Big Ol' Smitty

Okay, I suck at math but... Soros $25 million/3 yrs~$8.4 million/yr Scaife $620 million/~40 yrs~$15.5 million/yr

Yeah, I'm friggin' jealous of OU and Texas. How come they get to be good at BOTH sports? My college doesn't even have a football team, I think...

I liked this story from the NYT about marines in Fallujah.

I don't hate Banders.

Ah, the ol' "they do it, so it's okay if we do it" defense. I condemn Soros and co. too.

Oh my god...is that pic for real? I wonder if Carter had any idea his life was in such danger.

You mean like this guy?

Going to nationmaster.com, clicking on Canada and then health should give you access to a bunch of statistics about health care in Canada.

Don't forget about Ramel Bradley and Joe Crawford. Plus we have an awesome frontcourt--Randoph Morris, Chuck Hayes, Azubuike--plus some decent guys off the bench in Orbzut, Alleyne, Perry, and Sheray Thomas when he gets healthy.

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy? http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/27/scaife.profile/ http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/27/documents/ http://www.cjr.org/year/96/2/foster.asp http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1998/03/27newsb.html http://www.salonmag.com/news/1998/04/20news.html

Seperated at birth?

Man, UNC cannot hold our jockstraps. I am so pumped about the freshman class this year...Morris, Crawford, Rando (my personal favorite), Bradley--not to mention the transfer Sparks. If these guys stay another year or two and keep their heads on straight I think we are all but guaranteed a championship.

Yeah but most NBA fights consist of some girlish pushing and shoving. Gimme a good knock down drag out affair like in the Steelers-Browns game last weekend.

That's beautiful, man. It makes me feel even better about December 4th. Hahaha...I just read your sig. Luckily, I don't have a Kentucky accent. But I have friends that do and, man, do I pity them.

Source: yahoo news

Man, you guys are running a cyber-train on me. I give. Uncle.

Ah, sarcasm. The tool of the weak.

As a lifelong UK fan and student, I have only one thing to say to the #2 winningest team of all time...

I'm a student at UK. I live off Tates Creek Rd. Yeah, when I was talking about inequality in public schools I was thinking about Paul Laurence Dunbar HS vs. Bryan Station HS.

You're a master of the art of condescension. AKA a big meanie.

I think it's funny that some of you guys wanna ban these cats for "bogging down threads." When they post something, there are like 33 posts after that talking about slamming their heads in doors or setting them on fire. These stupid posts are more harmful to the discussion than their radical views. Also, this whole deal about calling everyone anti-Semites and saying they hate dark-skinned peoples is bullshit.

I don't think public schools in general are failing. I think that I got a good education in a public school, with AP and honors classes. There are also some very good public schools where I live in Lexington, KY. I think the problem isn't that public schooling as a whole has failed, but that schools are very unequal. Rather than throwing up our hands and giving up on public schools, I think efforts should be made to increase the quality of the public schools that are inadequate. I think that public education is cornerstone of American democracy and should not be abandoned so quickly.

I know a lot of the new funding has gone to implementing the (ineffectual) NCLB testing and the like. But perhaps you're right about the unions, I don't know. I agree about the hypocrisy of Clinton on this issue, but I'm not sure vouchers are the answer. It's essentially a lottery to see who gets a good education. It basically turns public schools into holding cells for losers of the voucher lottery. It's giving up on public education.

Yeah I'm sure there are bad ones but I think you were generalizing a bit much. My stepfather is a union carpenter and he feels like his union has been very effective in fighting for his interests. On the subject of the big teachers unions, I think they are probably a bad thing. They have all of this political influence and these massive budgets--yet they still can't secure reasonable salaries for teachers. Unions are probably also the friend of the ineffective teacher. If you're a talented effectual teacher then you will command good working conditions and pay without the union's help.