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i actually really like "the americans" on fx as well but i agree "true detectives" is the best of the three listed. we've enjoyed "longmire" about a sheriff in the west bordering an indian rez. just marathon watched wb's "the 100" on netflix on a snowy cacooning saturday. thought it was surprisingly compelling and have started the second season on now. have liked many of the others mentioned here as well. since hbo is included, i liked "silicon valley" and "the newsroom" as well.

. running a major university is incredibly expensive. competing for the worlds sharpest minds isn't cheap. the infrastructure is amazingly expensive. and let's not forget that uniquely american collegiate enterprise: big time college sports.. even with the big money sports generating income, athletic depts often net cost big money….which is ridiculous. and there are plenty of targets besides college sports for change. most undergraduate education can be done online. just keep the for profit shysters away. much less overall infrastructure is needed. housing, food, heating, security etc. if you want that coddled, rite of passage experience, you'll pay thru the nose for it. many we'll find it's not worth it. it's already happening and it's a good thing.

what, no sympathy for the lack of white man aid programs? oh, and the banks may have "fronted the cost" but the gov't guaranteed the loans while lending them that same monet y at a fraction of the end borrowers cost.. another can't lose gov't program benefitting the banks.

you shallow minded, knee jerk reactionary. my statement on for profit uni's doesn't require that the loans be owed to the uni. it requires that the uni's (and therefore students matriculating in them) not be eligible for govt student loans. yes, that's correct: student loans . yes, i have some experience with them after completing 13 years of post high school education. geez, i'd love to be getting the 7% i paid back on gsl's or the 12% for heal loans on my savings or checking accounts. but the banks always win and by a lot.

Ray may well resurrect the show in homage to his brother per an article on npr's website. sure hope so. i needed someone to tell me that trying to fry an egg under my subaru's hood was damn near impossible due to the positioning of the manifold! actually, this info helped me find an oil leak that was a fire threat which i also learned from them. turns out gas leaks rearely cause car fires since they evaporate so fast but oil leaks do cause them. so, at least in my case, some pearls along with the chuckles. ray also mentioned yesterday that tommy wasn't kidding in the last few shows when he stated he couldn't remember last weeks puzzler! turns out the puzzler was invented to advertise their repair shop. they weren't allowed by npr to directly advertize so the phone number and address for listeners to submit puzzler answers was the same as their shop's! the idea was likely cleared by dewey, cheatem and howe before being put into action.

it relates to priorities. a trillion dollars is the same amount if applied to health care, bank bailouts, propping up a badly injured economy at the hands of the same financial institutions benefitting from the intervention or student loans (yes, the same term applied to bailout funds).. and many universities aren't private institutions. in fact, i would suggest that all for profit univ be exempt from federal student loan programs while public universities be more heavily subsidized to obviate the need for many student loans to them from the start.

exactly. the fed bought enough bonds to pay off student loans almost twice over. and these directly benefitted financial institutions and big investors. just like the artificially low interest rates...that student don't have available for their loans.

it's only a trillion dollars or so. how much were the evil banks bailed out and continue to be? why shouldn't qualified students get gov't loans at the same interest rates banks do?

great entertainer. very smart guy. he will be missed. "happiness= reality- expectations".

it never interested me and been to a fair few races even when earnhart was still racing and tickets were very hard to get. the only time i've enjoyed nascar was sitting behind the wheel in the petty experience. now that's cool. be even cooler if they let you actually race each other. but watching somebody else do it ? nah, just doesn't appeal to me.

i don't think it's scripted. i've seen the fighting spill over into community events like golf outings. it's just redneck normalcy and has been going on since the moonshine running beginnings of the sport. the fights aren't a consequence of the falling popularity of nascar. the opposite is the truth. it gets boring.

d/c should speak only for himself (and whichever aliases he chooses to admit). this post flew just fine for me.

hmmmm….http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/10/31/key-study-on-obamacare-2015-premium-rates-is-out-and-you-wont-believe-whats-going-to-happen/

Well, no. "Careful eyes might note that it appears that incomes are flat-lining for the top 0.1 percent. That doesn't make any sense. Haven't we all heard that the richer are getting richer, and the even richer are getting even-richerer?Yes, we have, and yes, they are. This data considers salary and wage income. But the wealthiest Americans draw more of their income from investments. For the 1 percent, 0.1 percent, and 0.01 percent, capital gains account for 22, 33 and 42 percent (respectively) of their average income. Wages, as I've said, are for normal people. Investments are for the rich."

some real life numbers to ponder: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-income-puts-1-percent-142911318.html;_ylt=AwrBJSCQz1JURB8A4tyTmYlQ.

misinformation is part of the problem here. we need reasonable estimates in order to formulate cost/benefit analyses. the estimated incidence of vaccine associated paralytic polio was about 1 in 24 million, not 10,000. http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccines/polio. and that was before live virus vaccine administration was stopped. therefore, it's unlikely that any of the kids in the initial trial were paralyzed from the vaccine (salk vaccine was not live). and the last case of paralytic polio in the us was in 1979. it's easier to think collectively if the actual extremely small risk of vaccination is known by the general population. unfortunately, the fear mongers have done a better job at spreading their message than the public heath folks. it always amazes me when people choose to believe the quack of the month on tv or the internet without ever looking at their credentials over almost any other source.

a little retrospective vaccine history appropriate to the topic: http://www.npr.org/2014/10/28/359632703/jonas-salks-polio-vaccine-trials-would-be-hard-to-repeat-today

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/last-week-tonights-john-oliver-some-advice, john oliver, on comedic point once again.

i'm addressing the question posed to begin the thread. what are you doung?

which would make it even less representative of WNY. the board is a study in sampling bias.

the election results there show that this site is an aberration. kinda like the "moral majority" which was neither.

i wouldn't bow to you if i had multible lumbar vertebral compression fx's. roubini was swimming upstream from his esteemed peers. you're barely treading water.

the nfl and nba should run their own minor leagues just like mlb. big time "college" sports are largely a lie. restrict it to true student athletes.

as i said before, i know roubini and yellen's backrounds. they're pretty f+_)(*ing impressive. not to mention that roubini was one of the first to predict the 2008 collapse. so they do have authority on the issues being discussed. i have no idea if gg does. from his comments, i think not. and appeal to authority as a logical technique is by definition a device used to bolster or advance ones argument. why should this case be any different?

that argument might hold some water if yellen or roubini were or ever will be politicians or be seeking elected office.