Wednesday’s Forum
Steven L. Taylor
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023
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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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A hate crime official full of hate. From the Washington Post–
But what was it that Chaudry had said that was so inflammatory. Readers don’t find out till nearly the end of the article.
The thing I find terrifying is Chaudry. She is deranged and full of hate and has no business being involved with any hate crimes commission.
I’ll say it again. The more people I meet, the more I like my cat.
Is anybody surprised?
Now for the truly important news of the day:
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I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!
Moms for Liberty outreach leader exposed as registered sex offender
Still not a drag queen.
@OzarkHillbilly:
I wondered why a male headed something called “Moms for Liberty.”
Before work does something even worse:
Marinade:
1/2 cup soy sauce
1.5-2 tbsp honey
grated ginger to taste
2 grated garlic cloves
1 tsp ground white pepper
Marinade 6 chicken thighs, skin on, for a few hours (I think past a few minutes it makes no difference, but I was busy with other things, and making the coconut rice, so..)
I cooked the thighs on a hot pan on the stove, skin side down first, then flipped them. How long? Judging by how they came out, a bit too long. I should get an instant read thermometer. I also cooked some sliced onion, and the heads of a few green onions (saving the green parts for garnish).
For the sauce I deglazed the pan with about 1/3 cup orange juice (what one orange yielded), then added the leftover marinade, orange zest, and one big heaping tbsp. peanut butter. Bring to barely a boil, reduce heat and simmer to reduce until it feels right (can’t be more specific than that). Pour sauce over thighs on a serving dish.
For the coconut rice I cooked the rice with a little oil, then added coconut milk instead of water. Typically it’s 2-2.5 cups of water or broth per cup of rice. Here I tried about 1.4 cups coconut milk, as that was the size of the little container. bring to a boil, reduce heat, and cook covered until the liquid evaporates.
On another pan, I fried some onions, garlic, ginger, soybean sprouts, and celery. Then I mixed that with the rice, and the raw, sliced green stems of the green onions.
The chicken thighs are good, with an orange-honey tang. The rice was amazingly good. Note, that little liquid cooks away really fast. But the rice was as done as it needed to be.
@CSK: Liberty in the kitchen! While barefoot! And pregnant!
eta, on the slightly more serious side, I suspect many of the women in these RW orgs suffer from some form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Still not a Democrat:
Iowa woman guilty of stuffing ballot box in husband’s Congress nomination race
And yes, some DEMs have engaged in such fraud, but it is rather striking how often GOPs are getting caught in it of late.
@OzarkHillbilly:
If it’s any consolation, given the realities of space travel, this malady will affect very few people.
Though maybe a shout out is due, again, to Clarke. In Rendezvous with Rama, he predicted long-term space travelers would be sterilized after banking their gametes, as a long time in space rendered the production of a healthy, viable embryo very unlikely.
He didn’t mean this, but the effect could be the same.
Space travel suffers from the first mile problem. getting stuff out of the atmosphere and to orbital speeds is very energy intensive, very risky, and very expensive.
Once in orbit, things get easier. But the expense in merely orbiting stuff, means we can’t orbit much of it. The Apollo Moon missions had tiny reserves should something go wrong. Take Apollo XIII. If the failure had taken place after the landing, odds are everyone would have died.
What we need is the science fiction device that dares not even be mentioned: a magical means of propulsion that allows us to reach orbit quickly and cheaply (see Star Wars, Star Trek, even The Expanse).
I call it the Marge Simpson Drive, after a line where Marge some years in the future comments: Things are much easier now that scientists invented magic.
Absent that, we may manage to set up manufacturing and resource extraction on the Moon, and thence possibly grow our scope in space by accessing even more resources elsewhere (asteroids, Mars, Mercury, comets, the moons of the gas giants, maybe the atmospheres of the gas giants).
Kathy- Have been fooling around with a number of rice recipes including some rice and beans. I used to be pretty rigid about the 2:1 water to rice ratio but have found that depending on what and how you cook other ratios work well and sometimes its a little drier or wetter but it mostly works out. For my plain white rices I still just use the rice cooker and follow its instructions. Have also been making a lot of winter squash, the ones where the skin are edible like the delicata. The old ladies like them because they taste good but I think mostly because they are pretty.
Steve
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, I’m certain they do suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.
@OzarkHillbilly: I am not sure how you “expose” someone who is on a public registry. And, while I am no fan of Moms for Liberty, this guy “volunteered” at their national summit. Nothing about this surprises me, but this is an awfully hyped headline for an awfully small story.
I was 15 and a sophmore in High School when President John Kennedy was killed. I remember first hearing about it on that Friday as choir practice was about to begin. Couldn’t have been much later than 12:30 central time when it happened in Dallas.
My friends and I had tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters in the Danville (IL) High School gym the next night. I thought the game would be called off. My dad told me to go and see.
The Globetrotters beat the Washington Generals that Saturday night after a moment of silence before tip off. I got to see Meadowlark Lemon.
A good time was had by all.
@Mister Bluster: I was a senior in high school in central Illinois that day. I was a big fan of JFK at that time. The intercom came on and the principal of the school announced it during English class. I was devastated. Most of the class was deeply shocked. One girl broke into tears. One guy cheered. It was incomprehensible to us. I don’t remember what I did that evening. The Texas Tower shootings came a few years later; then the assassinations of RFK and MLK followed. I have reassessed my admiration for JFK, and I am much less likely to be shocked by shootings now. I never spoke to the guy who cheered; his wife came up to me at a high school reunion, and I silently turned away from her.
So it goes.
@steve:
I started with 2.5 cups, because that was the indication in the package. Later I began to experiment. I don’t recall exactly why. Lately I mostly use 2 cups, or even a bit less.
@OzarkHillbilly:
@CSK:
Are we sure he wasn’t a drag queen?
Perhaps it’s just really bad drag. Maybe he dresses like a butch lesbian and nobody noticed.
At the very least it’s political drag.
@Slugger:..central Illinois…
I worked many towns all over Illinois when I was doing landline telephone work ’73 to 2009. Where were you?
A car exploded heading into the US from Canada in Niagara Falls, supposedly was being pulled over for secondary inspection when it happened. The 4 crossings in my area are now closed but no real idea what is going on
The original Manchurian Candidate supposed that the McCarthyites were correct that the US was being infiltrated by commie spies–and that those commie spies were in fact the McCarthyites.
That’s what sexual reactionaries are like. The people who fear-monger the most about groomers and degenerates coming for your kids–it’s that crowd where you find the actual perverts, the actual sex predators.
@Pete S:
Newest vid shows the car speeding down Main St and hitting a barrier, sending it flying and then catching fire. I’m curious as to how it was pulled over when the video clearly shows movement from an area beyond the inspection zone (you can see the fence). I’m familiar with that area and you can’t turn around easily. I’m betting the initial reports were wrong, especially since they seemed to be pointing toward terrorism (a rumor about an Iranian passport on the ground even!) and kept confusing Rainbow and Peace Bridge. However the claim of car bomb is BS; you can see the minor damage as it didnt’ even break the glass ceiling 10ft over head. The vids and witnesses indicate reckless driving / accident. Granted that doesn’t rule out maliciousness but FOX has already backed away from terrorist so……
@steve:
Another tip I picked up is, after the liquid is consumed, to take the rice off the heat and leave it covered for a few minutes (10-15) so it will finish cooking with the residual heat of the pan and any steam inside.
I once let it on the heat for five minutes or so for some reason (likely I was busy with something else), and the bottom layer burned and got stuck to the very non-stick Westinghouse granite pan. It came loose after soaking in the sink for a while.
Mencken opined that the word rubberneck is “almost a complete treatise on American psychology” and “one of the best words ever coined.”
I just learned this tidbit today. An unexpected amuse bouche before tomorrow’s gorge fest.
@KM:
I can see the area from my office window, outside of the car the damage seemed pretty light.
Considering how much the RW mtfkers smear people on the left with the pedophile smear every time they turn around even tho they have zero evidence to back up their accusations I am quite sure you missed my point entirely.
In a fit of bureaucratic overreach, one of our big customers issued a new foodstuff listing. All the hospitals under this agency are supposed to use this as a guideline when it comes to sizes of products, but more firmly when it describes the nutritional values of each, and specifically which conditions require to include or exclude certain foods.
Well, this time instead of setting wide size limits as guidelines, they set up narrow limits they want to make mandatory.
This is stupid on many levels. For one thing, no one looked at what size products actually exist. For another, manufacturers often raise prices by reducing sizes and keeping the old price, or by increasing sizes and jacking up the price. Narrow limits eliminate all such latitude.
and more important, individual hospitals know what they need and when. Some products were so severely reduced, they’ll need to be ordered more frequently.
It’s going to be a long, stressful Hell Week season.
@Kylopod:
Raymond, how about a game of solitaire.
I never watched the remake.
TMC was out of circulation for many years, not too dissimilar from 4 Alfred Hitchcock movies and 2 or 3 made by John Wayne or the Marx Brothers film Animal Crackers, at a non-revival house sometime in the mid to late 80’s.
@Mimai:
Rubber necking can take place for other reasons than a car accident.
In 1980 or 1981 I was driving on I-4 in the Orlando area and traffic came to a crawl for almost two miles. Why? A very attractive young woman had broken down and was they were changing their tire. Men were gawking at hire.
Time for a LGBT joke. How many butch lesbians are needed to change a tire? Just one. No Jack required.
@Bill Jempty:
What’s wrong with people? So many folks claim they have no idea how to meet people, but there it is, right there. Wait for them to need help changing a tire and then help.
I’m a moron, and I can figure this out.
Next up, start leaving nails in the road…
@Bill Jempty: I first saw the film when I was 12, during its 1989 rerelease after decades of being buried. I liked it, but as you might expect, the political themes went over my head at the time.
I saw the 2004 remake when it came out. I liked it also, and I found it interesting how they updated the themes–instead of the enemy being communists, it was corporations. But it followed in the original’s footsteps of being somewhat politically inscrutable. The ringleader of the conspiracy in this version, the equivalent of Angela Lansbury in the original, is a US Senator played by Meryl Streep, and I think she was supposed to be a cross between Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney. Pox on both houses, I guess.
@Bill Jempty:
Indeed! I haven’t witnessed a single car accident today.