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Wrong. We are UNT fans. We must bitch. If we lose, our job is easy. If we win, we must dissect the game until we can find something to bitch about, and make it reason to call for the coach's head. We're classy that way.

I guess we should be upset that Kansas St, LSU, Tulsa, Rice, ULL, ULM, FIU, Troy, FAU, and MTSU didn't leave their starters in for the whole game during football season. How dare they not finish strong?!?!?!111!!! Eleventy-one!

I couldn't wait to get home and log on to see what people would conjur up to bitch about for this game. There's always something. I pretty much couldn't stop laughing start to finish. It was fun.

I'll preface this with the fact that as a textbook rep during NCLB, I am absolutely convinced that millions upon millions upon millions of dollars thrown at public education buy me a nice house in Frisco, but produce absolutely no results in education. I've thought a lot about the voucher issue, and my concern with it isn't one of religion. It's one of seeing chain schools pop up all over the country with names like "Westfield Elementary, brought to you by Chili's". The Berlitz's and the Sylvans of the world would expand into general education, and pump out a cookie cutter curriculum that isn't wasteful like public school, but would be about as useful as a degree from the University of Phoenix. Also, since the vouchers would be federal funding, the government would still have its hand in what gets taught and what gets printed in the textbooks. I'm not convinced that the end product would be an improvement over the existing boondoggle that is public schooling. As I see the profit motive, it's my job as a capitalist to provide as little product possible for as much money as possible. I just don't think that the average school, accessible with vouchers alone, would be on par with the Hockaday School. The plus side of public education is that at least it has minimum standards. In the wealthier neighborhoods, the parents see to it that those minimum standards are exceeded. In the poorer neighborhoods, they live with what they get. You go private, and I'm not sure the poorer neighborhoods would even get the current minimum. You stay public, and we continue to increasingly dumb down the population by catering to the absolute lowest common denominator. I honestly don't know what the solution to education is. I've seen first hand the complete and utter waste that is public education...especially in large urban districts. Those places are little fiefdoms run by also ran politicians. So what do we do? Eliminate local property and federal income taxes for education and just let the people pay as they go? Nah, that puts welfare truants all over the streets. I am at a complete loss for any kind of answer on this issue.

I think the message is that both activities should be conducted at the same time. The filterless cigarettes for sale are to avoid the pillow talk afterwards.

To a certain extent I agree. On the other hand, how many free market capitalist UNT alumni would have achieved a college degree without government subsidies to their public university tuition?

This is not meant to be a snarky question at all. How is it that a 6,500 seat basketball arena costs more than a 30,000 seat football stadium? Are seat backs and roofs really that expensive?

A ha! I've been blaming shareholders and market speculators for this one for years. Nice, steady high single digit growth has been "unacceptable" beginning probably in the mid nineties. It's one of the reasons that I left my job because the annual quota increases ranging from 47-80% were simply not sustainable year after year. But those shareholders demanded that kind of performance dammit, and if your puny 25% annual growth was all you could do, then you're the biggest a-hole in the company. Things got mighty shady around there when the publicly held company sold us off to the private equity firm with borrowed money based on fabricated double digit growth statements. None of this had anything to do with either political party IMO. It's just a culture of get rich quick greed, it's a ponzy scheme, and it's bound to fail eventually, leaving the last one holding the bag with a bill of goods indeed. ETA -- I guess I should add the spurning of dividend companies in favor of capital growth over the past 15 years or so. In recent times it simply hasn't been enough to make a profit and reap the dividends.

Now that you mention it, I've been to Katz's once. Liked it. After much googling, I was able to figure out what the Central Grill is, and I've seen it, but not been in. I park on the other side of campus, so I don't get over to that side much unless it's game day, in which case, I'm probably eating my own wings in the parking lot. I'll make an effort to get over there one of these days. ETA -- As for the Pourhouse, nice joint. Really it is. But if this makes any sense, it's too nice for my pedestrian tastes. I never have been able to reconcile the concept of sports, beer, and barca loungers in a retail environment, but that's just me. It seems to appeal to a lot of people.

I, for one, would welcome our new pretzel logician overlords.

You know, in looking at it again, I wonder if that's the point.

Drawn by an SMU grad no doubt.

Check this out. Where the money goes

Thank god for monitors!

They can't be all bad.

Is that the hamburger joint over by Chase bank? Looks like a retro diner inside?

"I'd rather be in a UNT fox hole than an army of one!"

Specific needs were addressed and hopefully met. For this I am pleased. Taking an objective look at class strength rankings, we are in a three-way tie with MTSU and WKU for 102 on Rivals.

Defense will be a new concept for our defense.

I truly have no idea how Nancy Pelosi ever came to power. She's driven by extreme agenda (which I don't tolerate on either side of the aisle). But on top of that, she seems incapable of independent thought or intelligible articulation. Meh. I guess if you live in California, you run on subsidized free middle school lunch room abortions, socialism, and wind farms. If you live in Kansas*, you run on subsidized free middle school lunch room Jesus and abstinence, robber barons, and hemi engines. *Nothing against Kansas. Was the first "red" state that came to mind that wasn't Texas.

This guy

What!?!? No Michael Moore recommendations? Thirded on Fog of War, When we were Kings, and Hearts of Darkness

I would never even consider coming within a hundred yards of marijuana in the state of Texas. Wouldn't want to spend the rest of my living days involuntarily quartered down in Huntsville. That said, I've no moral problem whatsoever with anybody getting high. As Dennis Miller once said, you don't see a guy on marijuana rear back and jam his pool cue through his partner's eye socket in a bar. He's too busy laughing at the balls. (paraphrased) I can think of no single reason for pot to be illegal. I'm pretty sure than if ole' Chris Columbus had found Indians smoking reefer instead of tobacco, we'd be debating smoking bans in bars of an entirely different kind right now. But as long as it continues to be illegal, and as long as we keep fruitlessly pumping billions of dollars into a "war on drugs" and as long as we keep throwing hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people into overcrowded jails to rot away for decades on end because they chose to get high, I'm not touching the stuff.

I buy season tickets because they're unilaterally forced upon me in my student fees! That money should be going to the music program or the armadillo artsy thing or the albino squirrel memorial fund!

I think that sums it up quite nicely.