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lsuprof
Favorite team: | LSU |
Location: | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Biography: | |
Interests: | sports, politics, movies |
Occupation: | LSU professor |
Number of Posts: | 501 |
Registered on: | 12/31/2008 |
Online Status: | Not Online |
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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...
re: Bud light getting it from the left now
Posted by lsuprof on 5/6/23 at 9:12 pm
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: Anyone else unable to access the radio broadcast?
Posted by lsuprof on 2/26/23 at 4:09 pm
Me too--no luck.
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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...
re: Should conservatives/GOP be pushing harder for Latino votes?
Posted by lsuprof on 2/20/21 at 4:12 pm
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...
re: Walter Williams (RIP): Blacks of yesteryear and today--
Posted by lsuprof on 12/2/20 at 1:11 pm
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...
re: Has Anyone Been Keeping Up With Montana Senate Race? Is That Still On Table For D Pickup?
Posted by lsuprof on 11/2/20 at 12:31 pm
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 ...
re: Justice Roberts sides with liberals.....again
Posted by lsuprof on 6/29/20 at 10:03 am
He is a major disappointment....
re: Inside WH Sources: Trump admits he is losing, Kushner will have bigger role
Posted by lsuprof on 6/27/20 at 10:58 pm
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 ...
re: LSU having to deal with a “free speech” versus “hate speech” issue
Posted by lsuprof on 6/7/20 at 9:48 pm
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...
re: Stephen King ignites online fury over controversial Oscars tweets
Posted by lsuprof on 1/14/20 at 11:01 pm
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. ...
re: Can you LSU baws educate me on why everyone hates F King Alexander?
Posted by lsuprof on 12/16/19 at 10:13 pm
[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...
re: What’s your greatest song of all time?
Posted by lsuprof on 12/15/19 at 5:33 pm
"Hey Jude"--greatest song of all time.
Close second: "Yesterday"...
re: Rumor mill King Alexander to Oregon State
Posted by lsuprof on 12/12/19 at 10:36 pm
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....
re: One Term Georgia Governor to stab Trump in the back...
Posted by lsuprof on 12/2/19 at 8:23 am
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....
re: Pretty disheartening poll: wide majority of even most republicans support wealth taxes
Posted by lsuprof on 11/29/19 at 10:51 pm
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....
re: This is an actual slide from a Science Teacher's convention
Posted by lsuprof on 11/17/19 at 5:18 pm
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...
re: Pelosi: 'The reelection of Trump would do irreparable damage to the United States'
Posted by lsuprof on 10/3/19 at 10:41 am
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. ...
re: Conservatives/Moderates in grad school
Posted by lsuprof on 9/18/19 at 5:25 pm
[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...
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