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A different angle at white privilege from Zuckerberg that will rile up many... "Every generation expands its definition of equality. Now it's time for our generation to define a new social contract," Zuckerberg said during his speech. "We should have a society that measures progress not by economic metrics like GDP but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas." Zuckerberg said that, because he knew he had a safety net if projects like Facebook had failed, he was confident enough to continue on without fear of failing. Others, he said, such as children who need to support households instead of poking away on computers learning how to code, don't have the foundation Zuckerberg had. Universal basic income would provide that sort of cushion, Zuckerberg argued. Altman's view is similar. A year ago, Altman said he thinks "everyone should have enough money to meet their basic needs—no matter what, especially if there are enough resources to make it possible. We don't yet know how it should look or how to pay for it, but basic income seems a promising way to do this." Altman believes basic income will be possible as technological advancements "generate an abundance of resources" that help decrease the cost of living. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerb...-202800717.html Have to admit this one was funny... BobBob8 hours ago Maybe this little schmuck should give some of his money instead of preaching that the govt should be giving some of my tax dollars. Typical lib, complains about Trump building a wall then gets into a big legal fight with his neighbors about building a wall in SF and Hawaii (the locals in Hawaii beat him down with public pressure) lmfao at this whiny lib.

Dwight Smith, Jr. Homer. Two run blast, goodbye Lopez. 8 runs, last two shouldn't have scored due to blown call by ump. Guess Grudzielanek will leave him out there to finish inning. 4.08 era after starting at 2.94.

Two more runs, double that eluded Bourgy... Era up to 3.78. Delmonico messes up the tag or missed him....replays shows he's out but no replay. Lopez was't paying attention to runner. Almost exactly mirroring Fulmer with this game after a long stretch of good pitching. 4 k's, 3 walks, 7 hits...almost 70 pitches. Still not out of fourth.

This game delayed as well....looks like they won't start until 9 pm or so.

Another walk and then a balk...not one of his best starts. Grounder past Delmonico....off his glove, 1st and 3rd, No outs. More trouble.

Guess this becomes the default game thread. Davidson and Saladino in the line-up...Cabrera 2nd against LHP, yikes.

Lopez much easier third, limited pitches and got a nifty DP behind him. Moncada's first ab was a groundout. Walks on a 3-2 count here. 10 stolen bases this season. Back over at 903 ops. Caught stealing 3, Saltalamacchia. 18 walks, 43 k's....140 at bats.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/us/racist-ra...deos/index.html What to make of these viral racist rants recently? "It means that America is back where it was ... decades ago. That kind of thing went out of fashion with the Civil Rights movement; the Trump campaign brought it back into fashion," said the Rev. Joseph A. Darby, vice president of the Charleston, South Carolina, NAACP branch. President Donald Trump "tapped into seething anger" that was already boiling in those who couldn't accept an African-American President, Darby said. Trump "legitimized bigotry by the way he campaigned." "People who found their hope in him feel emboldened to say and do things that they wouldn't do before ... It leads to all kinds of foolishness that people have kept under wraps before because now they feel empowered because they think they have a President." Darby said he believes some of the rants also stem from "fear on the part of some misguided, for the lack of a better word, ignorant people who believe they are losing their country, with their country being a white country." He said: "They feel that they're going to lose the privilege of being white, and when you have fear, you do ugly things sometimes."

Another walk...Soto up in the pen. Danish and Minaya up to Chicago are causing the pen to be short handed. 42 high duress pitches already. Towering deep fly to Engel with the wind blowing out is caught at the warning track. Dwight Smith, Jr. Delmonico almost beheaded the pitcher with a wicked line drive but the fielder was shifted directly behind 2b and caught it. Liriano triple. Hayes RBI groundout, 31 rbi's. 4-1 Bisons.

Moncada 0/1. 899 ops. Lopez struggling here a bit in the 2nd. Walk and two hits, one run so far. Two K's in the inning as well. Two run scoring double to the opposite field down the line, pitch count climbing. 3.38. Another double, four runs in one inning, another oppo double. 4-0. Reminiscent of how Fulmer was cruising with a sub 3 ERA and then got blasted for 7 runs. Throwing 98 mph according to announcer.

A scathing resignation memo from the top US student aid official reveals a Trump proposal that may delegitimize the Department of Education... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scathing-res...-180800559.html Proposed plan to move loan administration from Education to Treasury Dept.

https://www.milb.com/milb/news/white-soxs-a...626/t-185364810

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics...2016/index.html Clinton e-mail controversy had even more of an impact than most imagined, fascinating methodology from a political operative standpoint.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 26, 2017 -> 02:35 PM) The time and energy and honesty it takes to do that type of self-reflection isn't easy, and most people aren't willing to do it. I'll give greg credit on that front. I may not agree with a damn thing he says or thinks, but at least he takes the time to consider why he feels a certain way. Yeah, while a fleshing out of how his father's success directly impacted him isn't really there yet, it's a good start, at least. As someone noted, it does read like the Horatio Alger, "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" stories that are essentially still the ideological foundation for many Republicans today.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ May 26, 2017 -> 11:57 AM) Good to take in stride. But I have no idea what you mean about Kevan Smith - what did I say? Just seems you were the last one left defending him as a prospect still. Not like a wholehearted endorsement, but maybe a bit too optimistic in retrospect. I guess it's natural when so many like Hawkins, Barnum and Trey were pushed into prospect status due to lack of credible depth in the system. Someone had to comprise those Top Ten lists over the past five years. Not that Smith made it more than once....maybe he was #9-15 at one point about 3 years ago?

No responses? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017...s-in-plutocracy Greg did in his own way, yet he usually has ripped Trump as an oblivious (to the needs of regular Joes) 1%er in recent weeks.

QUOTE (FT35 @ May 26, 2017 -> 11:15 AM) Bryant's there with Harper. I think those 2 are a tick above the others. Oops. Hard to think of a Trout as a veteran at 26 when he still hasn't reached his prime in late 20's.

Trump, Ryan, Mulvaney, All of Them: Partners in Plutocracy The Republicans have been called the party that hates the poor. With this budget and this health care bill, it’s no longer just the poor. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017...s-in-plutocracy I include this opinion piece simply to incite a riotous insurrection from the Right, lol. This should be good entertainment to read the rebuttals, at least. Dovetails nicely with our current discussion, Reddy vs. Rabbit and finally, Greg vs. Ditka vs. a Hurricane.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 26, 2017 -> 10:13 AM) So you have come out of the closet as a 1% white privileger. Now what. You want a participation trophy? How can I be a 1%er if my father and I both never made over $44,000 per year? My mom's house in the US (Iowa) might sell for $115,000 if we were really lucky, btw, so it's not real estate wealth. From saving and indexed investing/compound interest principles? No participation trophies, that's Greg's schtick.

QUOTE (FT35 @ May 26, 2017 -> 09:48 AM) Exactly! I mean the number of Hall of Famers playing now is pretty low. Although you have a tremendous group of young players who are definitely HOF-worthy if they keep their career on track. You have Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, Robinson Cano, Mike Trout, I think Buster Posey, Ichiro, Clayton Kershaw, Cody Asche. I think those guys are in for sure. Hanley Ramirez was there, but had too many injuries I think. Some of you might have him there. Then you have Bryant & Harper who are the best of the young studs with guys like Machado, Lindor, Correa, Corey Seager, Betts, Bogaerts, Altuve, Arenado(?) and Goldschmidt. Guys like that have a strong chance of getting into that HOF conversation with little to no improvement to their game--just by playing and staying healthy. There may be more...There's no set number--just the best of the best. Certainly a bright future for baseball with the young talent coming in. C'mon, no Puig or Cespedes? Abreu? L. Robert? That's some pretty strong anti-Cuban bias there. Avi or Leury Garcia? Bellinger and Judge are looking great so far too, but way too early. I notice you left out Kris Bryant. Intentional? Rizzo? Lots of good choices...F. Freeman and a certain Reds' 1B named Votto come to mind as well. Sano if he keeps raking, but his defense sucks. Benintendi. Gary Sanchez. So much young talent. Mauer, as discussed earlier, and Molina. Posey. Sale. Maybe Lester. Kimbrel. K-Rod probably.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 26, 2017 -> 09:12 AM) Bless you for having a sense of humor about this. Some much needed levity on this board. You get bonus points for including a quote of mine, lol. And anyone who posts in the movie thread...

By George Melloan May 25, 2017 7:09 p.m. ET A lobbyist friend who visited Capitol Hill recently came away horrified. “I now am ready to believe that the partisanship is so unhinged that it’s a threat to the Republic,” she writes in an email. This Washington hysteria comes at a time of full employment, booming stocks, relative peace and technological marvels like an electronic robot named Alexa who fetches and plays for you songs of your choice. What’s the fuss about? https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-faces-th...lass-1495753759 Trump Faces the Fury of a Scorned Ruling Class

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 26, 2017 -> 08:52 AM) After the 15-12 start, the Sox have gone 5-13. 13-9, then 7-16. Slightly worse looking.

QUOTE (raBBit @ May 26, 2017 -> 08:50 AM) Caulfield you really nailed the whole using caps to make your point emphatic. Oh and you generalized your individual, privileged upbringing and applied it to roughly 215 million people in a country where most of the people in poverty share the same skin tone as you. But hey, YOURE RIGHTEOUS so nothing else matters. For Boerboom, it’s a matter of assigning three emotions – cynical, sentimental and stoic — their proper focus. We should be cynical about our institutions, including political parties, and sentimental toward others, “finding ways to be open to people, even those who really piss you off.” We should look at ourselves stoically, “finding self-control and self-mastery. Don’t roll over, but don’t feel so entitled.” Billings Gazette today. You're going to get a lecture from someone for deliberately twisting statistics again. Whites make up nearly 2/3rd's of the population, but only 9% of those in poverty...thus, seriously underrepresented. African Americans, 1/8th of the population, but nearly 25% living in poverty, doubly over-represented. Hispanics do slightly better, 21% poverty rate for a bigger percentage of population mix. Others, including Native Americans and Asians, 14%. Kentucky (Appalachia), MS, WV, TN, AL, AR, IN, LA, Maine, Florida, Idaho and KS are only states where 10% or higher of whites are in poverty (I think all Trump states). However, the rate of African Americans in those states living in poverty is more than double whites for KY, AL, Arkansas 12/30 (2.5 times more likely to be poor if you're black), Indiana, Louisiana 12/31 (worse than AR somehow), Florida and Kansas you're more than twice as likely to be poor!!!!! Maine, Idaho don't register as having enough African Americans, lol. NM 10/39....4 times likelier to be poor if you're black OH. 10/34 GA. 9/31 Iowa, my home state, 9% of whites are poor, blacks aren't staristically significant, Hispanics 18% MI. 9/26 PA 9/25 SC. 9/27 NV. 8/30 RI and TX. 8/23 Kentucky, PA, MA, AZ, NC, OK, WI, ID, RI, MN, NY, CT, NJ, OR...Hispanics are more likely to be poor than blacks. Look at Nebraska, 7% of whites, 46% African Americans, 22% of Hispanics are poor. That's more than double comparing black and Hispanic. No US state has more whites than either black or Hispanics that are considered to be below the poverty rates as defined by the US government. None, zero, zilch, nada. Kentucky's 17% of whites in poverty....comprising 88% of the population, vs. 8.3% Black and 3.4% Hispanic...well, you got me. Guess their huge failure rates dealing with poverty for all citizens can be blamed on the policies of Democrats like Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and the current governor.Or the huge opiod crisis in the eastern and northern part of the state. Source=http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/

Well, I ran a 4:45+mile, could dunk anything I could palm, threw 77-81 mph...lettered in soccer (cue Hahn/Epstein jokes here, Dick Allen.) I wasn't great in any one sport, but I also played tennis, racquetball, volleyball (my favorite, but no high school team), pretty much year round doing something or other. Actually, I was pretty innocent and naive, didn't really drink until the end of high school and never smoked pot, National Honor Society, etc. No acting or drama club. Didn't really date until senior year, then stayed with first g/f three years...she played volleyball, basketball, ran track and softball. Kind of looked like a typical 5'9" Iowa Barbie. We met when I hit her with a spike in the face in the church gym...we were altar servers together. 6 feet and 155-165 pounds for most of high school, actually no body fat because of running and soccer...I tried to quit running in order to play football senior year (it was fun for a week of two a days) but they wouldn't allow me because my soccer coach was also cross country, and I was just too thin at that time.