Comments by motorhead (page 37)

If there was ever a case against affirmative action, it would Kamala Harris. Affirmative action inspires mediocrity, lower standards and sets unqualified people up for failure. Exactly what we are seeing from the performance by Harris.

I will miss Suzy Kolber. Damn she was hot when she was younger with the shorter hair.

I’m not much of a follower of politics. Do not know this Vivek chap. But I do feel a real sense of anti-woke backlash so bad f Biden stands for all that is woke, he’s probably in deep trouble

I always order no guacamole

^^ all you do is post endlessly about past atrocities but never suggest a path forward. If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem. And if the US is so bad, there are about 194 other countries to choose from. Or is it perhaps the US is still one of the better options?

If you haven’t already been there - the Grand Canyon is a must see. I did it on a 4 day trip to Vegas so you should be able to fit it in on a 10 day

The facts are this is not a hobby for cheapskates. Worrying about exchange rates seems akin to worrying the waitress brought you the wrong drink when the bar is burning down

Usually a waste of time Strippers have kids Kids like fireworks Ergo, the club will not have many dancers

^^ in the past 40 years or so I’ve had to use the laundromat a couple of times. Once when my washer broke down on a weekend and needed to do laundry before a new was delivered the next week. And last year when I moved I went once before my new W&D Was installed. Spending a view hours in a laundromat can really put things in perspective. You don’t know how lucky you are until you see a single mom struggle to carry in multiple loads - often with a baby in one hand and a string of kids from 4-14 with her. And you see every container imaginable. Laundry baskets, suitcases, plastic storage totes, trash bags.

GMD - the first time I ever heard that term used was not here on TUSCL describing how men feel about a certain dancer - but from one dancer talking about another dancer.

“Curious how you afford OTC, if you cannot afford apartment with washer/dryer” — Find an HE washer and dancer

Yeah. I really liked most of the 30 for 30 documentaries. I hate the University of Miami football program - but the 30 for 30 on the “U” was one of my favorites

I guess I still try to catch PTI most evenings at 5:30. Wilbon and Korneiser are tolerable. Haven’t watched SC in years. For some reason the powers that be removed the only decent shows. I always like the Sports Reporters with Mike Lupica on Sunday mornings but it’s long gone. And I liked the original Mike & Mike early morning radio show. I’ve only see a few minutes of Greenie’s new show but it was unwatchable I’m glad they got rid of Le Batard a couple of years ago. Le Batard created a show that was a safe place for wokes to accuse people of racism and bigotry without an ounce of pushback

“In the course of American history, racial minorities have been discriminated against by society” — On one hand, that’s a true statement. But it fails to explain how many first generation Asian - whose parents often may not even speak English - come to America and are wildly academically successful. So much so, they are discriminated against when it comes to college admissions. Could the disparity be explained by family and cultural values rather than discrimination and white privileged?

There’s also an Alma Michigan. Coincidentally, US 12 runs thru Michigan but no where near Alma. US 12 runs close to the Indiana border then thru Wisconsin and Minnesota

Let’s end this discussion now - if you aren’t willing to pay a black dancer $400 more for a dance than an Asian or White dancer then you can’t be for Affirmative Action in college admissions either

Loved him in “Little Miss Sunshine”. I always remember him from a made for TV movie from the ‘80’s “Escape from Sobibor” Arkin leads an escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp. Intense.

“are you suggesting that both drugs AND prostitution stay criminalized?” No - I think you missed the crux of my argument. I never suggested drug use should be a crime. You stated that drug use only harms the person using the drugs - no one else. I just pointed out that’s false. Drugs, alcohol, smoking all do harm to the greater good of society - but I never suggested they be made illegal

“Look at all the people incarcerated for simple possession - not selling, but *using* drugs - that aren't harming anyone but themselves” — That is a very narrow-minded, short-sighted view. The economic impact of illicit drug use is in the hundreds of billions of dollars - primarily from loss of productivity, over-burdening the health care system and even environmental impact. To say drugs only harm the user is an extremely false narrative

I saw it was the Onion so knew it was satire - but still reminded me of the scathing review I wrote years ago on a dive bar. They had the arcade golf game Golden Tee. (I’m probably dating myself). I wrote if the girls were so ugly (which they were) you needed arcade games to keep the customers from leaving then you might as well shut down.

I never post on Facebook for friends or the public. I’m just in some private sports groups. But I’ve put most of the groups on snooze. People just can’t be civil. You cannot have an intelligent discussion on baseball or basketball. If don’t agree with the original poster you are just labeled as a “hater” or “not a true fan”. Kind of getting sick of it

No Twitter or Instagram. I’ve only used Facebook. Sometimes it’s annoying because I click on a story or photo and without an account you can’t access it It seems many news stories these days require a paywall to read. I guess I got spoiled with free news over the years and always figured the time would come when paid subscriptions would finally be the norm. I just wasn’t ready for it yet. I have a friend on the east coast that still subscribes to real newspapers. He gets a couple of New York papers plus a Philadelphia paper and msybe some others. He spends over $1200 per year on Papers

As far back as the 70’s, my school, a Big 10 university, created a program, that still exists today, for underrepresented students. The mission statement claims it assists students from families with no college experience. Meaning it should also apply to white students whose parents never went to college. But in practice, for 40 years, the program is mostly all black students with a small handful of Hispanics. No whites. No Asians. There were kids in my freshman dorm who were a part of the program. They were stigmatized and profiled. How does that help matters? There were special math and English classes that no student outside of the program could take. So a white kid from a poor rural school could be just as in need of a remedial math class as the urban black kid but he was prohibited from taking it. Isn’t that blatant racism?

Certain STEM majors are very unrepresented by some minority groups. I still like to keep up on course offerings and changing curriculums in my college major so I enjoy looking at websites of some of the top grad schools. It’s entertaining to look at Stanford, Berkeley or Cal Tech. This is copied right off the Stanford department website - “We have committed to a holistic admission strategy, accounting for known biases, combining scientific merit with life experience/personality traits” Basically they are saying to some groups - “we know you don’t really qualify for admission but we will make up some BS criteria to get you in” If I was a minority (except Asians apparently) I’d be pissed off at the progressives who are basically telling me I’m not smart enough to qualify on my own merits so we need to give you some made up bonus points.

Woodrow Wilson is often considered “the Father of Modern Liberalism” yet he was also one of the most outwardly racist presidents in the modern (20th century) era. He was the last president born to a household that used the services of slaves. I just wanted to point out that many liberals today think all people on the right are racist and people on the left are not - but you cannot paint a picture with broad strokes