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  1. My daughters and I talk about this. I’ve always been puzzled about where the idea of on-campus indoctrination comes from. I don’t think humanities and liberal arts faculty are any more or less tolerant of dissent than they ever have been, and so also frankly don’t think curricula and professors usually have the ability to dictate a point of view to their students. My daughters have said they think it’s just a matter of exposure to other students and new places, because the only kids they have seen do 180 ideological turns in college are kids from sheltered, homogeneous environments who see the world outside for the first time and realize that things are not as they were told. There’s a prog-left version of this too, but the Republican small city kids learn that cities aren’t dangerous, liberals don’t hate the free market, people don’t get third term abortions other than in medical emergencies and white Christian political conservatives are the discriminators more often than they are the object of discrimination. And it is not extremely important also that college is where the gay kids from those environments finally have the space to accept themselves for the first time. And then they come home from college, and the parents blame woke indoctrination, when it was really just seeing the world outside the cloister for the first time.
  2. Amarillo doesn’t get enough run for having great weather. It’s windy, but it has four seasons and since Covid had the happy impact of reducing my ability to smell shit while leaving my ability to smell food untouched, I feel like it would be a good option (if my wife didn’t hate Amarillo).
  3. Fond is the right word. I’ve got a soft spot for both of those guys (for different reasons) and it makes me less of objective.
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  5. Good point, and the last part is true for Pelosi as well. She’s the greatest legislative tactician of all time or at least the closest thing the House has ever had to LBJ.. She is not and does not want to be the face of anything. He was right though.
  6. Of course it does- that’s the Iron Law of Single Party Districts: in a district or state where one party has a dominant advantage, the nominating process of the dominant party will produce the least acceptable candidate the majority is willing to vote for. In competitive districts and states, parties will typically nominate two relatively strong, well qualified candidates.
  7. So you want Texas, which votes about 56% Republican, and is currently gerrymandered to predetermine a 66% Republican outcome, to increase the number of safe seats to 79%? That does not square with your repeated insistence that you think it should reflect how the state votes. The fact is that if we just had 38 competitive districts drawn without regard to partisan lean and reflected actual communities it would play out closer to the natural break than anything else. Designing districts around actual places on the map where people have important things in common is called “representation,” not “gerrymandering.” So you support efforts to hugely overepresent Republicans? I don’t have a side, I have a community. You do have a side, and your side is doing this in Texas. I don’t care about states where I don’t live. I care about Representative from Austin who have a reason to pick up the phone when someone from Austin calls.
  8. No. That was the Clinton faction.
  9. Welp, it looks like I was wrong and Doggett and Casar are likely to wind up facing each other in a primary for D10. That’s a shame. Doggett is still extremely effective, but he really should pass the torch to Sarah Eckhart, and Casar should sack up and break the gerrymander in the new District 35.
  10. I mostly agree. I’m not worried about Mamdani, I just think he’ll wind up making no meaningful progress on the housing shortage in NY. That said, I’m glad I don’t live in a city with a strong mayor system. The bigger the city is, the less sense it makes. I also don’t like the “strong president” system.
  11. Yeah. I like to think I’d stay and fight and I’m probably too old to do anything else. But the fact is that the Texas that I grew up with - the fearless Texas that was defined by generosity and optimism and largeness of spirit and attracted my ancestors here in the 1830s and kept us rooted there for the next 6 generations even as everything else changed, the essential Texas- is gone, or at least it’s dormant. And if that is gone, what’s left to fight for? Dirt? Either way my daughters are likely gone for good. They will take Texas wherever they go. Not sure what I’ll do. It’s either stay here or head out for New Mexico, I guess.
  12. I’m with Derka on this. Dude knows ball, and he’s been on this one from the beginning. I am hoping Quinn Ewers makes it as a career 3rd option/scout team QB for a few years and I think he might, but he’s certainly not a starter and I don’t think he’s a backup either, because based on his entire body of work I don’t see any reason to believe he can start multiple games in a season for an NFL team.
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  14. Oh wow. Wow.
  15. This being Milt
  16. Wordle 1,514 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I should have had this in this three but mistyped on my third attempt and learned a new word
  17. This is one of my favorite techniques recently- a great example of something that seems labor intensive but is actually super easy and has a very large margin of error. The braid adds texture while helping to retain moisture and prevent overcooking while allowing for a very good crust to form. I used flat irons for this, but flank and Sierra cuts work really well too. You just need a relatively thin steak that is the right shape. Step one: Get a couple of flatirons Gather your audience, and cut the steaks into three long strips: using toothpicks to secure the ends, braid the steak strips, and dry them for a couple hours in the refrigerator if you have time. Reward helpers dry rub 10-12 mins on each side, direct contact. I did cast iron on the gas grill here, you can also just bury it, unwrapped, in hot coals for 15 mins or so. Remove from heat, and then it is extremely important to let it rest for 10 mins so it doesn’t dry out when you cut it. THEN after the rest, Chop it up to your desired consistency serve- that’s watermelon mint salad with feta lemon juice and salt on the side .
  18. His mother is Mira Nair- a world famous, Academy award winning movie director. His father is Mahmoud Mamdani, a Columbia professor and one of the most important public intellectuals in the world. AND, there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not as though he’s risen from obscurity.
  19. ??? Gosh that breaks my heart
  20. But he is so deeply unserious. I’m aware that people are excited about this guy, and I think that may be because he makes Republicans so angry, I don’t know. But I’ve been paying attention to the whole campaign and this guy has given me zero reason to believe he’s going to accomplish anything other the win an election. Putting him in the same sentence as AOC and Bernie Sanders (as someone did above)illustrates just how ridiculous this is. He has offered no reason to think he’s in their class. He’s less substantial than Greg Cesar, for example.
  21. Cuomo is a serious, heavyweight nepobaby. Seriously flawed and problematic, but he’s got a track record of bureaucratic management. Why are you guys so protective of Mamdani? It’s super weird.
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