The Goat Pen

At the end of the documentary they showed a picture of that cop and said he committed suicide I was like "good"

Harsh but damn - this guy put away lot of people.

When my wife went to Vanderbilt and I was living in Nashville waiting on her to graduate I had a Vanderbilt sticker on my car.

Once I had a female cop pull me over for getting stuck in traffic past a redlight. I couldn't see it anymore and just had to wait until traffic cleared.

Anyways, I hear her car in the mall parking driving like a maniac toward me, pulls up next to me and starts in with the "just because you go to Vanderbilt you think you're privileged, that the law doesn't apply to you, when I have news for you prep boy, blah, blah , blah". She wasn't even in uniform, she was with her husband and kids in their damn minivan - driving at least 40 mph to catch up with me in the JC Penney parking lot.

Certainly nothing near the level of absurdity these Duke players faced but if I had an "Ass, Grass or Gas, Nobody Rides for Free" sticker instead, I'm pretty sure she would have let me be.

She had a serious burr up her ass over Vanderbilt trust fund kids

People don't really appreciate the hardships that the privileged have to endure. OTOH:

"Is the real message of the Nifong situation that if you prosecute affluent citizens, use extra care...if you do it with poorer constituents you have plenty of freedom to fuck up and ruin lives?"

Um, pretty much. And even then, it might not be enough. See: O.J., as well as that nutcase who murdered (and dismembered?) a couple (more?) people but still got off. People don't want the rich to suffer. They may say they do and they may even believe that they do, but they don't. They are in awe, mostly. Which also explains Trump's candidacy (as well as Perot's)...

speaking of irresponsible press and false allegations

http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/19/are ... a-success/

I really wish the entire state of northcarolina would organize boycotts of bruce springsteen, cirque del sol bryan adams and whomever else is jumping on the bandwagon

I've also cancelled my home security system and now have my entrances covered in wholefoods cake seal

You'll never get in your house again.

Cunt was the word I heard the most when I was in Australia.

FWIW, Bilas is one of the few in the media sticking up for UNC, too, maintaining that it's an academic, not athletic problem

Saint wrote:Cunt was the word I heard the most when I was in Australia.

Cunt is the word least heard in the hood. If a black person uses the words cock or cunt, it basically means his white:black friend ratio is skewed heavily to the alabaster.

Bitch easily tops cunt among that demographic.

I like to say it so that the "u" rhymes with dune...

Saint wrote:Bitch easily tops cunt among that demographic.

Yep...although, "bitch" is fluid to have both good and bad connotations. Cunt is a one-way street.

Not in Australia. "That bloke's a right good cunt, he is!"

So I saw 'The Big Short'. Loved the movie so got the book. The book was illuminating. Why people didn't go to jail, I don't know.

the people that run the ratings agency should be first in line

eCat wrote:the people that run the ratings agency should be first in line

Absolutely.

I know the guy that was the rating agencies' lead counsel. Dude made a shitload. Shitload. It paid for his Hampton's place.

Owlman wrote:So I saw 'The Big Short'. Loved the movie so got the book. The book was illuminating. Why people didn't go to jail, I don't know.

My thoughts exactly - just pure fraud at every level - great movie and very good book as well.

The original article in the New Yorker that Michael Lewis wrote which was the basis for The Big Short used to be required reading by my team. You couldn't start working for me until you had finished that and an article in Wired about the Gaussian copula function. Both excellent.

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Damn! Where is that? St. Louis after 9/11 was the longest lines I have seen but nothing like that!