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  1. I will say that something is fishy about it. I don't think the ear wound is consistent with a ballistic projectile and the whole fist-raising thing is pretty bizarre. Of course, that's enough for MAGA to come up with all manner of wild conspiracy theories. I'll just stop with "it's fishy."
  2. Of course and Texas too to a slightly smaller extent. But what was somewhat startling to me is the degree of segregation in the early 1970s. Also that school desegregation wasn't eliminating the last vestige official oppression, but the vanguard. We all intellectually know this, but seeing it "live and in color" in a very recent timeframe is moving..
  3. Here's the complaint. https://heitnerlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/Baylor-Boston-lawsuit.pdf The key and driving circumstance here is that Boston U opposed Baylor's first attempt to register the interlocking BU, but they settled and Boston withdrew its opposition. Boston's current use appears to be in violation of that settlement agreement.
  4. I dunno, could be an interesting tussle. Both pretty clearly entitled to use BU, the question then becoming a) is the interlocking design sufficiently distinctive and b) is anyone actually confused as to origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person. I think the answer to b) is a fairly resounding: Probably also the answer to a), as well. But the "property theory" of trademarks is likely to come into play. Like most trademark cases, this will probably settle.
  5. I think it's pretty simple. A lot of or most of them are "white enough" to "pass" or so they think. So they start acting like mighty whitey at the earliest opportunity, including looking down on those darker than them and more recently arrived. I think this is evidence that, while Hispanics have been discriminated against, and mightily so, slavery and Jim Crow takes it to a whole other level (your skepticism), that mere discrimination does not. Speaking of mighty whitey, I watched this, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/harvest/, last night. The class of 1982 of Leland MS was one of the first integrated classes in Mississippi. I knew this was going on, in an abstract fashion, but that these people would have been in high school with me took it to a whole other level.
  6. They also need to start making fun of their hair.
  7. What's alternately hilarious and horrifying, or maybe simultaneously, is that someone who is deliberately trying to be stupid and funny still can't quite match the stupidity of the real thing.
  8. Well, of course, there are lots of things that "injure" them that they never encounter, because they don't exist. Unlawful immigrants voting and receiving social security; trans kids beating out their kids for D1 scholarships and other important shit; stolen elections. All that good shit.
  9. And people's feelings often have an inverse correlation to the actual crime level. Brown kids on ATVs and such.
  10. I think you can certainly argue that the HSR juice is not worth the squeeze, but that applies regardless of funding. Subsidies aren't really the issue when it comes to transportation infrastructure.
  11. Well, he did con numerous companies into licensing his name, and a bunch of banks to loan him a shit ton of money that he collects 6-7 figure annual "management fees" while paying them back.
  12. But he was compensated with a multiplicity of units of exchange within the realm of the empire. (this is something the superintendent of schools sent my Dad after he won the county school writing contest -- as the only entrant, but youthful verbosity aside, my Dad was a terrific writer).
  13. At least one, who is a UT Law alum. Don't think he's much of a football coach.
  14. They don't care. They're not 'muricans, therefore they are transpedosekshul globalis.
  15. Well, Friends for sure.
  16. Well, he's about 5-8 or so, which explains everything. That and "markwayne."
  17. https://www.aarp.org/social-security/faq/when-spouse-dies/
  18. Although it fairly traces to that TikTok, I was just echoing his sentiment and intended it in a more general way. The Tiktok could be fully accurate.
  19. Those 60s and 70s and before Case knives are works of art.
  20. Also, if your ideology is that good, and your belief in it that strong, exposure to other ideas will only reinforce it. Problem is . . . .
  21. Yes, I have been pondering this, as well, and have reached the same conclusion. True conservatism is maintenance of the status quo, or really more accurately, measured change and acknowledgement of unintended consequences. Other than history, or studying that principal in action in some other context, there really isn't much to be gained academically or educationally by "teaching conservatism" except actual political indoctrination. In a lot of ways, conservatism is antithetical to education. Actual conservatism is "that's a great idea, but . . . ." And that means you actually need exposure to great ideas, even if they're ultimately flawed in execution or some other way. I mean hell, most of the people in this forum are former conservatives or hewed to a fair amount of conservative notions and we all attended that commanis, hommasekshul librul UT.
  22. Do bridges operate at a profit/pay for themselves? Residential streets? What about streetlights, sewers all that good shit. Goddam socialists.
  23. Yep, the actual tax burden in California is lower for most people than in Texas. And then when you start figuring in things like cost of health insurance that are directly impacted by a state's political policies, the non-real-estate cost-of-living in Cali is even or cheaper than Texas.
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