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Debating heading over to St. Paul to check out the demonstrations....

Minnesota House voting on marriage equality today. By this time next week Minnesota could be the 12th state! EDIT: link

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ May 9, 2013 -> 06:57 AM) Looks like Evan Gordon (Erics brother) will be transferring from ASU to play his final season closer to home. It looks like it will be Indiana, as they have an open scholarship. Good move for this year, and even better for the future. Eron Gordon is a 2016 recruit that will likely be a top 3 recruit in the nation. Playing up with the 17 year olds this year, he's just dominating putting up close to 25PPG in AAU. A lot like his brother Eric. I guess it makes sense since we could use another ballhandler and it would only be for a year. I hadn't seen that he was considering IU, though. I haven't followed his college career, but IIRC he wasn't too highly recruited out of high school. Has he done much at ASU?

QUOTE (G&T @ May 9, 2013 -> 09:00 AM) Motor skills and attention span are still impacted by weed so I'm doubtful anything will change. Field sobriety tests are divided attention tests. So you have to listen to complicated instructions then do what you've been told. Not easy on weed. Not any different than for other medications. As far as the "I smoked last week" defense, that doesn't work for another reason. The blood work shows various compounds for THC in the blood that rise and fall at different rates. An expert knows immediately how recently they smoked. Plus the likelihood of having probable cause to arrest based on the presence of weed from a week earlier is very low. I remember seeing a comparison in the Indiana Daily Student when I was there about how different things affect your reaction time while driving on average. IIRC, texting and alcohol both slowed reaction time by about 20%-25%, whereas weed slowed it by roughly 35%. I guess my question was, if we're saying the field sobriety tests aren't great indicators for alcohol, why are we saying they're great indicators for other substances? Or is it just that we lack something comparable to BAC for those other drugs, and therefore have to rely on field sobriety tests? Or perhaps I am overstating the uselessness of field sobriety tests? Never actually taken one, but my guess is that I'd be pretty terrible at them sober. I do remember hearing something in Crim Pro about the test where your eyes follow the pen, though. Apparently when you're drunk your eyes can't follow something in a continuous motion, they just skip across.

QUOTE (G&T @ May 8, 2013 -> 10:01 PM) Certian drugs, including weed, are per se prohibited while driving. The mere fact that its in your system is enough. Most prescription meds require impairment so proof of bad driving and the presence of the drug is required. I figured that were the case, just seems like a lot of times the "I smoked a week ago, I was in no way stoned when driving" would be...persuasive? I have wondered what they'll do for sobriety tests after weed's legalized. I assume it would be similar to regular field sobriety tests?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ May 8, 2013 -> 11:02 PM) Chicago's Chance the Rapper with a very solid mixtape, "Acid Rap". Hasn't he been featured on a fair amount of Kid Cudi stuff, or am I thinking of someone else?

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 8, 2013 -> 06:00 PM) I liked them talking about how creepy of a person Tom Crean is. What'd they say? Just that, or did they give examples? Just curious what was said. QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 8, 2013 -> 06:17 PM) Well, he does drink his own piss during games..... I remember a year or two ago, there were a bunch of questions on the forums asking what the hell was in that water bottle. Apparently it's some herbal uber energy drink or something. It looks disgusting.

So if BAC is the be-all end-all, what do prosecutors do for non-alcohol DUIs? I mean, I suppose some drugs, like cocaine, if it's in your system that means you're probably high or at least very very recently were. But for others, most notably (and commonly) marijuana, that's definitely not the case.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 8, 2013 -> 10:14 AM) Handzus was indeed awful on Sunday. He also didn't score, though he shot it, it was Sharp's goal. I did the same thing as Foley, more or less. Texted my friend I'll be happy when I never see Handzus in a Hawks uniform again, and two minutes later he deflects it off Sharpie and in.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ May 8, 2013 -> 12:50 AM) Aaaand that's all she wrote for the Canucks. Those who didn't catch NHL 36 Blackhawks tonight (hour), set your DVR for 5:00pm Sunday on NHL Network. Good stuff. Gracias.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 7, 2013 -> 11:58 AM) It's only Creaning if you do it for a better player. Yeah come on guys, do it right!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 3, 2013 -> 11:23 AM) LOL. "its all legit, they all have their degrees and their parents WANT to pay their own way" Hoosier...Hulk...SMAAAASH

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 2, 2013 -> 10:03 PM) We all know that but that door is still open so you just want to hope. I obviously want Derrick to come back but right now these guys on the court deserve so much respect while Rose deserves a complete loss of it. Wilbon made a good point here. Bulls should have just said from the beginning that he wasn't going to play, anything else was a bonus. Hell, at this point they could have said "He's not playing in the playoffs" (I think the strongest wording was he was doubtful, right?).

ATTN: Balta

I like what I've heard of the new Thermals record.

QUOTE (zenryan @ May 2, 2013 -> 09:20 PM) Not dead yet but Amanda Bynes is heading for a spot on this thread. seen her recent twitter pics? yikes Yeah that was ridiculous. Amands Bynes tweets a bunch of drugged out half-naked pictures

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 1, 2013 -> 12:22 PM) And I've responded to this argument a thousand times and said I agree generally. But that doesn't mean what I'm pointing out isn't a problem. I acknowledge it, you ignore it. You're right, it is a problem. Just focusing on different things, I guess.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 1, 2013 -> 11:57 AM) The people with the real control of the CPS are local, not the state. From CPS leadership to the unions. Funding isn't the majority of the problem for CPS. In some cases, sure. But the lack of funds or the condition of buildings etc. is not the primary cause for CPS failing. We didn't listen to the same podcast. Nowhere did they talk about the kids not having what they needed to get a good education. They talked about the concern of losing a school counselor or a guard or whatever. The school wasn't run down. They had books. They had computers. They had the tools to learn it's just the neighborhood/culture is awful. I wasn't born onto third base. I wasn't poor either. But wtf does that have to do with anything? I see a culture that doesn't value education and worries more about other, inconsequential crap. That's not THE cause of the ghettos/generational poor, but it's sure as hell a problem that you pretend doesn't exist. And really that's where the solution lies. Again, pumping money into the system isn't going to change anything. It hasn't for the last several decades. Edit: and that last paragraph isn't specific to blacks or minorities. There are plenty of poor whites who have the same s***ty mentality with regard to their future. And 95% of it starts with their home life and upbringing, not whether they were provided the newest and fanciest textbooks/tablets/teachers. Exactly. Which is at least partially the result of the policies SS was talking about in his first post.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 1, 2013 -> 11:20 AM) I don't think anyone would argue that this stuff didn't happen in the past. But it doesn't happen today. It doesn't happen in Chicago where a great deal of the political leadership is black. People in this City and most of the country are given every opportunity to succeed. No. There's a difference between "giving a place to a minority in a school/company" (ie, affirmative action) and minorities actually succeeding in those arenas. Our country does a lot with the former, but early education is still so terrible that the latter is disproportionately difficult. But like Shack said, it's easy for me as a privileged white male to sit here and write all this without living it.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Apr 30, 2013 -> 05:37 PM) I *think* we have a deal on the house I found that was not on the market...made an offer yesterday, and the seller called me today to discuss. So much nicer to just speak with a reasonable person over the phone and come to an agreement rather than to do this song and dance with the counters and counter-counters, and all that. Sending him a new offer tonight with what we agreed on over the phone...hoping to have an acceptance tomorrow... Then on to the next big hurdle...the appraisal... Good luck!

Congrats!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2013 -> 03:59 PM) How come I didnt get this reaction when I posted a pic of it way back? Cause the pic didn't say $30k-$40k on it?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 29, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) Why do guys assume that gays are automatically attracted to them? I mean you know every girl isnt already, but you assume some gay guy will be in to you? Yeah that's a weird one. I don't get it. Even if you do get hit on, I don't understand why some guys get all hot and bothered by it. To me it's just, "I'm flattered, but I don't swing that way." It's an easier let down than for an unattractive woman!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 29, 2013 -> 11:43 AM) going by the context (he moves from that line to talking about HS and college), I think he meant he didn't set out years ago. That's what I thought. As in, when he started his NBA career, his #1 goal was not "become America's first openly gay active professional athlete." It was probably "win NBA championships."

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 23, 2013 -> 03:55 PM) Only for criminals! Reading that article, I wonder why he was able to plead to a lesser charge of misdemeanor assault and battery for two attacks. Must not have been actual rape. I remember Crim Law my 1L year and learning about rape laws. We read a line of cases from the 1950s or so interpreting the word "forcible" in rape statutes (as in "forcible rape" or "forcible penetration" etc.). They were disgusting. One judge actually said something to the effect of, "Although we know the defendant was choking the alleged victim, we don't know how hard it was. It could have been light and playful. This is not enough to say she was 'forced.'" All the cases essentially said "If he didn't handcuff you to a wall and point a gun at your head first, it's not 'forcible.'"