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re: Crews slump

Posted by lsuprof on 5/7/23 at 3:36 pm
Crews is in a "slump," primarily in relative terms. In his last 12 games going back to April 18 agaubst UL, he has hit .326 (15 of 46). That is very respectable performance at the plate, but it pales in comparison to his +.500 batting average that he had up until that time. This means that he has lo...
This is why companies--particularly those that sell products for which there is an easy substitute--should resist with all of their might from engaging in controversy and/or taking positions on political issues, particularly those that are highly polarizing. Anyone who would put the [i]least[/i] bit...

re: Diversity training for work

Posted by lsuprof on 8/25/22 at 8:59 pm
[quote]Only instilling the idea that we ALL have implicit bias, and to keep that in mind when making business/HR decisions.[/quote] The suggestion that there is widespread implicit bias and that implicit bias is a major source of discrimination has been discredited in scientific research on the...
Answer: yes. Many people assume that Latinos are mostly liberals and that they will join together with blacks and liberal whites for form an electoral coalition favoring Democrats. In fact, there is a great deal of potential for Republicans in seeking the Latino vote, particularly in terms of the re...
Walter Williams was a major intellectual force, and he influenced my thinking considerably from the time I was an undergraduate student. He had a clear way of thinking about economics, politics, and race, and he stood as a contrarian to the way that many people in the United States--particularly tho...
This is one contested race that I think has turned in favor of the GOP candidate. Silver gives Daines a 67% chance of holding the seat, and most of the recent polls have Daines up in the race. Anything could happen, of course, but this is a contested Republican Senate seat that I am least concerned ...
He is a major disappointment....
Fellow Republicans--let's cut our losses while we can. Trump is heading toward a defeat of historic proportions, and it is likely that the Senate will go with him and that the House will remain in Democratic hands. If so, we are heading toward a disaster. If Trump's heart isn't in it--which appears ...
LSU is a public university governed fully by the First Amendment. As a government body, LSU cannot sanction a student, faculty member, or other employee for expression that is protected by the First Amendment. There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment, so while the expression referred...
Stephen King is a fine writer and is almost always wrong on things political, but even Stephen King can be right sometimes. The diversity fetish in the movie industry is nothing more than crazy talk. ...
[quote]Re: the ridiculous BBT comparison LSU will never be CalTech. We’ll never have the liberal arts programs like other state schools. Don’t have the funding or population necessary. Academically LSUs bread and butter is the school of engineering and some of the business/marketing stuff. A f...

re: Racism in South Carolina

Posted by lsuprof on 12/16/19 at 1:23 pm
Look, what this student said is offensive, and people are justified in condemning the comments. But Coastal Carolina is a public university governed by the First Amendment, and the student has a right to express herself without sanction, no matter how offensive what she said is to many in the CCU co...
"Hey Jude"--greatest song of all time. Close second: "Yesterday"...
Oh please, oh please, make this true. I can't tell you how much this man has run the academic side of LSU into the ground, and LSU sports has done well despite (and not because of) his efforts....
You do know that 92% of Trump voters in 2016 voted for Mitt Romney in 2012? Voting for and supporting Romney in 2012 is no indicator of disloyalty to Donald Trump....
There are quite a few Americans who do not know the difference between income and wealth, so I am skeptical that such a high proportion of Americans support a wealth tax. Ask Americans if there should be a wealth tax on the value of their homes or on the value of their retirement accounts....
This is about as anti-science a statement as I can imagine, and the person making this statement is not a real scientist. He or she may pretend to be a scientist and to know something about science, and he or she may be paid money to pretend to be a scientist, but to be a [i]real[/i] scientist one m...
Even if one agrees, the problem with this argument is that the election of most of the Democratic presidential candidates would also do irreparable damage to the United States. ...
[quote]So, I made the decision to go back to school for a PhD. I started about a month ago, and everything was very cool during the orientation period- I respect my cohort’s intellect and diversity, and I hope to learn a lot from the smart and thoughtful professors. So, CSS, I know, but has anyon...