buddha

the loop is a ghost town now compared to what it was pre covid. still lots of people on michigan avenue. the whole area is transitioning from high end stores for tourists and office spaces to condos and places for locals to buy goods and hang out. its the fastest growing part of the city.

marcel duchamp. challenging you as to what is art and what is not. i dont particularly like that kind of art (or much of any modern art), but that's what it is. but there is truth to that criticism of art. i like art that is beautiful, and there is plenty of that in the art museum. im not much of an impressionist guy, but the best way to see them is to look at what art was and how they changed it. from pictures of monarchy and battles and jesus to pictures of trains, haystacks, and people on the street. it was quite a revolution. similar to going from haystacks and lillypads amd people on the street to urinals to picasso and leger to soup cans and mao to "ce n'est pas un pipe". but i'm a sucker for the medieval. so i always head to the suits of armor and the pictures of monks praying and jesus dying.

we dont have immigration reform because a majority if americans do not want immigration reform. americans love the immigration story of this country, they do not like the current situation at the border and illegal immigration. that includes all americans, including hispanic americans. being "anti illegal immigration" is a winning issue for republicans and a loser for democrats, who were dragged to the left in their primary season last election.

exactly! we NEED more immigrants. they should make it easier to immigrate legally. much easier.

allen robinson might be a good buy low candidate. they need a receiver.

i dont think any of this sucks at all. im glad stafford got to a super bowl and i hope he wins it.

that's the thing, people talk about who is "qualified" and who isnt. what's the "qualification"? plenty of people from all sorts of different backgrounds have been successful jurists. just get a smart person who writes well. that's the important thing. there are sites that will score judges on their writing ability: clarity, conciseness, argument. of the people mentioned as potential candidates they all score well. brown is a little lower than the others, but the others score very high. almost all the current members of the court - liberal and conservative - scored very high. everyone who biden is talking about nominating will be more than "qualified."

well yeah. i'm not saying republicans dont do the same optics that democrats do, i'm pushing back on chas' claim that conservatives identity politics is just white males. EVERYBODY'S politics in american history was white males, not just conservatives. and conservatives have nominated almost as many non-white males to the courts as liberals.

female supreme court appointments: democrats: 3 republicans: 2 black supreme court appointments: democrats: 1 republicans 1 ah yes, "conservatives" and their traditional obsessions with white male exclusivity in politics. For almost all of american history, both liberals and conservatives were all about white male exclusivity in politics. and the gender barrier was broken by noted liberal ronald reagan.

so would it have been better to take the carolina deal? that said, i think stafford said he didnt want to go there and the lions were trying to do him a solid.

michigan will probably have a self insured retention, but not that large. insurance paid for most of that.

those are seasons the vikings had over the last decade. why did you jump back into this thread? lol.

10-6 11-5 13-3 10-6 yeah, a bunch of 8-8 seasons. now do jacksonville!!

got it. one lucky season in a decade = good ownership. gtfo.

8 losing seasons in ten years = good franchise. math isnt that hard for me. you on the other hand, seem to have a different version...

lots of homeless go to that library all the time. stinks the place up. i worked in that big red building you probably walked by. its right by the library. i would get off on the harold washington stop. every day there was an open drug market in that little square by john marshall. people patroling the area for the drug sellers. junkies all over the place. one day they got into a fight (surprise) and a bunch of people followed a guy into the red line stop underground, chased him onto a train, and executed him right in front of the passengers. the next day cpd had a marked car parked in the square every day. miraculously, the drug dealing and the violence stopped. not sure if its still there cause my company moved to the other side of the loop.

or their actual loss to the bears.

its like that everywhere, but its not always enforced.

and they definitely should be nominating more justices that went to law schools other than harvard and yale.

amy coney barrett is the only justice that isnt an ivy leaguer.

i was told jacksonville was fine because they won a playoff game 7 years ago.

insurance probably wrote that check.

bears and vikings just hired black gms.

its just something to fight about. judges are appointed on their demographics as much as their skills. or their political connections. judges are blocked for the same reason all the time. the democrats blocked Estrada for that very reason, they didnt want a conservative hispanic moved up to the higher courts because they knew he would be a potential supreme court candidate for the republicans. if the republicans win and get another appointment soon, you can look for and indian or asian american conservative to be in line for a spot. if thomas retires, he'll likely be replaced by a black person by either party.