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    *Carson McCullers
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    Buncha fucking weird fucks is what they've got.
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    I am capable of understanding and empathizing with those not me. The middle class has shrunk and the working class has it worse.
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    Well, the Republicans of the past are guilty of some policy mistakes that led pretty directly to today. One being courting fundagelicals and two being trickle-down economics and related theories that have suppressed wages and further enriched the rich.
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    Vote lock step? No we vote against fucking regards and shitheels. Which means pretty much all republicans these days, and the king of the dipshits himself, Trump. And the bolded is some pretty insane shit.
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    And, quite unfortunately, it wouldn't be the first time a politician or politicians enacted severe new laws to combat a non-existent crime wave.
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    Founded and sold out by the Thompson family, mostly Longhorns. https://thompsoncenter.utexas.edu/
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    Well, ours wasn't that bad. Those in other sports used that 6th period for that sport, even when they were football players. A star-stud MLB was a standout on both teams and a "coach on the field" and he didn't get much grief, I suppose because he didn't need a bunch of extra coaching in spring workouts. I remember a WR didn't come out for baseball until his senior year because of pressure to attend spring workouts and avoid injury. I remember specifically he was put in as a PR and got deked and tagged out by a SS who fake threw back to the pitcher.
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    And, of course, once you give the dictator that kind of unilateral power, where else does he take it. Look where Bukele is taking it. This is the fatal flaw with this type of thinking.
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    That's very true, yes. And some baseball/football players did indeed receive pushback from the HFC. I am, however, referring to the "social" hit that QB1 took. Not that he became a pariah or anything, but the understanding that he foreswore being "Lord God king boofoo" of our hs to play what was regarded as a distant second-tier sport.
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    To an extent he's right in that a whole lot of inhabitants of this state are Magats, so it shouldn't surprise us much that our athletes are Magat-y, athletes not being known for intelligence or sensitivity. But the objectionable thing is that they aren't expressing conservative ideas, they're parroting the stupidity of the current variant of the right-wing, as Huckleberry points out. It's the CR problem: "conservatives" get shouted down because they don't currently articulate any sort of reasoned conservative viewpoint.
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    GOLL and I went to the same hs, which shall remain unnamed but could be gleaned from prior postings. For whatever reason, and I'm sure this was not unique to our hs, you had to play football to be cool, at least until junior or senior year. Example: The, anointed QB1 quit football after his freshman year to focus on basketball. He succeeded to the point that he played some at Arkansas under Nolan Richardson, as a 6-1 white guy. But, his quitting football was just scandalous. My sense is that that phenomenon mitigated some between my time and his time at the school.
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    Yeah, I would not call this board a bunch of "ultra-liberals." This is essentially the same people that 15 years ago were pretty damn conservative. Nothing like the conservative party turning into a bunch of truth-impervious, fascistic cultists to turn that trend right the fuck around.
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    I had quite the opposite experience some years earlier, at least as concerned the baseballers in my grade and younger. The ones a year older had some asshole potential. But, in my day, football was still KING and almost a prerequisite to being any kind of asshole. Anyone who played anything else, only, was relatively humble.
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    Is all of this well-known? Somehow I missed it. I think James had a drinking problem and that follows genes pretty strongly.
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    Except when I don't like the art or the athlete, then it's easy as fuck.
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    Grocery stores have been one of the earliest and most massive collectors of consumer data on the planet. There's a whole company that starts with a C, can't recall the name, that sold the stores on those little discount cards and they do a ton of data mining for the stores. The C company was a patent client of my firm 20 some odd years ago and it wasn't the only one in the business. Made Google look like a piker, especially for the time.
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    I don't know. If this was indeed a dig at John Kerry, that makes it even weirder. I'm mean, John Kerry? WTF. Exactly. As I said, I think he was warned not to repeat the Kerry mistake (the warning being necessary because everyone seems to sense how out of it he is), and so he goes and weirds it up anyway.
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    Did you read the article? The headline was pure horseshit. Vance is still a douchewad, and what he did was weird and douchey, but not at all in the way the headline depicted. Someone probably told him not to try to order swiss cheese, because Kerry did, so he tried to make a thing about it in his weird, awkward way.
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    My personal observation of Texas Baseball players was that they were fairly serious students, particularly for athletes, and generally reasonably smart. And, unlike football players, among others, didn't seem to receive a lot of special treatment. This experience, however, did not include the "superstar" types or big draftees, who may or may not have been playing school at all. There seem to have been no shortage of those kind of idiots. But I think MLB is mostly populated with high school draftees who lack a lot education or perspective. And the high percentage of foreign "minority" players probably doesn't help temper their viewpoints any or broaden their horizons.
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    Probably true. And, I am somewhat in agreement with troph. For all my distaste for career politicians like Joe, they know how to get shit done. Kamala, don't care if she's a woman, is a relative neophyte from an executive and legislative standpoint. I suspect Joe Biden got as much done with an oppositional/defiant GOP and without decisive majorities in either house as is humanly possible. We're going to miss that.
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    Yeah, good luck with that, Elon, you rube. A big part of the problem is that the litigation of a major business ebbs and flows. You have to have specialists for IP, environmental, mass torts, so on and so forth and they can't keep those groups busy year-round. And, to retain good ones, they'll have to pay in the mid six figures.
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    Dude. Lmao.
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    Well, it appears that JD was taking a whack at John Kerry, who according to the article tried to order swiss on a steak . . . 20 years ago. So weird.

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