: That explains why I was able to read the WAPO RBG Award item. Thanks!
No.
He’s going to continue to grow more outrageous for the next 8 months (and beyond, whether he wins or loses). I’m aware that he and his supporters are dangerous, and I plan to be ready. But I don’t need to know every cockamamie thing he says, it’s a waste of a good life.