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Confirmation bias has largely replaced critical thinking skills. I know a lot of people want to de-emphasize a college education as not justified based on the return on the investment. But of all the things I learned in college, the skill of being able to think critically is the one most responsible for any success I’ve had. The ability, through social media, to find large groups of people who support pretty much any position, no matter how stupid, and to bring withering criticism to bear on any contrasting viewpoint, stifles honest debate. It makes us, collectively, dumber.

I didn't try to sign up for a class, but now that I'm retired, I keep asking my wife if certain things will work and she tells me "trial and error is the best cooking method". I told her it's the ONLY method when I do it, lol.

Well....that was what I was accused of. Honest to God, though, I just wanted to learn how to cook.

Wheeler hires Rob Kania

We need officials. LOVE it. Just don't bite your nails.

ICYMI - Zirkelbach and Central High School have chosen to hire Mary Deig as the first female Assistant Football Coach in Evansville. Mary has been helping with the Reitz football program for years and is well known on the west side. Good for her!

Probably not.

No. 2 dollars a month, maybe.

Speaking of college, this was recently part of a Frankfort High School daily newsletter: And this particular company has recently advertised it's looking for experienced plumbers, compensation for them up to $100,000 dollars a year. Sorry, I don't see how your average English or Library Sciences degree from a traditional 4-year college can compete.

I started reading this site in 2000-2001 when I was a 18/19 year old freshmen at Ball State. I'm now a fat, old, weak, and dumb 39 year divorced single dad raising 2 sons on my own. It's not that I don't love the debates and reading the information, my attention has changed. I also don't fire of a response like I did when I was younger. I read things, raise my eyebrows, and move on.

Biden’s EO establishing a commission to “study” Supreme Court “reform” provided the study was to be completed within 180 days. So, the report ought to come out right about the first Monday in October. Coincidence?

Not necessarily. You’re already on the GID. The idea is to drive FB users to the GID, not vice versa.

The GID isn't product and never has been.

I think the GID could make more effective use of its Facebook page. Facebook “sharing” would be a relatively easy way to drive guest traffic to the GID.

OK 1. Go for it, that goes for anyone, anyone can participate at that level if they choose to 2. Love it (would also be open for somone to take that lead on a volunteer level) I know at one time a few years ago, I contacted local universities looking for jounalism majors looking to get writing and reporting experience, came up empty 3. Again, Love it HOWEVER, one could also say that in every part of the state, local print publications have also declined in these type of pieces 4. Already have its location, yearly, again, other than the Hoosier Conference, that takes an individual willing to lead the way and VOLUNTEER their time to conduct said pickems. 5. I will attempt to establish that in 2021 I love all of those thoughts @DT this has been site made by a coach, currently ran by a couple of coaches on the day to day with the tech owners in the background, if you remember, Coach Adams ended up giving up coaching full time to go out and do many of those things you mentioned above, I cannot speak for others on the "leadership" team, but for myself, I do not, or will not have any sort of time to committ to those items above you mention. I do appreciate your thoughts, and equally appreciate your resistentance to go to the "pay" model for content

https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/the-truth-about-racism-cops-devine/ Who would want to be a cop in America? It’s open season on anyone who wears a badge, so no wonder recruitment is down, retirements are up and the streets grow ever more violent. By swallowing the false narrative of systemic racism, we have demonized and criminalized police while turning criminals into civil-rights martyrs. This won’t end well. By all accounts, the police shooting of a black man, Daunte Wright, Sunday during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center was a stupid, horrible accident. But it’s not racism. The fact that it happened just 10 miles from where a former police officer, Derek Chauvin, is standing trial for the killing of George Floyd just makes the calamity unfathomably worse. The threat of extreme violence if Chauvin is acquitted already had the country on tenterhooks. But Wright’s death ensured the riots and looting came early. You would think, at such a time, that our nation’s leaders would find a way of lowering the temperature. But no. Former President Barack Obama, who could wield more influence for good than anyone, did the worst possible thing. Instead of using the opportunity to teach young men not to resist arrest, he fanned the flames of fear by falsely asserting that Wright’s death was racially motivated. It was “yet another shooting of a Black man . . . at the hands of police.” It showed “just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country.” Yeah, well, we’ve been reimagining police for almost a year and the result is soaring crime, with black neighborhoods the worst hit. Democratic US Rep. Rashida Tlaib fanned the flames further. She tweeted that Wright’s shooting “wasn’t an accident. Policing in this country is inherently and intentionally racist . . . No more policing incarceration and militarization. It can’t be reformed.” So says the woman whose workplace is surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by thousands of police and military. These are the facts: This year to April 12, 52 black people were fatally shot by police, just three of whom were unarmed, and 109 white people suffered the same fate, five of whom were unarmed, according to a Washington Post database. Yet the media and allied activists only scream when police kill a black person. This leads to a distorted understanding of the problem, as a February survey by the Skeptic Research Center found. The majority of Americans, especially liberals, wildly overestimates the number of unarmed black men killed by police. For instance, 53.5 percent of those reporting “very liberal” political views estimated the number to be 1,000 or more deaths in 2019, when the actual number of unarmed black men fatally shot by police was 12. A lot of the media is invested in this false narrative and will not let it go, no matter how much mayhem it unleashes. For instance, before he resigned, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon gave a press conference in which he mentioned the riots the previous night, and was shouted down by activists posing as reporters. “Don’t do that,” they scolded him. “There was no riot.” “There was,” he replied. “An officer was injured, hit on the head with a brick [and] was transported to the hospital.” Gannon was trying to be upfront when he released Potter’s bodycam footage and said she had mistaken her gun for her Taser. But the media was only interested in reinforcing their racism narrative. Wright was “driving while black” was a favorite headline. A Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist wrote that Wright was pulled over because he had air freshener dangling from his mirror. Still shots from the bodycam video show no air freshener existed from the start to the end of the police interaction. Pulling Wright over wasn’t racist. He was driving with expired license plate tags. Arresting him wasn’t racist. He had an open warrant related to an armed robbery case in which he allegedly choked a woman and threatened to shoot her. Wright should not have died, but racism had nothing to do with it. When he resisted arrest, jumped back in his car and attempted to escape, police had good reason to try to stop him. Kimberly Potter, the officer who shot Wright, clearly intended to tase him and not shoot him with her gun. The video shows her calling out, “Taser! Taser! Taser!” before firing. She was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter. Due process is being followed. But the mob that showed up at her house baying for blood demands a different sort of justice, which the cowardly city council won’t refuse. The council fired Brooklyn Center City Manager Curt Boganey on Monday because he said Potter should not be hung, drawn and quartered by the mob, but deserved “due process.” Councilmember Chris Lawrence Anderson admitted she voted to fire Boganey for fear of reprisals from the mob. “He was doing a great job,” she told the Star Tribune. “I didn’t want repercussions at a personal level.” Of course, neither Floyd nor Wright deserved to die. It is a tragedy for everyone involved. But it’s worth noting that before their fatal encounters with police, both men had been charged over crimes involving aggravated violence to women. Floyd served five years in jail after entering a woman’s home and pressing a gun into her stomach during a robbery. The two victims called the police because that’s what we do when a crime occurs. Police are the thin blue line between violent criminals who take what they want from the weak. Yet now people protected by wealth or the security apparatus of the state are telling those victims that they are on their own. A world without law and order is a very scary place. No one knows that better than the migrants streaming over the southern border. They’re escaping from countries where the rule of law is a joke, but they haven’t yet figured out we’re on the same lawless trajectory. Well stated. Neither Mr. Floyd or Mr. Wright "deserved" to die, but blaming it on "racism" is flat wrong

Chris is also in violation of several personal protective standards if that box is "live". If he's working for a reputable Electrical company, he should be fired immediately.

Court-Packing Bill Is an Attempt to Intimidate Sitting Supreme Court Justices https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/court-packing-bill-is-an-attempt-to-intimidate-sitting-supreme-court-justices/ Mr. McConnell is correct.