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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. Just a side note regarding a nuance that was a personal experience. I'm the last of the boomers, and I went to a big public high school where 20 or so kids were applying to the Ivy's and the service academies. It was the absolute peak period of college admissions affirmative action. (A guy at one of the service Academy's told me that the only thing they wanted more than me (Hispanic male) was a black woman. In any case, I got into every school I applied to. (Harvard was my safety.) I had a really great Jewish friend who was slightly above me in grades but not really great on the extracurriculars. I had a couple of other relatively comparable white friends who either didn't get in or didn't get the ai package they were looking for. None of them has every shown any envy or expressed any sentiment that I didn't get in on my own merits. None of them have shown any evidence of any racial preference bitterness. But I think two things can be true about them and about other generations - they can both 1) not have a racist bone in their bone and 2) have at least one experience in their lives where they felt that they got the short end of the stick based on race. The former might guide their social choices. The later their political choices.
  2. They can be obsessed with their own victimhood and still not be racists. If there is any conclusion that might ring true it is that.
  3. Understood. Not sure why one can't understand all of that teach all of that, and still make sure that one isn't discriminating on an individual basis or drafting policies that appear to do so.
  4. Don't discriminate. Don't codify preferences. (Realizing that this will mean you are ignoring long term and short term disparities.)
  5. So you like it way mo than uber?
  6. More fun if he just exposes himself to the cheerleader.
  7. Can you do that gift in cake form?
  8. Nabokov, Humbert, and Dolores all got pieces of Trump in their stools.
  9. Holman Wiggins! You stop namin' nuts!
  10. Rob Reiner and Albert Brooks (Einstein) Beverly Hills High School photos.
  11. I could do that driving a dump truck.
  12. There are some monster good teams out there are we certainly aren't it. I'm figuring we are still one or two coaches away. Just because it feels that way.
  13. The folks in my family who vote Trump realize he's the worst man alive. They just fear some more than Trump. In a Trump world, you don't have to be faster than Trump. You just have to be faster than transexuals, homosexuals, non-Christians and dark-skinned people.
  14. Fuck this show and the laughably forced reference to the Gulf of America. The only reason to watch it is to study the death throes of the American Mind.
  15. Bump goddammit. I tried to find a funny gif of JT but there isn't one.
  16. As a perennially hopeful Stanford fan, I resent that.
  17. I just realized JT isn't married. Does he bring the ruckus to the ladies?
  18. I personally think that if debates matter (and they don't), then Talarico v. Empty Suit Big John would be the one that would be the most favorable to Dems. I'd prefer Crockett bide her time and run against Cruz but we won't have a democracy by then.
  19. Stadium freak accidents. What are you gonna do?
  20. How it started: How it's going:
  21. Absolutely the clearest and most precise political statement of this century. (Okay, she got the fraction wrong, but still) “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
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