The Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis

The Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis Did you ever see someone do something stupid and say "Dude, what were you thinking?!"

So did we. So we started a research center to find out.

We came into Orlando on a grey day and we are leaving on a grey day. Everything in the middle was perfect.
11/29/2024

We came into Orlando on a grey day and we are leaving on a grey day. Everything in the middle was perfect.

02/09/2024

The big news today is Taylor Swift trips on the stairs and almost fell on the stage in Tokyo.
"Almost."
In other words, Taylor Swift did not fall on the stage in Tokyo.
Aaaaand, that is important news in today's America.

The view from our front door. You can't see it in this picture but fine snow is still coming down and is expected to kee...
01/19/2024

The view from our front door. You can't see it in this picture but fine snow is still coming down and is expected to keep coming until about 10PM.This is the kind of snowfall I grew up with in the 50s so no big deal. In fact I've missed it in the past few years. The only fly in the ointment is that I work from home so no snow days off for me.

12/05/2023

Margaret's Bucket List for 2023

× Paris
× Vienna
× Mt. Everest
× Kilimanjaro
× Fix toilet
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Margaret, home from the thrift shop: "I got something for you."Me: "Ooooooooookay".
04/20/2023

Margaret, home from the thrift shop: "I got something for you."
Me: "Ooooooooookay".

Margaret reading Birds of Australia.Me: "Is that an owl?"Margaret: "No, It's a Tawny Frogmouth."Me: Worst stripper name ...
10/06/2022

Margaret reading Birds of Australia.
Me: "Is that an owl?"
Margaret: "No, It's a Tawny Frogmouth."
Me: Worst stripper name ever."

01/24/2019

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” - Second paragraph of the United States De...

01/24/2019

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real m...

As a company, we don't work for political candidates, but we do track political trends as part of our larger database. G...
11/11/2016

As a company, we don't work for political candidates, but we do track political trends as part of our larger database. Given all the grief, rage, and blame-placing I'm seeing on my personal FB page, I thought I'd post this.

And in case you want to know my personal bias: I was raised properly - if you weren't Irish Catholic Democrat, you didn't get in my grandmother's house.

You’ve probably seen the figure that 90 million eligible voters stayed home from this Presidential election. I’m sure you though this was terrible. This is what it means.

Eligible voters are different from registered voters. According to the United States Elections Project, there were 231,556,622 Americans eligible to vote – citizens of voting age. Of that number, there were 200 million registered voters, which is 59 million more than in 2008, which would indicate that people were motivated to vote at the time they registered.

Of those two hundred million registered voters, 131,741,000 actually voted, meaning over 68 million people who had taken the time to register didn't vote on election day.

So who were these people who didn’t vote?

I haven't been able to find a breakdown of eligible voters by Dem/Rep/Independent/Third party (this stuff is not all in one place, you have to dig for it) but among registered voters – the only ones who can actually cast a ballot - there is another way of figuring out who failed to vote and the result is crystal-clear.

It was the Democrats.

If you compare the results of this election with the 2012 Presidential election, Romney got just shy of 61 million votes. In this election Trump pulled 59 million, down 1.9 million from Romney but still in the same ballpark as the usual Republican turnout.

In 2012 Obama got a bit less than 66 million votes, this election Clinton got just over 59 million. That's 6.8 million fewer votes than Obama.

The core message of Hillary's campaign was that you had to vote for her to stop Trump - you had no other real choice. Turned out that people did have another choice - Republicans turned out in their usual numbers. Democrats and Independents stayed home.

So, fellow Democrats, stop whining about how third party candidates lost Hillary the election. A confirmed 6.8 million of our own people didn’t come out to vote. Hillary Clinton simply didn’t motivate enough Democrats to vote for her.

Call it complacency, hubris, false confidence, poor political planning, whatever – you can parse the reasons later – but that ball is firmly in Hillary’s court. So stop blaming racism, misogyny, Russians, homophobia, Evangelicals, space aliens, and the third party candidates. The numbers are clear. Hillary Clinton lost because not enough Democrats came out to vote for her.

Great news for those of you who can't get enough of our going on and on and on about this stuff!Margaret and I will be l...
08/24/2016

Great news for those of you who can't get enough of our going on and on and on about this stuff!

Margaret and I will be live on the Joy Cardin Show on Wisconsin Public Radio tomorrow morning, Thursday, August 25th, from 9AM -10AM (Eastern), 8AM - 9AM (Central), and Way Too Early (Pacific) talking and answering caller's questions about the culture of thrill-seeking and its influence on modern-day society.

You can also catch it at http://www.wpr.org/listen-live.

And you can also read our comments on the same subject in The Science of the Thrill in this month's Atlantic online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/porsche-2016/the-science-of-the-thrill/1010/

We have a research collection of toys, picture postcards, posters, and other ephemera that show the evolution of what pr...
04/28/2016

We have a research collection of toys, picture postcards, posters, and other ephemera that show the evolution of what previous generations thought was mainstream-normal. Just picked up this guy who I call Smoking Joe - a Korean War-era toy solider smoking a cigarette. Not something that you are likely to find in Toys R Us today.

It looks like he's caught the eye of the Space Woman in the background - and why not? She may be a woman of the future but it's a 1950s future where smoking ci******es automatically makes you cool.

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