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I deleted the first part of your response just to make this succinct. I'm not relying solely on anecdotal evidence. I just tacked that on, as you saw. As to this last point, I don't care about what adults do to scramble their brains--my point is solely about kids. IF adults want to box, play football, or fight lions in the colleseum, so be it. But kids should not be allowed to play football. And what's worse is that kids not only play, but they have worse equipment and less medical care available at games. It's a firestorm of idiocy. (And that ignores the possible coaches telling kids to shake off wooziness and parents who tell their kid to play through the headaches because "I did it when I was a kid.")

If you're a parent and ignore this, you are a bad parent. That's not 50% more likely to lead to CTE...that's not 100% more likely...that's 5000% more likely. Now sure, that's the pros, but if you put this together with the studies Gladwell's article cites (you can Google that article) that shows that in every case (19 for 19 or something like that) of non-pro footballers that some doctor autopsied, they found abnormal tau problems, that's compelling stuff. And certainly convincing for any sane parent. If you play football or box, your brain will be screwed. Even if you don't play pro or college. Again, ask yourself: Would you as a father hit your kid in the head 50+ times a day 5 days a week for 3-4 months a year? That's what you're doing by letting a kid play football, and that will have physical repercussions that no helmet can cure. Your brain is meant to rattle only a little in the skull. Football rattles it a lot, over and over. To say that it's not convincing is to ignore both these early studies and the so-obvious anecdotal evidence. If you're waiting for a study of 10000 football kids and these sub-concussive blows, it will take too long. And of course, the evidence on concussions is massive and convincing--and kids of course get the worst treatment properly diagnosing concussions of any age group so they are more likely to have an undiagnosed concussion than a pro. Just don't let your kid play football or box. There are a million other sports out there.

You are all obsessing on the one big hit. That misses the problem that the accumulation of small hits kills the brain. Football is terrible for later life brain function because the smaller hits kill you too. That's why kids should not be playing. Imagine hitting your kids head open handed 50 times a day in the fall. That's an offensive lineman age 12 getting 50 brain rattles...no matter what helmet, those hits rattle your brain.. That would be child abuse off the field, but parents are still sending their kids out to play, yet the evidence that accumulated hits leads to early onset Alzheimer's like brain decay is massively convincing.

You're welcome for the correction.

It's not just technique that causes brain damage. Repetitive head hits of any kind cause brain damage. The evidence is mounting that head hits and even knocks are terrible for your brain. How any parent lets their kid play football these days is beyond me. At this point, football parents and coaches are like 70s tobacco companies: "Football doesn't cause brain injuries" is like "There is no proof showing tobacco use causes cancer." Okie dokie. What adult players do to their brains is their own business. But if people actually get serious about caring about brain damage from repetitive head blows, it's the end of football.

I like some things at Tony Lukes but I would never ever go there for cheesesteaks. A chicken cutlet with broccoli rab, yes. Cheesesteaks, go to Pat's or Gino's. I actually really like Jim's on South Street for cheesesteaks a lot. And the best ones all use the steak-ums sort of cut. You don't want a chunk of steak in your cheesesteak FFS.

A balanced US budget carries a whole shipload of debt, just makes it harder to take on new debt. But you're not one to let the facts get in the way. As you were.

The Dec was read on July 2. The aging TJ and Adams screwed up the date and thus we are a bit off in our celebration. Reading Terminal is a national treasure.

Why does the area need a new super-expensive bridge? Buffalo is shrinking as is traffic over the bridge. The plaza expansion will solve the largest part of the bottleneck.

Lunacy.

In English, abacuses. Always.

Stern is. But I was referring to the Becks and Hannitys and Limbos, who are fun to laugh at.

He's good comedy. Same reason I miss Air America or whatever that Lib talk radio station was.

Get out of my thread.

I haven't clicked the link and may just do it to see how badly you're misquoting her. Let me try: Obama swallows dog whistle over debt

If Stern quit tomorrow, Sirius would be in deep crap. I'd like to see if they have the balls to void the contract and make it on their own.

In fairness, when the Supremes take a case, it's usually because they aer changing something about the underlying ruling. Otherwise they don't take it. From the article:

I get my best material from Howard Stern, who was breaking down this clip this morning. I have to admit being somewhat oblivious to most of Glenn Beck's stupidity. I know he's a moron with a blackboard and just assumed he was a Ruch clone but apparently he's much dumber. Sorry to go ...llybob on you all and post a vid but here goes. Commence evolutionary idiocy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFudttjOcB8

See, that's a joke.

I just read that everyone going to the Ralph will get LASIKed on the way in. Suh-weet. I've always wanted that surgery.

Wow, that's some evidence. Some guy who wants to make a buck says John had some conversations with him 32 years ago and suddenly Lennon is a Republican? And even if the conversations were true, being critical of Carter and also anti-commie doesn't make you a Republican.

Da Big Man is never, and should never be, taken seriously. He adds about as much to the board as crayonz, minus the Canadian references.

Please don't feed Trolly McTrollenstein.

We need a one term clean-up, because no one who tackles the problems will last more than one term. But even in 4 years, you could get some things right.

The end result will be: Put off the problem a few more years.