Speaking with former congressional candidate and election reform advocate Nick Troiano on his podcast, “Hold These Truths,” the Texas Republican said fellow members of his party were merely trying to signal their disapproval of former President Donald Trump’s loss but knew there was no real mechanism to overturn it. Still, he warned that messaging could dangerously lead to voters losing faith in the electoral process. “It was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up,” Crenshaw said, deriding some of his peers as “political personalities” rather than “politicians.”
This was an impressive stat – The Texas A&M on-campus early-voting location had the second-highest voter turnout in the county during the 2018 and 2020 presidential elections.
A couple of weeks ago we had an icebreaker during my graduate seminar and the question was "What is your irrational fear?" My answer was "hammerhead sharks". And today in class I walked in and saw this: pic.twitter.com/xUWcZrgqSr
An under-rated sports moment in DFW was the Sidekicks winning the indoor soccer championship. That was the first time I experienced a local team winning it all, and Tatu and his shirt bit always cracked me up. His nickname means “armadillo” in Portuguese.
Every commercial break on The Ticket I hear that Greg Abbott broke his back 38-years ago. Enough already.
For some reason, I keep getting alumni emails from the University of Michigan to my email address I don’t give out but to the most trusted of friends.
Did Dr. Oz have a stroke? Surely he doesn’t think Pennsylvania has a coastline? Wait a minute, I bet he really does.
“In less than a week, Democratic candidates will lose their elections and concede. In less than a week, Republican candidates will lose their elections, ignore the will of the people and scream that their enemies are cheaters and liars. And we’ll take 1 more step toward the end.”
Cobra dies of child bite – In a bizarre incident, an eight-year-old boy bit a cobra snake to death after it got wrapped around his hand in remote Pandarpadh village in Jashpur district, about 350 km northeast of Raipur.
I’m so surprised that the new Bono book came out yesterday and I’m not in possession of it. I think I may get more out of it if I listened to the audio version. He’s such a good story teller. I like how each chapter is named after a U2 song.
I’m still trying to figure out what the new normal is.
One of the most interesting things about the pandemic, at least from an employment perspective, is that productivity didn’t suffer as a result of remote work. In many cases, employees became even more productive while working from home, either because they were happier or because they were making an extra effort to impress far-away bosses. Now comes word from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that productivity plunged during the first half of 2022, down by the sharpest rate since the 1940s.
In a field experiment, pedestrians gave more than twice as much money to a panhandler when he wore clothes that signaled a higher social class versus a lower social class. Findings from a follow-up study suggest that this was due to inferences about the man’s competence, trustworthiness, humanity, and similarity to the self. The study was published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
