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To be fair, Kenny Williams was a hypothetical player.

Having resources makes it a bit worse, but I don't think we should be excusing drunk drivers who don't have the resources. It's still the same risk of killing someone else.

Not saying it's OK, but we all do it in some form, and the lying isn't what kills people, the drunk driving does. I don't want to take the focus off that.

He's a punk ass clown because he drove drunk and put lives in danger twice. We all lie to police, parents, employers, etc. when we get caught doing something wrong.

Too much of the burden of paying for K-12 schools falls on local governments, making it easy for the haves to wall themselves off from the have-nots. Those property tax dollars in Hinsdale and Lake Forest need to be going to all schools, not just theirs. I'm all for making community colleges and lower-tier public universities more affordable, but not for just wiping out a bunch of already-existing debt.

My family moved to Indiana due to property taxes and put me in an online charter school. I'm not complaining because it has worked out really well for me but it shouldn't have to work this way. I don't know that the Federal government can bar states from using property taxes to fund schools. It would be a great idea though.

I don't even see anybody out there advocating what I'm suggesting for K-12 education. 20+ candidates in the early Democratic debates and I didn't hear it coming from a single one.

I'm not comparing student loan forgiveness to GOP tax cuts. I'm comparing them to massive investment in K-12 education in inner cities, which will do a whole lot more to build generational wealth in communities of color than student loan forgiveness, not to mention the massive reduction in the public burden when it comes to the criminal justice system and entitlements.

Whether it be professors or campuses, neither seem like something that the government should be funding indirectly by forgiving student loan debt.

There is a very close connection between academia and the liberal/progressive political establishment. Forgiving student loans reduces the pressure on colleges to cut costs, which would include cutting salaries. This is the left looking out for their friends disguised as a progressive plan to help young people struggling with debt. Meanwhile, in the most poverty-stricken areas, kids have so little in the way of K-12 education and support that they're very unlikely to ever even have college as an option. I could get behind a plan to have up to 5 years of interest-free deferment to allow graduates some time to build up their salary before having to start making payments, but that's about it.

I read this board for a few months before joining and it was pretty clear that those ranks were based on quantity and not quality.

Student loan forgiveness favors people who recently went to college. If you're 10+ years out of college you had to pay yours off 100% but someone gets out of paying theirs because they happen to be a few years younger? Let's use that money to make K-12 schools better in the areas of greatest need.

One or two days isn't going to be a big deal (though she did get her first dose already). We're talking about a thousand or so doses out of millions available. I don't like Pence and don't trust that he will leverage his vaccine in a good way, but I'm not against it in principle, and the narrative that more deserving people are going to go weeks or months without it doesn't fit with the math involved.

How many people, if any, are going to die because of some people having to wait an extra few days to get their vaccine? My mom's a nurse and she's been caring for patients for 9 months now and we've managed to keep our entire household from getting it this long, so I think we could manage another couple days. Even if a few people die in the short term because of the wait but more people decide to get the vaccine, fewer people die in the long run.

I'm not well-versed in Economics, so this is a serious question: Why are these trillion+ stimulus packages getting doled out mostly to companies and states with essentially leftover scraps going directly to people? I did the math and based on the number of people filing tax returns and how many dependents they claimed, and if a $1 trillion stimulus went 100% to taxpayers, that would be $4000 per adult and $2000 per child and it seems like that would keep all of us going for a while. Is it just the reality that both parties are owned by corporations or is there actual benefit to the way it's getting done?

Trump knows he's leaving office on January 20. He's known it since a couple days after the election. Everything he's done since then has been geared towards getting as many people as possible to buy so hard into the idea that Biden is illegitimate that they don't notice when their lives get better while he's President.

Doses of vaccines are arriving regularly. A handful of high-profile government officials getting vaccinated even if they're high risk really just pushes the date everyone else gets vaccinated back by a day or two. I don't have a problem with the Pres, VP, Senate and House leaders getting vaccinated first, along with governors. Those who haven't completely given up their brains to conspiracy theories might be reassured.

Unless your post took 17 years to show up, that age is off a bit

This thread doesn't appear to be terribly active, but is anybody watching the Big 10 game? Three interceptions and 2 missed FGs in the last hour. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

If people are delusional enough to believe that the government is pushing a dangerous vaccine, it's not going to be hard for them to believe that Pence is getting a placebo to keep up the charade.

One reason I would be OK with trading Vaughn for the right return (it would have to be a really good one) is that he is easily blocked. If you bat right handed and only play 1B/DH, you better hit like Abreu, and he might, but you lose a lot of roster flexibility when you give him a roster spot.

Jackass may be too strong a term, but it's very insensitive, and it's also a false equivalency. Fried foods kill people the people who are eating them, they aren't killing people because the person eating them is coming into close contact with others and not wearing a mask.

There is no evidence that it prevents the spread of the virus because nobody has collected data on it, but it should be self-evident. A virus makes someone sick by infecting their cells and replicating billions of times. The virus can't prevent someone from getting sick without preventing it from replicating billions of times in their cells.

Supposed to be RAA not WAR.

I saw this and thought it was interesting. The only way it would have made sense for the Sox to compete with the Mets offer is if he and Grandal were both in the lineup every day as catcher and DH, and I'm not sure McCann was good enough to justify blocking Vaughn. It will suck on the days Grandal is off because I think Collins will be a black hole in the lineup but I don't know how that could have been avoided.