Frank Thames

Conflict and Maternal Health Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Conflict and Maternal Health

In this Element, @fthames.bsky.social + @ladyprofessor.bsky.social takes a large-N approach to exploring whether inequality variation in states at conflict leads to variation in women's health outcomes. Free to download now! 2/

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Finally one of the Dem Senate candidates is coming to Lubbock! I hear Crockett might be making plans, too.

Philadelphia, you are the best

YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL* Sesame Street - I Am Somebody

I show this in almost every single class I teach to demonstrate the simple values behind the dignity of all people and how at odds our culture's norms are to the idea. I have cried over how hard it is to believe myself when I repeat after Rev. Jackson, "even if I make a mistake, I am somebody." RIP.

Conflict and Maternal Health Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Conflict and Maternal Health

Next up @fthames.bsky.social and @ladyprofessor.bsky.social new Element is officially on the website and free to download for the next two weeks! 👇📚 Get it here!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Is It All Just Envy? The sides of the inequality debate continue to talk past one another, as Don Boudreaux's recent criticisms demonstrate.

I’ve written a new piece for @liberalcurrents.com in response to an open letter from the economist Donald Boudreaux. I address ways in which criticisms of egalitarianism err. It’s not enough to accuse them of envy or economic illiteracy. There are serious moral, social, and political concerns.

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.

Looks great

Three women on a raft move across a body of water in front of green, yellow, and brown mountains; white text announces the title of the book: THE WESTERNERS: MYTHMAKING AND BELONGING ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER; a narrow strip at left bears four images: Jim Beckwourth, Sacajawea, Ovando Hollister, and Polly Bemis.

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it.

So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

Today is National Thesaurus Day.

Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.

DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor

Concern about inequality is not mere envy Are those who object to inequality simply voicing their envy of the richl? If so, we must dismiss the principled arguments of Plato, Jesus, Hobbes, Mill and Marx

1) I have a new piece in the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog today. Here I'm responding to the many who have suggested that all objections to inequality come from envy of the rich and "successful."

Mayo and guac seems problematic to me....

Transitional Justice and Elite Polarization AbstractDoes the origin of polarization regarding transitional justice (TJ) in Poland lie with the elites or within society? We examine the causes of polar

Not a humble brag (ok, maybe a little), but if somebody wants the chapter I wrote from this very expensive Oxford Handbook, please send me an email. This is not the best figure, but I promise the others are worth it! Transitional Justice and Elite Polarization url: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

There is little coherent thought animating the Trump administration, just a president motivated by his psychological urges (and greed) and a bunch of other key actors (Vance, Rubio, Miller, etc.) pursuing their own pet agendas. 2/2

I don't think we should over index Trump's "Donroe Doctrine" comments & infer that he favors a great-power-spheres-of-influence world. He's not that consistent. A few months ago he claimed to have brokered an Armenia-Azerbaijan deal, cutting out Russia. 1/2

Sopranos bustout episode

Some of us like slimy okra with just butter, salt, and pepper.

The Incas had ritual human sacrifice. We have Pop-Tart self-immolation and cannibalism.

Technically, ‘should of’ is ‘should have,’ but we’re all about showing grace in the new year.

A Christmas query: Why is Notre Dame playing USC in 'Die Hard?' Nearly 30 years after its release, one question about 'Die Hard' remains unanswered. Why was Notre Dame playing USC in a Christmas Eve bowl game?

The USC-Notre Dame rivalry may be ending, but we'll always have that weird bowl game they played on Christmas Eve in Die Hard... bit.ly/3NhIf0j

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that pr...

Whereas this student is being empowered for making vague and unsubstantiated references to Biblical authority, I was once placed on TPUSA's Professor Watchlist for specifically citing Biblical authority in a paper outlining the Bible's concerns about concentrated wealth. You can't win.

Mom always fried up the cheese grits the next day. Usually had ham and fried eggs. One of my favorite meals she made.

Make sure you fry up some of the leftovers for breakfast!

Opinion | Stephen King on Rob Reiner’s ‘Stand by Me’ In Rob’s hands, “Stand by Me,” my most autobiographical novel, rang true.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“I had just let the whole thing wash over me. I marveled at what a good story the truth could make in the right hands,” the author Stephen King writes about seeing “Stand by Me,” Rob Reiner’s adaptation of King's novella “The Body.”