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  1. 26 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    I'd really like to see PJ again.  never seen george or nicks, neither are a bucket list for me and (not sure what they might be like at this age) so I might try to get a one day pass cheap for those days.

    first weekend is going fast.  I think people are so hard up for live music the lineup isn't going to matter at all this year but Tanya Tucker being Weekend one only may be driving it.  she can duet with George.

     

    My gf is really excited about seeing Tanya Tucker.

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  2. 10 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    Middle schoolers post here?

     

    I'm excited to see George and Stevie. I love Phoebe Bridgers and Megan Thee Stallion. It's called having eclectic music tastes and loving live music. I like Billie Eilish too. Why do I want to see Foo Fighters or Pearl Jam yet again if I can see other acts? And I love FF and Pearl Jam btw.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    That's what he has his YouTube recommendations feed for. Haven't you seen the culture war garbage he's been posting?

    That'd be like me reading all of David Irving's Holocaust denial writings and speeches just before a grad seminar on Nazi Germany and/or the Holocaust.

  4. 1 minute ago, TexasEd said:

    Systemic racism is most notably playing out today as republican legislators try to limit voter access to minorities.  They do it under the guise of stopping election fraud, security, etc.  When the only evidence of fraud they can cite is that the guy at the top of the ticket lost (while being the most unpopular president I can think of) and at the same time winning the down ballot races.

    It is playing out as a desperate attempt to hold onto power in spite of demographic and electoral changes so they try to rig the process.

    The incremental process the opponents of CRT claim to support is actually working at rolling back progress for equality back to the days of Jim Crow laws.

    In a perfect world we wouldn't have a need for affirmative action programs, but we would have to get rid of the racists first.

    They aren't even trying to hide it anymore with Jim Crow terms such as "Purity Vote."

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  5. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    My god, if it's as bad as the Lollapalooza lineup.  Seriously, I know we old guard say this every year.  But guys..be honest.  I knew half the bands, I just didn't like 'em.  

    I just don't know who 80% of these bands are and frankly...most of them sound fake:

    https://www.lollapalooza.com/

    But yeah, it's ACL down the street from our humble South Austin abode.  So I'll go.  But honestly, road trips to TCU and OU sound a helluva lot more fun if the lineup looks even remotely close to to this Lolla shitshow.

    People will be like I waited two years for this fucking shit?

  6. Just now, RomaVicta said:

    So, any information I could dig out about anybody's life should be published on the remote possibility it could save a life?

    C'mon. The Marine in you avatar would laugh you out of the room.

    Reply as you will. I'll leave the thread for Jake Ehlinger.

    He's actually dead so he can't laugh anymore. And we were both machine gunners and NCOs for the same gd unit. Gtfo with your melodrama. And no this is a unique death that resonates with people much like Basilone's death resonated with people.

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  7. 12 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    So, people will die if we never learn Ehlinger's cause of death.

    Instead of a heartfelt discussion between Ward and the Beav, there will only be awkward silence and sad, sad doubt about the true dangers of whatever cut a young life short. 

    If you think this is opioid or fentanyl related (I still don't much care), maybe you could sit down and recall why you are even aware of these issues. Then, get off your dead ass and do your own research. Arm yourself with easily obtained knowledge and, talk to your child about something unrelated to sports. 

    Don't rely on the Sports Page or Surly for whatever a "teaching moment" looks like in your corny family world.

    Maybe you could use Ehlinger's death as a teaching moment about how a life lost young is so terrible. You can even throw in something about being respectful and not prying into something that is actually none of your business. Or maybe, you can review your posts on this thread and explain how brilliant you are and how everybody else is so dumb.

    Sorry, I find this shit idiotic. How did parents teach their children anything before college football?

    Blast away.

    Because a tragic death by someone like Jake resonates with people that are connected to UT or football or whatever. It absolutely matters that people know what happened to him. It could save someone's life.

  8. Drops tomorrow on Amazon Prime. Gonna be tough to watch I think but hopefully it is good.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pq5Usc_JDA

    https://tv.avclub.com/barry-jenkins-outdoes-himself-in-the-transcendent-under-1846804108

    Barry Jenkins outdoes himself in the transcendent Underground Railroad

    In late April, a clip from Chelsea Handler’s 2016 series, Chelsea Does, in which a Confederate apologist compared enslaved human beings to farm equipment, went viral. What the man tells Handler isn’t that shocking to Black people educated in the South, but it’s still horrifying: “People were taken care of. Would you take a tractor that you just bought brand new and tear it up, misuse it? No, you’re going to take care of it, ’cause you just spent a pile of money on that. Those people produced their crops, worked their fields, so you’re not gonna mistreat something like that.”

    Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu), the hero of Amazon Prime Video’s The Underground Railroad, is not a tractor. She’s a person who has never tasted pure, untainted freedom but nonetheless thirsts for it. No matter what the Constitution might’ve said at the time, freedom is the natural human condition and Cora is driven to escape her captivity. This puts her, like every enslaved person, in existential conflict with an evil institution. After all, a tractor or a piece of furniture won’t defy you, nor will it slip away at the first opportunity. Slavery could only function through the deliberate and ongoing dehumanization of a people. It was a torturous process that would begin anew with the birth of every Black child, but one that never fully succeeded, despite the chains and whips, because the human spirit is not so easily destroyed.

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