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As long as people think in terms of us and them, it will continue to be inequitable.

It's hard to lift yourself up with a knee on your neck. Literally and metaphorically.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Man-critically-injured-by-Austin-police-during-15316983.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mysa_afternoonheadlines&utm_content=news&stn=nf A couple things to notice: They were shooting at a person next to him and missed causing a critical injury. Comm Arts is a magnet school in my district. I can tell you he has to be a really smart kid. It's an all AP curriculum with really high standards. I taught next door and had their students on my golf team.

One of my favorites just turned in the final project an hour ago. Great kid. The past two months he worked his butt off auditioning and getting a portfolio in to be accept at a fashion design college in New York. I told him he was good for the year but wanted to finish and keep his A in the class.

You know Dick just when I was getting to like you ?

If you are looking for an easy one size fits all approach it isn't out there. Unfortunately we're trying to use the same law and punishment system on everyone. That doesn't work.

In three hours the school year will officially end and I can't take any more late assignments. We'll see who has really cut it to the last second. So far 12:25 was the last. One of my players who I also had for English.

I'm certain there are some that is to put three meals a day on the table and they feel like they aren't welcome in society. I also believe some have a choice and made a bad one. I find it impossible to paint them all with the same brush. But you seem to not have a problem at all combining them all in one group.

Imagine all the people . . .

I've always loved that quote.

That's great news!

Henry Horner? Let's play match the stadium to the housing.

Exactly. There may be a few things we'll want to keep, like DH for all.

I've told the story here before but it was life changing for me. Back during one of the Bulls championship season playoff games at the original stadium we arrived early for a Sunday afternoon game. We got an easy out at our usual lot facing the street and the high rises across the street. The weather was perfect and there were dozens of kids playing in the courtyard at the apartments. I believe that's Robert Taylor Homes. We had a six pack in the car and a couple beef sandwiches. We planned on obviously pregaming a bit. Just as I was about to pop up the first beer I see a couple beat cops slooooowly walking towards the car. Not wanting any trouble we hide the beer and wait, and wait, and wait. Damn those lazy ass cops walked so slow. Finally they get past us and we pop the first one. A couple minutes later we hear popping sounds and see kids running everywhere in that courtyard. I vividly remember a kid about sixteen scooping up a toddler in one smooth motion and keep running, ducking for cover. It looked chaotic and kids were diving around corners. Next I see those same two lazy ass cops running towards the gunshots with their guns pulled. #Respect. After about a dozen cops pulled up the parking lot attendant who we knew was an off duty CPD guy knocked on our window, "Why the hell didn't you morons duck? Did you think that windshield was going to safe your ass from a bullet? Didn't you hear me knocking on your car?" Nope, we were frozen. Later I was telling my wife about it and realized my kids would have no idea to run from those sounds. My kids would have no clue how to survive in that environment and as a parent I would not know how to help them. How good of a parent can anyone be living there? And later I scoured the Sun Times and Tribune. No news. Gunshots at a "project" isn't news. Just another day in the life.

It seems obvious to me but I should add the longer the season, the fewer teams should make the playoffs. The shorter the season, the more teams should make the playoffs.

There will be outliers, always. We could expand to a 200 game season and there will be flukes.

Depending on how many teams make the playoffs, fifty games is more than enough to seed the playoffs. The top seeds will be teams that avoid slumps for two months or so. The mid level seeds will be a couple good teams that had a bad stretch and a couple average teams that played above their abilities. If any teams do not make the playoffs, they were poor to average in the beginning. All the regular season does is create seeding for the playoffs. It doesn't take 100 games to accomplish that.

I've kind of been dreading the test. I'm glad it wasn't that bad. Before my upcoming appointment at MD Anderson Cancer Center I have to have the test. I'm driving four hours each way on Monday then hopefully returning Thursday for my appointment.

Not a scientifically valid survey but the past three weeks when I have gone to curbside pick up groceries I was the only car. A month ago I waited fifteen minutes for one of the 30 spots to become available.

It does. But being responsible does not guarantee food security in this country and a wealthy irresponsible person can grow up to be president. We want to believe that being a hard working responsible adult will assure a decent life. In reality it probably is for white people. Others, it's a great start, but there is still a ways to go. All in all a wealthy middle class loafing, irresponsible, coke blowing, white dude will out perform a tenth generation poor, responsible, hard working, non white dude. As SS pointed out and I will add to, the solution is building better adults rather than fixing messed up adults with a for profit justice and prison system. We have huge economic systems in place to make money on non violent offenders who are generally poor and uneducated.

I agree but allow me a couple observations after seeing both ends of the educational spectrum. I've taught at a very poor school and an affluent school. Poor as in colonias with home build walls, blankets for doors, and a communal water tap with hoses running through windows to provide water. I now teach kids leaving multimillion dollar homes. It's more than valuing education. Poor parents working two jobs to provide food and shelter just can't provide the same level of support as a full time mom. Most of the kids at the poorer school had no one at home to ensure of them doing much of anything. Rich parents hire tutors. College educated parents understand the system and how to get their child into the right colleges. The poor parents just don't have the background. Then there is the pressure on the kids to work at a young age. I taught a lot of migrant kids who basically could go to school from November to April. The rest of the year they were chasing paychecks with the rest of the family. It's what they did to survive. The families valued surviving over everything else. I know you didn't make this implication, but I just wanted to show that it isn't some character failing or shortcoming by the parents. But when so much of your time is spent providing food and shelter, other things, even very important things, just don't get the space they deserve.

OK it's millionaire labor versus billionaire management arguing over how to split up the barely surviving fan's money. I believe that calling a millionaire playing a game as "labor" gives them more of an underdog status than they deserve. The only labor I see in this is the labor the fans do to afford going to a game or buying the products that are advertised. I'll side with the fans and their pocketbook also as a general rule. I find it obscene that either side wants to cry poor.

Bottom line millionaires are fighting with billionaires over how to divide the fan's money. I'm not going to choose sides because I'm at the point I want both sides to lose.

Most businesses do close after a year of loses. Most businesses are like your local dry cleaners, plumber, or restaurant. But we aren't talking most businesses here. We are talking huge businesses, which you are correct, they can withstand a loss for a year. So too can players who are making millions to play. Could they play a season for only a million? And I don't see either side throwing a temper tantrum. They both know the point where they don't want to participate. This negotiations has been a part of every sport since Curt Flood ushered in free agency and the business side exploded.

The change I'm seeing are corporations making strong statements. That might seem minor, but those are the same folks who fund political campaigns. It also shows where the economics is lining up. The cynic in me believes that twenty years ago it would have hurt financially for a main stream company to come out against the police and racism. Now it seems that the economics has switched. Follow the money as they say. I'm praying we'll look back on Trump's term in office as when racism jumped the shark.