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  1. Damn, but sounds like you're kicking it's butt and not the other way around?!?
  2. The Bob Lanier Brown Indians used to warm up to this song. This would have to boost your shooting percentage by at least 10% after you're in this groove:
  3. What type do you have?
  4. Police Squad and Buffalo Bill
  5. God, Buffalo really ruined him! I'm pretty sure we had a 100% chance of making the playoffs at Halloween, too.
  6. From what I can tell, he played in The Cure for less than a year?
  7. Now I'm glad I stopped watching it after the 2nd season. I loved the first season, though.
  8. Definitely MASH was the same way - it was my favorite show in high school and maybe even junior high, but it was unwatchable in the 80s. And, yeah, they did mirror each other in terms of being my two favorite shows at the same time, and not standing them later, also at the same time.
  9. ' But, Happy Days actually jumped the shark way before Fonzie jumped the shark. I would argue it was lame after a great first season. Chuck was gone with no explanation, Fonzie went from a tough guy without a leather jacket to whatever he was after that with a leather jacket, and it went from single camera to multi camera. It really seemed like it was in the 50s. Within a few years, they were wearing 70s haircuts and not even pretending it was in the 50s.
  10. Hate crime hoaxes, like Jussie Smollett's alleged attack, are more common than you think That this case turned out to be a hoax shouldn't come as too big of a shock. A great many hate crime stories turn out to be hoaxes. Simply looking at what happened to the most widely reported hate crime stories over the past 4-5 years illustrates this: not only the Smollett case but also the Yasmin Seweid, Air Force Academy, Eastern Michigan, Wisconsin-Parkside, Kean College, Covington Catholic, and “Hopewell Baptist burning” racial scandals all turned out to be fakes. And, these cases are not isolated outliers. Doing research for a book, Hate Crime Hoax, I was able to easily put together a data set of 409 confirmed hate hoaxes. An overlapping but substantially different list of 348 hoaxes exists at fakehatecrimes.org, and researcher Laird Wilcox put together another list of at least 300 in his still-contemporary book Crying Wolf. To put these numbers in context, a little over 7,000 hate crimes were reported by the FBI in 2017 and perhaps 8-10% of these are widely reported enough to catch the eye of a national researcher. THIS PART SEPARATES CONSERVATIVES FROM LIBERALS, I AM FINDING OUT. I DON'T SEE HOW CRYING WOLF AND LYING EVER HELP YOUR CAUSE: However, the motivations of many hoaxers are honorable if misguided. In college campus hate hoax cases (Kean College, U-Chicago), the individuals responsible almost invariably say that they staged incidents to call attention to real incidents of racist violence on campus. Certainly, the media giants that leap to publicize hate crime stories later revealed to be fakes, and the organizations that line up to defend their “victims” — the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter, CAIR — think that they are providing a public service by fighting bigotry. However, hate crime hoaxers are “calling attention to a problem” that is a very small part of total crimes. There is very little brutally violent racism in the modern USA. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/22/jussie-smollett-empire-attack-fired-cut-video-chicago-fox-column/2950146002/
  11. They did a great job. I started following Weigel and a few others who practice real journalism it seems in Chicago - a few weeks ago. They stayed on it, and the CPD stayed on it. Something that I never thought would happen and I'm sure Jussie didn't, either.
  12. I saw him last summer. He is such an excellent guitarist. I would definitely go.
  13. Did Skinner play the full third period? I only was able to catch a couple of minutes and didn't see him then.
  14. My point is that by calling everything human trafficking, it totally confuses the matter.
  15. You're both right. It's bugged me for a few years now. Why do they call all prostitution sex trafficking now?!? it totally confuses the matter.
  16. The train trestle shot form Trains, Planes and Automobiles WAS Letchworth, though, right?
  17. We should bet!
  18. No, they definitely got booed off the stage. It was the only time I've ever seen that................You are exactly right about Thorogood rocking the place and then wimpy Journey following. Exactly MTV wasn't even on the air when that concert was put together. It started in August. The concert was in September. It definitely was not a factor. That's exactly right except that it was Pete who said it.
  19. And, I listen to the podcast every day. He's the best and just like you said - it's the non sports stuff that is the best part of it.
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