The Space-X Launch

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Florida did a good job flattening the curve, but the trouble now is that we're still on top of the mesa: new cases and deaths are purring along just ...

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But your point is valid; that's a huge chunk'o'change!...

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For all 4 years, i.e., $13K/year? If so, I'm talking about much more aid than that, close to $30K/yr.
I have no dog in this fight. and certainly...

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My 'evidence' is anecdotal and limited in scope (T&F), but there was definitely ample 'aid' offered to many well-off families from round these pa...

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I'd love to say, because it's 'right', but my naïveté does not extend THAT far....

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I was being facetious on my 'need-based' joke, but the facts belie the no-scholarship position. Most of our athletes that have gotten gotten...

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Ha!
Reminds me of the summer I had to drive from El Paso to Dallas one night. The only station I could listen to was WOLFMAN JACK! That's all I...

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Yes, Ivies give athletic scholarships . . . in the very way you describe. Coaches tell Admissions to give preferential treatment to a stud, and then 'need-based'...

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There's a big difference.
Heterosexuals are only attracted to the opposite sex.
Cisgender 'identify' as the sex they are born as, but can...

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-sexual and -gender and two different things, hence the need for this word.
Yeah, I know, it's really complicated, but it's important to many people,...

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That's kinda big news. T&F flourished early in the Ivies and for one to cut it is very sad....

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Cisgender was needed in serious discussions of gender equality. Up till recently other orientations were clearly 'second-class', so they needed a term...

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I was close enough on a Shuttle launch to see the contrail, but never saw actual liftoff. I will take some g-kids down for a launch if this becomes a...

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Oh no, not CISGENDER. I have respect for the whole LBGTQA spectrum, but CISGENDER people are the worst!!...

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There is a direct correlation with one's willingness to delay gratification and one's general intelligence.
Those people showed little concern...

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as ye sow, so shall ye reap
aka
be careful what you wish for.

Basic common sense seems to be in short supply these days....

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Looking sketchy for today's USA manned space-mission (first in 9 years), but my teenaged fascination with space flight is in full bloom.
I'll be...

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And yet the 'freedoms' crowd is agitating more than ever for 'opening up' the lockdown edicts....

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From the looks of it, it's just one big sand trap.



Having played Sawgrass in windy conditions, I could have gotten almost 2...