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I am sitting in a doctor’s office so don’t have the ability to do so but would have posted George Bailey’s “the money isn’t here because it’s …” speech from “it’s a Wonderful Life”

I'll just say that obscenities abound in this day and age. Calling the institution that puts scientists and astronauts into the World, obscene because that institution benefits from ridiculous donations from alums who want to glorify their own names with buildings and endowments named after themselves seems just a tad too much. Why they could build hospitals with that money! What is Mott? They could cure diseases with that money! What is the human genome project? They don't do everything right or for the right reasons but heck if there aren't much worse institutions out there. This isn't the Saudi royal family sitting on a pile of cash torturing anyone who gainsays them.

The Trump fans think Putin is cool because Trump is so head over heels for Putin. They all want their gold plated toilet to worship America on.

Refusing to educate

There are worse entities out there than any university. I have been seeing this "Conservative" trope lately about how our kids don't need to have their ideas challenged by the satanists in the ivory towers of academia and we'd all be better off if most went to trade school. I'm disgusted by the classism involved.

People who don't value education make me puke.

I'm with you there. I will listen to "Turn the Page" and "Mainstreet" and for B-52s will listen to "Roam" or "Rock Lobster" but yes, "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "Love Shack" are long sharp needles to my ears.

Well, the blew Nebraska's doors off on the road. So that's nice. 102 points in college BB is kinda rare.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/11/27/olympics-boycott-berlin-1936/

Interesting thing I just read University of Alabama Endowment $1.42B University of Cincinnati Endowment $1.4B

Gaetz is still in Congress?

they are flailing.

needed to be sooner

wtf is the big deal about Kamela Harris not wanting to use bluetooth? It is a known security risk.

that kid for UCLA played out of his mind. give him his due.

we would have sent diplomats but you guys would have tried to murder them with the noise weapon you've been using against them everywhere. So, to avoid our being murdered or maimed...we aren't going. we would have sent our athletes but you guys might have found some Muslims or Christians among them and sent them to a reeducation camp we would have sent some of our business leaders but you would have had them murdered like you are doing to your own business leaders Very diplomatic of us.

I have no doubt that Athens is a fun town. The only thing that condemns it for me is the existence of the song "Love Shack" by Athens natives the B-52s, a song so repulsive that i once went happily to a month deployment to the desert to avoid its constant airplay on MTV and the radio.

was just looking at the Regents meeting minutes on that site you sent G2, the $17B number appears to be pretty accurate. https://regents.umich.edu/files/meetings/12-21/2021-12-II-1.pdf

Diplomatic boycott over the olympics is not enough. None of it hurts Xi enough for what he's done and is threatening.

Finally some discussion about the odd lack of response from the Pentagon to Jan 6.

The most amazing number to me is the endowment. It doesn't compare to the $53B Harvard one but still very substantial and indicative that some of M's grads have gone on to make some coin.

Ooops...I specifically remember the 50k number. Go with the relative difference. I'm sure Georgia didn't suddenly find 25,000 more kids interested in college in 2021. update: the wikipedia number for 2021 for Georgia is 38,920 so that's a nice bump for them.

Now that is good leadership!

Some tales of the tape between the two schools playing in Miami on New Year's Eve: Older school: Georgia founded 1785, Michigan founded 1817 Bigger school: Michigan 44,663; Georgia 29,765 Endowment: Michigan $17 billion; Georgia $1.36 billion Most interesting political grad: Michigan Raoul Wallenberg (Swedish Holocaust hero and victim of the KGB); Georgia Sally Yates (former acting attorney general) Most interesting business grad: Georgia Daniel Amos (founder and CEO of AFLAC); Michigan Henry Bloch (founder of H&R Block) -- Michigan has a LOOONG list including the Meijer family, all sorts of mega billionaires...I settled on this guy. Most interesting entertainment grad: Georgia Wayne Knight (Newman from Seinfeld show); Michigan Ann B. Davis (The Brady Bunch); Most interesting sports grad: Michigan Jim Abbot (MLB pitcher who had to remove his glove to be a belly itcher); Georgia Matt Stafford (former NFL QB and currently employed along the West coast reported to be prospering in dry goods); Most interesting military grad: Georgia Charles Beckwith (US Army Special Forces, creator of Delta Force; Michigan Samuel Phillips (Air Force General and head of NASA's Lunar Landing Program during Apollo project and head of National Security Agency) Highest academic ranking in: Georgia: Insurance Tied for #1; Michigan #1 in social work, sociology, marketing Number of Astronauts: Michigan 12; Number of space missions entirely crewed by Michigan alums 2 (Gemini IV and Apollo 15); Georgia still working out if the Earth is round. Number of graduates killed in US Civil War: Georgia 100; Michigan not as many but they fought on the correct side.

the 3d dimensions of physical geography maybe. The dimension of popular will is entirely asymetric for Vladdie. He won't break the Ukrainian popular will to resist Big Russia.