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QUOTE (farmteam @ May 1, 2013 -> 11:28 AM) 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. Level the start and not the finish. The biggest obstacle I see is using property values to determine school funding. It is one factor that perpetuates poverty. The poor have less to spend on education than the rich.

QUOTE (black jack @ May 20, 2013 -> 10:47 PM) Sell to Mark Cuban. Hello 300 million dollar payroll! Put JR in the Shark's Tank and see if Cuban buys a share. I'd buy tickets to watch a Mark Cuban owned, Ozzie Guillen managed team. That's entertainment.

I don't believe I've watched a player enjoying playing any sport as much as Mark looked like he enjoyed playing baseball.

Manny being Manny

Two sled dogs hitched together (could also be horses)

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 16, 2013 -> 03:09 PM) At the end of the day local governments make too much money off of DUIs to take steps that could end their highly profitable enforcement measures. So how would you make drunk driving penalties harsher? It seems like raising fines is the best for everyone. Jail time costs people jobs, stress on families, etc. Here part of the fines are made as donations to not for profits like the Boys and Girls Clubs and the local Animal Shelter.

Listening to Jude the Obscure, a free librivox.org recording. Nice. Even though they are not professional recordings they are clean and error free. I'm getting a head start on next semester's reading list.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 16, 2013 -> 09:38 AM) No...but your decision making might be impaired enough to decide you can order that 4th or 5th drink and still drive home. Agreed The reason that there are no simple solutions is the more you drink the more your judgement slips. People don't usually begin making better decisions the more they drink. And the fines as money maker issue is interesting. The counterpoint to that is we've also been pushing for longer and longer (harsher) jail time for all sorts of crimes, which costs more. So I see the larger fines more in line with harsher sentences than as a money maker.

Kids behavior gets out of hand in hurry. Something as silly as holes in jeans have become a major source of distraction here. It is so annoying trying to gain the attention of the class while the boys are discussing whether they could see some girls underwear or WHAT!!!! through the holes in her jeans. So why should the school have to deal with jeans with holes?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 12, 2013 -> 03:17 PM) Sorry, Tex. Have they raised enough money to have a funeral? How does something like that work? The body remains somewhere until you tell them if you can pay or not? Yes they did. There were a few fundraisers and a couple annonymous donors came through. I was on my way to the funeral when I heard a good friend had passed away, so I just went home and hid. And yes, the funeral home will hold the body. Sadly, our community has experience with this.

The passenger was sober. She could have driven.

So this is the driver's second DUI arrest. He had one in 2010 that he still has not gone to court for. In my small county there are over 4,500 pending DUI cases. They just can't get to them all.

The driver was charged with intoxicated manslaughter. The family does not have money for a funeral. We're having a fundraiser. I can't imagine the pain of not being able to bury your child. I get all choked up just thinking about it.

2:30 PM. The M-Fer was drunk at 2:30 PM. And she was home because there were rumours of pendign gang trouble at the school and her mom came to get her. She was set to graduate early. She finished high school in three years.

Killed one of my former students Friday. She was an incredible young lady. She was the news anchor for our middle school and my top student. I can picture her so clearly in my first classroom. This makes two kids I have a school connection with who have died in the past six months. f***. She was at her mailbox getting the mail for her family after school.

Who do you blame when a good decision turns out bad?

Rhet/Comp stayed as a requirement. The Math department offered to drop their basic computer skills class. We are already at 124 hours for a bachelor's degree.

So if the Sox moved to the suburbs there would be a mass exodus over to Wrigley? I don't see it. Cub fans will continue to be Cub fans, they ain't going anywhere.

I just learned my University, part of the University of Texas system, will be dropping the core requirement of a three hour sophomore literature class and adding a two hour diet, health, and nutrition class. Basically you will be able to earn a university degree without reading a drop of fiction. At first I assumed that this was a localized thing, but I've learned it is a growing trend in higher education. What I find interesting is Marx theorized that in a capitalistic society eventually education will be focused solely on producing workers to be exploited by the owners. That the disciplines that separate us from animals, the humanities will be devalued. Since a knowledgable working class is harder to exploit eventually we will have a dumbing down of the working class. This seems like a nice step along that path. Books are dangerous in the wrong hands. Blind submission is safer. I know a little hyperbole.

His advantage is also the player's advantage. People seem to think he has magical negotiating powers. That teams just fall under some spell and do whatever he wants them to do. Somehow fans see what he does but some of the most successful business people in America collapse at the sight of Boras and just do what he wants. The issue I see is those people that complain about Boras should appreciate and applaud Lebron James. He's the ultimate anti-Boras example.

Denzel Washington. He's also on my list of the three guys I would accept a date from if he asked.

I'll never ubderstand the Boras hatred. He makes millions for his clients, exactly what I would want in an agent.

There is a Collins thread started. Just in case . . .

Really, it took this long? http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/29/sport/collins-gay/?hpt=hp_t1 Cool that Kobe and Nash tweeted support. I guess he may need it, sad as that makes me typing it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2013 -> 09:42 AM) Sox fans are the Kings of Vote Early, Vote Often.