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ON THIS DAY: March 13, 2018
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ON THIS DAY: March 12, 2018
March 12th is
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TCS: What We Can Learn From This Sweet Relationship
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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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MUTUALISM: two organisms of different species in a relationship where each individual benefits from the activity of the other.
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Professional sports have been defined by its media, pay its participants and let students remain so.
By ann summers
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Brackets and rankings help set betting odds, and should those revenues get taxed also to benefit the participants besides the bettors. But in terms of the collegiate sports industry, it shouldn’t be about pie-slicing envy, but about fairness for everyone?
This weekend was “Selection Sunday” for the major US collegiate men’s basketball championship, wherein brackets for single-elimination tournament play are chosen by a NCAA committee to much televised fanfare.
The problem associated with all this spectacle is the money, and the looming results of a scandal involving shoe companies, assistant coaches, and the FBI at multiple schools. Folded into this are matters related to other collegiate sports, all generally centering about money. Ultimately, aside from audience interest for the usual loyalty reasons, it’s about media contracts and the informal economy of wagering, whether it’s office pools, fantasy football, or March Madness brackets.
Amidst this is the red herring of wages, whether students should be paid to participate in sporting events because of the money rather than the sport itself. This often arises because of the differences between school employees in wages when the coach even on a base salary can earn many times more than even the highest paid faculty member or central administrator.
Exploitation occurs, regardless. In no way would paying students ever achieve parity considering the structure of universities or intercollegiate athletics. Sports contracts have inflated values of great complexity as a norm.
Various proposals have been floated, including unionizing student athletes, but it’s always about money and not learning. When corruption is normalized, whether by informal economies or add-on benefits like shoe company contracts profits are disproportionately distributed, especially with cartels and club goods.
The political economy of intercollegiate sports needs to reflect the industry, considering the dominance of media money and merchandise promotion.
Student-athletes should get to remain amateurs. Students should always be students. Part-time jobs should remain elective and not a function of corporate profit.
- If you really want to pay age 18-22 year-old cohort athletes, pay them as non-student professionals. They should not be students and the only connection should be the branding.
- Better the pre-professional vocational training than the self-fulfilling priorities of false expectations blunting learning.
Division One (NCAA) revenue sports should have two paths:
- either become like Ivy D-1 with no athletic scholarships, or
- simply become brand-vehicles for professional leagues with non-student players.
For example
The G-League NBA Reno Bighorns could disappear to be replaced by the University of Nevada, Reno’s Wolfpack.
The BCS could be acknowleged for what it has become, a minor league for NFL development.
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ON THIS DAY: March 11, 2018
March 11th is
Spring Forward – Daylight Savings
Eat Your Noodles Day
National Promposal Day
Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day
World Plumbing Day *
Worship of Tools Day
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ON THIS DAY: March 10, 2018
March 10th is
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Landline Telephone Day
Mario (Mar.10) Day
Pack Your Lunch Day
U.S. Salvation Army Day *
U.S. Paper Money Day *
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
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ON THIS DAY: March 9, 2018
March 9th is
Crab Meat Day
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Meatball Day
Panic Day
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Word Cloud: INNER-B!ȾȻH
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
Originally posted on July 15, 2016 – I still feel under the weather, so I’m giving you a “golden oldie” this week that’s in keeping with Women’s History Month.
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I normally try to abstain from vulgar language in my writing, but profiling Carolyn Kizer (1925-2014), it’s hard to avoid the word “Bitch” since that is the title of one of her most famous poems.
“Women writers are the custodians of the world’s best-kept secret. Merely the private lives of one half of humanity.” (Carolyn Kizer, from Pro Femina)
Much of Carolyn Kizer’s work is about the inner workings of women’s minds. She brilliantly confronted the 1950s constricted role of daughter-wife-mother, revealing the woman hidden by the macquillage.
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There’s a lot of pain and anger buried beneath smiles and polite small talk. Many women cringe when reminded how desperately their younger selves sought approval. Especially those of us who grew up in the 1950s and early 60s, when we were force-fed a steady diet of “let him win” and “boys like pretty girls, not smart ones.”
BITCH
Now, when he and I meet, after all these years,
I say to the bitch inside me, don’t start growling.
He isn’t a trespasser anymore,
Just an old acquaintance tipping his hat.
My voice says, “Nice to see you,”
As the bitch starts to bark hysterically.
He isn’t an enemy now,
Where are your manners, I say, as I say,
“How are the children? They must be growing up.”
At a kind word from him, a look like the old days,
The bitch changes her tone; she begins to whimper.
She wants to snuggle up to him, to cringe.
Down, girl! Keep your distance
Or I’ll give you a taste of the choke-chain.
“Fine, I’m just fine,” I tell him.
She slobbers and grovels.
After all, I am her mistress. She is basically loyal.
It’s just that she remembers how she came running
Each evening, when she heard his step;
How she lay at his feet and looked up adoringly
Though he was absorbed in his paper;
Or, bored with her devotion, ordered her to the kitchen
Until he was ready to play.
But the small careless kindnesses
When he’d had a good day, or a couple of drinks,
Come back to her now, seem more important
Than the casual cruelties, the ultimate dismissal.
“It’s nice to know you are doing so well,” I say.
He couldn’t have taken you with him;
You were too demonstrative, too clumsy,
Not like the well-groomed pets of his new friends.
“Give my regards to your wife,” I say. You gag
As I drag you off by the scruff,
Saying, “Goodbye! Goodbye! Nice to have seen you again.”
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who knew? Victoria Nuland is the Deep State
By ann summers
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Nastya Rybka, who was allegedly one of several sex workers on the yacht. She filmed the trip in an Instagram post, footage of which can be seen in Navalny’s video. In it, Deripaska sits next to Prikhodko and light-heartedly tells Rybka, “We have bad relations with America. Why? Because Sergei Eduardovich’s [Prikhodko] friend is responsible for them. Her name’s Nuland,” he said, referring to Victoria Nuland, then a senior State department official working on Russia. “Nuland, when she was your age, spent a month on a Russian whaling boat. After that she hates our country.”
Like WWII Gremlins, the Deep State is responsible for every snafu made in the factory for conspiracy theory machines.
So it makes sense when Oleg Deripaska writes his op-ed in the Daily Cellar, that pizzeria basement where all the 400 pound guys are, hacking DNC servers, and sewing bowties for Tucker Carlson.
Just when you thought #TrumpRussia couldn’t get wackier… Aluminum Czar Oleg Deripaska, holder of Paul Manafort’s marker, decides he wants to weigh in on the RWNJ meme of the Deep State, probably also the real killer OJ Simpson’s looking for.
Lest you think that RWNJs are the only purveyor of the Deep State CT, Oleg Deripaska, now claims it’s in charge of the entire operation of those persecuting President Dennison. Because it couldn’t be Russian trolls, hackers, and spies who meddle in the US election. And it couldn’t be members of the GOP who took Russian money via PACs and superPACS.
Oh, and George Soros is the real enemy… who knew! He’s going to at least get an executive producer credit on the Trump regime’s biopic.
Deripaska is another Russian oligarch friend of Putin and Deputy PM Prikhodko. He’s also the subject of some interesting relationships including interfering in the politics of Ukraine and working with Paul Manafort, but more recently being outed in order for his “mistress’ to negotiate being freed from Thai custody. Gangsters couldn’t be involved in any of this… nah. Oleg’s not doing anything to counteract the bad press of the video released by Alexi Navalny
But who knew Oleg leaned Republican and loves quoting Teddy Roosevelt!
When I attended the Munich Security Conference in February, the extraordinary, coordinated message of a panel of U.S. senators was summarized by moderator Victoria Nuland, former assistant secretary of state under President Barack Obama, as: “Deep State-proud loyalists giv[ing] broad reassurance about continuity.” One of the panelists, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), said: “What the Breitbart crowd would call the ‘Deep State’ is what many of us would call ‘knowledgeable professionals.’” The panel’s uniform message was essentially: Ignore Donald Trump and increase your defense budget to 2 percent, because the generals who are ‘operationalizing policy’ remain in charge.
When you owe the world $18 trillion, the only way to get them to “pay 2 percent for defense” is to manufacture a boogeyman. Russian novelist and pacifist Leo Tolstoy observed: “There is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people.”
ON THIS DAY: March 8, 2018
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