Xmas Eve Tabs
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, December 24, 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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Jeez… What a Scrooge you are Steven. Not a gift link among those.
BAH! HUMBUG!
Even History Facts thinks I should allow them to try to sell me stuff I would never buy!
Double BAH! HUMBUG!
I can’t read the WaPo story, but I live in a town that from 1990 to 2005, boasted the tallest Christmas tree in the United States. No, not NY.
@OzarkHillbilly: Honest question: do gift links work for a mass audience? I thought they were one-to-one sharing.
@Steven L. Taylor: I post them here all the time and no one has ever said they didn’t work
@Steven L. Taylor: Over at Balloon juice the front pagers regularly post up gift links. It gives articles a larger audience and I suppose results in more subscriptions.
@CSK: Let’s give it a whirl…
Here’s the gift link to the WaPo “Oldest, tallest, etc.” piece.
@Jen:..gift link…
Works for me.
A pop up informs me:
The pop up is crushed using the X in the upper right corner.
@Jen:
Thank you!
Most Christmas movies are dreck but this time of year I generally watch The Lion in Winter with Peter O’Toole, Katherine Hepburn and a young Anthony Hopkins, Christmas Vacation, always laugh when the cat gets fried, and for some reason Amadeus, I guess because a lot of it takes place in winter.
@Jen: No photos ☹️
Never mind poinsettias, the best small shrub at this time of the year is the Skimmia japonica.
Just had one as an early Christmas present.
Going to look lovely in the evergreens planter trough on my patio, next to some heathers, hebes, dwarf conifers, and euonymus. And winter pansies.
I like to have those evergreens outside the back to have something pretty for winter, while the rest of the garden is rather bedraggled and sodden till Spring.
@JohnSF: Pretty plant to be sure. Additionally, from what I understand, most poinsettias sold for the season are not perennials–at least according to the last article I read on the internet: the permanent source for all factual truth on every subject known to
manhumankind.@Mr. Prosser: The Lion in Winter is a great movie, even if it is a Xmas movie.