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  1. Yeah, you've still got various years or even decades old clips of Dems supporting trans and gay rights.
  2. Being a UT law grad does not make one an actual Longhorn, an adoptive one at best. That's why hot wheels is so annoying. I'm fairly certain the largest percentage of UT law grads after UT undergrads is aggy.
  3. Well, skin color, and the wave of Irish immigration mostly subsided, so there were no pikey caravans to shit on. The Hispanics keep on coming, giving a fresh reason for nativist outrage.
  4. Yeah and those charismatic people can sell propaganda a lot better than wonks. Bill Clinton is and was a huge wonk, but you'd never know it from his campaigns. Also, Dems have been trying to sell high-minded ideas for decades that in theory (and probably practical applications) would benefit the working class. For a variety of practical reasons, they never get any of it done (selling out to corporate interests + recalcitrant Congress, related issues) and are perceived as having bullshit the working class and utterly failed to deliver.
  5. And how and why did the SS detail let a flabby old man up to even do that?
  6. The settlement of the opposition is not a public document, but it appears that Baylor failed to explicitly curtail use of the interlocking BU, despite your summary of usage above appearing to be accurate. Another super-bizarre thing, Baylor applied to register a block black interlocking BU for educational services in about 2020 on an intent-to-use basis, meaning they did not claim that they had used it. They eventually filed a statement of use claiming first use in 1931. That's a big ol what the fuck. Boston U also extended time to oppose that registration, but ultimately did not oppose. Bit of a clown show on both sides, despite Pirkey Barber repping Baylor.
  7. I will say that something is fishy about it. I don't think the ear wound is consistent with a ballistic projectile and the whole fist-raising thing is pretty bizarre. Of course, that's enough for MAGA to come up with all manner of wild conspiracy theories. I'll just stop with "it's fishy."
  8. Of course and Texas too to a slightly smaller extent. But what was somewhat startling to me is the degree of segregation in the early 1970s. Also that school desegregation wasn't eliminating the last vestige official oppression, but the vanguard. We all intellectually know this, but seeing it "live and in color" in a very recent timeframe is moving..
  9. Here's the complaint. https://heitnerlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/Baylor-Boston-lawsuit.pdf The key and driving circumstance here is that Boston U opposed Baylor's first attempt to register the interlocking BU, but they settled and Boston withdrew its opposition. Boston's current use appears to be in violation of that settlement agreement.
  10. I dunno, could be an interesting tussle. Both pretty clearly entitled to use BU, the question then becoming a) is the interlocking design sufficiently distinctive and b) is anyone actually confused as to origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person. I think the answer to b) is a fairly resounding: Probably also the answer to a), as well. But the "property theory" of trademarks is likely to come into play. Like most trademark cases, this will probably settle.
  11. I think it's pretty simple. A lot of or most of them are "white enough" to "pass" or so they think. So they start acting like mighty whitey at the earliest opportunity, including looking down on those darker than them and more recently arrived. I think this is evidence that, while Hispanics have been discriminated against, and mightily so, slavery and Jim Crow takes it to a whole other level (your skepticism), that mere discrimination does not. Speaking of mighty whitey, I watched this, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/harvest/, last night. The class of 1982 of Leland MS was one of the first integrated classes in Mississippi. I knew this was going on, in an abstract fashion, but that these people would have been in high school with me took it to a whole other level.
  12. They also need to start making fun of their hair.
  13. What's alternately hilarious and horrifying, or maybe simultaneously, is that someone who is deliberately trying to be stupid and funny still can't quite match the stupidity of the real thing.
  14. Well, of course, there are lots of things that "injure" them that they never encounter, because they don't exist. Unlawful immigrants voting and receiving social security; trans kids beating out their kids for D1 scholarships and other important shit; stolen elections. All that good shit.
  15. And people's feelings often have an inverse correlation to the actual crime level. Brown kids on ATVs and such.
  16. I think you can certainly argue that the HSR juice is not worth the squeeze, but that applies regardless of funding. Subsidies aren't really the issue when it comes to transportation infrastructure.
  17. Well, he did con numerous companies into licensing his name, and a bunch of banks to loan him a shit ton of money that he collects 6-7 figure annual "management fees" while paying them back.
  18. But he was compensated with a multiplicity of units of exchange within the realm of the empire. (this is something the superintendent of schools sent my Dad after he won the county school writing contest -- as the only entrant, but youthful verbosity aside, my Dad was a terrific writer).
  19. At least one, who is a UT Law alum. Don't think he's much of a football coach.
  20. They don't care. They're not 'muricans, therefore they are transpedosekshul globalis.
  21. Well, Friends for sure.
  22. Well, he's about 5-8 or so, which explains everything. That and "markwayne."
  23. https://www.aarp.org/social-security/faq/when-spouse-dies/
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