Sunday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
·
Sunday, September 5, 2021
·
37 comments
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).
Follow Steven on
Twitter
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’ve no doubt this is within the realm of possibility. but the doctor hasn’t worked in an ER for two months, and the hospital he cited as having difficulties says this isn’t happening.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1434380417688289283
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-fxYqQWYAEE99N?format=jpg&name=medium
Some people are pretty selective which parts of Leviticus work for them.
(Reading down the thread a bit farther, the above pertains to leprosy, which actually is an airborne disease. But, by analogy …).
@CSK: Yes, I read the article.
@charon: Leviticus consists entirely of two sentences, “Queers are So Gross EWWWWWWW. They should go back where they came from.”
@OzarkHillbilly:
http://www.rollingstone.com printed the full statement by the hospital system. It really doesn’t help matters for McElyea to be making these kind of claims.
@Teve:
Also, shellfish is bad. And pork is really, really bad.
Women during that time of the month must go to a special area / encampment, etc. It is bizarrely specific, Leviticus.
During college I palled around with a bunch of folks from south St. Paul proper where there was a relatively small but substantive Jewish presence. Initially as a friend of their friend, but later as just friends.
I grew up in south Minneapolis and St. Paul was figuratively the dark side of the moon. 6 miles away and a million miles away.
As a group it was uniformly secular on the whole but with interesting ties and connections to practiced Judaism. They were all Reform if they went to temple at all or ever. When their parents made them go for special events mostly.
Many / most ignored Leviticus altogether or had an internal version of asterisk carve outs. Justified or not was not my business. It worked for them as individuals.
At the same time I hung out with a lot of Iranians / Persians whose parents fled Iran with the fall of the Shah. (This was early 80s.)
They, too, had a similar and practical understanding of Shia Islam proscribed behavior and came up with a structure that suited them. Alcohol use was the most commonly flouted rule. Again, not my business.
It was all very fascinating to me. I had the perception and forethought to keep my reactions to myself.
https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1434369063896113154
Regarding the Supreme Court Abortion bounty discussion yesterday:
Just more evidence that conservatives have decided America is too small for them and the liberals. This is unfortunate because it means the options for restoring our politics to a reasonable balance are mostly bad. Confrontation of some degree is inevitable. Team Red mostly views Team Blue as a threat to America itself. From their view, the Country is too small for the 2 of you.
The sad part is, we were placed on this road because an entertainment syndicate saw hyper division as a profit center and imperiled the future of America for nothing more than dollars.
My concern is that people that care about our future are busy watching the puppet show and not exposing and pressuring the puppet masters. Hannity, Carlson, O’Reilly, etc are marionettes… the hand pulling the strings are the real Centers of Gravity here.
We have an old saying in asymmetric warfare: The best way to control the opposition is to BE the opposition. Meaning, the play is not to tangle with the true believers and opportunists. You have to get upstream and get control of the puppet strings…. not to convince Republicans to be pot smoking. Atheist hippies–like Michael Reynolds– but keep them within the lanes of Loyal Opposition.
At this point Im not even sure the Murdoch family holds the puppet strings…but if they do… THEY (and other Major campaign funders) need to feel the pressure–both financially and socially. The longer this can is kicked down the road the more intense the inevitable confrontational will be.
I watched part of two college football games yesterday. Bizarre!! Everyone in the stadium rocking the home team colors. Every play for gain greeted with ecstatic jubilation; every loss evoked gnashing of teeth. It is just a football game; isn’t it? No one will care about the outcome in a month. Stay calm and read a little from a textbook.
Perhaps, I just don’t get it.
@Slugger:
I totally agree.
Except for college hockey which is weirdly super important to me. NHL hockey can fuck off, thank you very much. I even watch D3 game highlights regularly ffs It’s weird.
@Slugger:
Were they southern or midwestern colleges?
@de stijl:
Persian food is way better than Jewish food imo.
Tahdig (crispy rice) was a life changing discovery. Latkes can kiss my butt.
Trumpers let’s get this party Started
Brazillian Viper Venom May Fight Coronavirus
BRB going to Winn-Dixie for Orville Redenbacher Extra Movie Theater Butter (peels new Pirelli P4 tires)
@de stijl: i still remember the first place i had Manakish and Labneh.
Go Dawgs!
SIU defeats SEMO 47-21 in War for the Wheel
The game is now known as the “War for the Wheel” in reference to the ship’s wheel trophy which goes to the winner.
@Jim Brown 32:
I entirely agree. But how? Charles Koch should be living in fear of a lynch mob. But he isn’t.
@Slugger: I see politics as very much like sports, except that it actually matters who wins. If the average middle class white guy spent half the time he spends on sports on history and current events instead we’d live in a better world. Or not, if he watched FOX.
Many long years ago I had a blog. There were subsections, one of which was called, Incoherent Rage. Yesterday I had an experience that sent me back to a post I wrote in IR. I re-post it here because dammit, someone’s gotta say it.
Raise the dollar amounts and make it Rick’s, my nearest drive-thru, and it’s as true and timely today as it was 15 years ago.
@Michael Reynolds:
Hey it’s not that dude’s fault that the Hardee’s menu is really cluttered and it took him a long time to realize they weren’t offering a prix fixe at the moment.
@gVOR08:
That just means he’ll be surprised, and doesn’t have enough security.
The lynch mob should be white, male, and wearing expensive suits, otherwise he’ll get wind of it before long. Compare the 2000 Brooks Brothers Riot with the 2020 BLM protests.
Ideally the lynch mob would be include a Rolls Royce, so when his Rolls slows down to ask for some Grey Pupon the mob can swarm him.
They…don’t sound unafraid.
@Teve: One of the letters these Trumper congresspersons sent was to
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes.
“These guys could fuck up a baked potato.”
I haz a new earworm….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTNcTfi3lo
Stupid banjo’s are always getting me right in the earhole and never leaving. 😛
@Michael Reynolds:
I goddamn love Hardee’s.
Arby’s too. Not the curly fries though – they are almost never deep fried properly and are too mushy. Straight up roast beef on a bun with two packets of Arby’s sauce a half packet of Horsey sauce.
@Teve:
One that was directed at me as a young Airman still very wet-behind-the-ears:
“Mikey, you couldn’t pour piss out of your boot if the directions were stamped on the heel.”
@Teve:
I now have a crazed hankering for mutton and lamb.
@de stijl:
The sandwiches unavoidably suck due to the regs on meat temp preventing them from doing roast beef the way God had intended. However the one thing they got right is the baked potato. Sooo much better than fries.
@gVOR08: He stays below the Radar and his personal and business life is disconnected from his political activities. Ultimately the family business has to have dependencies. Whatever they are they can be put under pressure–Im sure Koch industries is not totally insulated from doing business with people that support responsible politics.
A good guy with a gun?
So just so you all know WHY I’m on a musical odyssey, it’s because I’m on a tractor 10-12 hours a day with nothing but muuuuuusic.
Check this one out. My hot take was “Well, this is kinda bauhaus, kinda hillbilly…..OH MY GOD, is that a KAZOO!!!” 😛
I give you….The Dad Horse Experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG6yYhcX6D8
And then….some more Josh Morningstar. 😛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG6yYhcX6D8
“Syracuse Shwag”, say it ain’t so, my friends!
@Jax: Not enough variety in the song to make an earworm for me. But the banjo player was pretty good.
@de stijl: If you ever saw what Arby’s roast beef looked like before it was roasted, you’d never eat it again. To this day, I amazed that what goes into the roasting pan comes out as roast beef. It’s a genuine miracle of food science–but I don’t mean that in a good way.