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Participating in a single-elimination tournament should be an earned privilege, not a right.

It is "Let's get this over with so the media can concentrate on Indiana Basketball".

State Law.

To me it seemed like the IHSAA just threw in the towel and said "we give up, just let everyone in" in response to the disaster known as the cluster system.

More Jones Act madness: https://reason.com/2022/10/19/somebody-in-the-shipping-industry-wants-opponents-of-the-jones-act-charged-with-treason/ It should be obvious that it is not "treason" to advocate that lawmakers, using the democratic process, strike down an old law that protects a handful of special interests at the expense of the larger American public. That this would even appear in a list of recommendations from a government advisory committee, whether serious or not, is a red flag about who that agency serves. Haley Byrd Wilt over at The Dispatch got the scoop on the story but was unable to get any information about where the treason recommendation came from. She did note that it was not included in the committee's final list of recommendations that year. People Byrd Wilt spoke to from the subcommittee either didn't remember the recommendation or theorized it was a joke. Scott Lincicome, director of general economics and of Cato's Herbert A. Steifel Center of Trade Policy Studies, is one of the allegedly treasonous citizens the recommendation targets (he also writes a newsletter for The Dispatch). He tells Reason, "My initial reaction was, and I literally said it out loud, was, 'Holy shit.' Pretty stunning stuff." Lincicome and Colin Grabow, a research fellow with Cato, have a blog post up explaining the background of their pursuit of these documents and a link to the documents themselves. Lincicome tells Reason that more documents will be posted in the next few days. He says that these documents will help further establish how much MARAD has essentially been captured by the maritime industry. It's supposed to be serving as industry oversight. But that's not what Lincicome sees. "There is an established pattern of pro-Jones Act collusion between the maritime industry and the government agency charged with regulating them," Lincicome says. "It's not in any way subtle." He tells Reason that he has documentation showing MARAD officials and representatives from the shipping industry openly discussing in 2020 how to prevent ships that weren't compliant with the Jones Act from getting permission from the federal government to help deliver Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to northeastern states in response to increased demand due to frigid weather conditions. The Jones Act was amended that very year to change the waiver process to make it harder for the federal government to grant this permission, even during emergencies (except for military emergencies). The absurd "treason" allegation is salacious, Lincicome says, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. The fact that this would be included in a list of recommendations intended to be treated seriously by the federal government is a symptom of a much deeper problem. "This is the industry and the agency that regulates it working hand and glove together to squelch criticism of the law," he says. Despicable.

https://reason.com/2022/10/19/btss-military-conscription-is-a-reminder-that-mandatory-service-is-servitude/ Agreed. Mandatory military service needs to end worldwide, as does our lame Selective Service system.

Carroll Cougars FTW.

Kokomo Wildkats FTW.

No, no desire at all. I just answered your question.

The answer is 3.66. Or 42. Take your pick.

Of course the algorithms would be different, Chief. I never claimed otherwise. But both are problems that can effectively be solved by a computer. Who is going to step in when the fisticuffs start? Or is that a give part of this seeding process?

Not really. It all really just boils down to math. And that's is really all a computer is, a very fast machine that is good at manipulating zeroes and ones.

If a computer can now "solve" the game of Chess it can rank a few high school football games.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-shame-of-notre-dame/ University public-relations and legal teams have so far failed to reply to the Rover’s repeated inquiries. Meanwhile, a Notre Dame Law School alumnus who goes by “Eudaimonia” on Twitter reported on an upcoming panel at his alma mater. Held under the auspices of the LGBT Law Forum, the panel is titled “Decriminalizing Sex Work,” and one of the featured speakers is described as a “law-student sex worker.” What the hell is going on at Notre Dame? The short answer is that large swaths of the faculty and administration have traded in the university’s Catholic identity and mission for the pottage of liberal acceptance and prestige. Father John Jenkins, the university’s president, exemplifies the pusillanimity and self-abasement of Notre Dame leaders. In 2009, Jenkins honored the newly elected President Barack Obama, a champion of the culture of death. In 2016, he bestowed American Catholicism’s highest honor, the Laetare Medal, on then-Vice President Joe Biden, another abortion supporter. Hope the liberal head-pats are worth it, Father! The deeper answer has to do with the generational crisis in Catholic education. In 1967, leading Catholic educators—including then-Notre Dame President Theodore M. Hesburgh—declared themselves free of “authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself,” in what became known as the Land O’Lakes Statement (the position paper was adopted at a gathering in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin). This bold casting off of authority ran utterly contrary to the ancient precepts of the Catholic university. Formerly, Catholic education drew on the classical tradition, which held that the educator’s role is to help students learn to love what is lovable and contemn what is hateful or wrong. And it recognized the special role of the Church as humankind’s divinely ordained guide in this regard. Free inquiry and free speech, in this telling, weren’t absolute masters, but servants that had to be carefully restrained to yield good work. The Land O’Lakes signatories sought to unshackle themselves from these precepts, and behold what they wrought. At many Catholic universities, including increasingly at Notre Dame, the “liberal arts” mirror the narrow specialization, technocratic blandness, and haphazard quality of their secular counterparts. Not to mention the moral degradation. In response to all this, an older generation of Catholic academics, including not a few hopelessly timid conservatives at Notre Dame, insist that more free speech and more free inquiry are the answer, as if that weren’t what brought us to the current nadir. But young, orthodox Catholics are increasingly seeing through the academic-freedom ruse, and demanding something more. As DeReuil, the Rover editor-in-chief, wrote in an editorial last week: The present at Notre Dame is utterly bleak. But the next generation bears hope. Sad to see such a great institution go woke...............

Details, please. What does Crawfordsville possess that Frankfort does not?

Kokomo Wildkats Carroll Cougars

https://mises.org/power-market/alex-jones-verdict-shows-danger-defamation-laws The Jones case is known and notable partly because he has the means to mount a sizable legal defense. Unpopular people of lesser means will fare even more poorly, and will much more easily and quickly be threatened into silence. The answer to all this is total free speech in which people are explicitly expected to come to their own conclusions and be responsible for their own actions. As Rothbard noted: in a system of unrestricted free speech, "everyone would know that false stories are legal, there would be far more skepticism on the part of the reading or listening public, who would insist on far more proof and believe fewer derogatory stories than they do now." Agreed. Mr. Jones made statements that are reprehensible and false, but that is not a crime.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secede-oregon-greater-idaho-ballot-two-conservative-counties Good. I hope the people of Eastern Oregon succeed in this endeavor.

https://www.cato.org/white-paper/fiscal-policy-report-card-americas-governors-2022 Mr. Holcomb and Indiana get a "C":

The Regime Debanks Kanye West: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-regime-debanks-kanye-west/ More: Live Not By Lies came out in paperback yesterday. I've you've put off reading it, now's the time. Here is a link to a free, downloadable study guide. You and/or your group will find that helpful. The things I was predicting in 2020, when the book was first published, are now coming true. We are not going to have forever to prepare. Normal people find it so difficult to imagine this stuff happening in America. But it is! At the Lutheran pastors' conference I was at earlier this week, I gave a LNBL talk. Afterwards, a pastor came up to me in the hallway and said that he thought maybe I was exaggerating about Central Bank Digital Currencies -- it sounds paranoid, I know -- but he googled information about it, and discovered that Joe Biden issued an executive order pushing them. Things people never imagined would happen in America are happening right now, every day. In Michigan this week, I learned that Prop 3, the pro-abortion constitutional amendment on the ballot this November, carries within it something devastating. From The Federalist: Take a look at this compelling video the Lutherans of Michigan have made to educate voters about what Prop 3 means: Auron Macintyre is right: De-banking people, making it harder for them to buy and sell. Passing laws that eliminate parental authority when minors want to chemically or surgically alter their bodies for reasons of gender ideology. This is our country now. We are Babylon. Why are so many of us so damn passive in the face of this evil? Iain McGilchrist talked on a podcast the other day about how the King of England's ambassador to the Netherlands wrote long, detailed letters back to London, describing Puritan mobs rampaging through cities, smashing statues, burning books, and so forth. McGilchrist said the oddest thing is that these radicals were relatively small in number -- but the streets were lined with spectators who far outnumbered the vandals, who simply watched passively. That's us, you know. Anyway, for those who want to have a clue about how to live with resilience and integrity through the trials to come, I hope you will consider reading Live Not By Lies -- and then coming together with your local friends, and making plans. I was texting earlier today with a friend in Poland, who told me that he and his friends are starting to do so, in anticipation of civil unrest there. "Because you're worried about people taking to the streets this winter because they're tired of being cold and hungry?" I asked. Yes, he said. "When it unravels in the West," he added, "it will go fast."

Texas Roofer Arrested in Florida for Helping Hurricane Victims https://reason.com/2022/10/12/texas-roofer-arrested-in-florida-for-helping-hurricane-victims/ Yes, when it comes to inefficient, unyielding government bureaucracy no good dead truly goes unpunished. Sickening....................

Go Braves.

https://mises.org/wire/thanks-fed-youll-work-more-year-keep-last-years-standard-living CBS also reports: This certainly all makes sense considering that price inflation in August soared 8.3 percent, and growth in average earnings did not keep up. This is the "American dream" the Fed has given us: work more jobs and longer hours to keep paying those bills that are now growing at 8 percent per year. Not surprisingly, real disposable personal income continues to fall. From data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we find that real disposable personal income was down by 4.4 percent in August, year over year. Growth has been negative since December of 2021, and it is well off trend since that time, and disposable income has gone nowhere since early 2020: The personal savings rate has also cratered, falling to 3.5 percent, which is the lowest measured since 2008, when the US was in recession. The state of the economy is this: we have one lagging indicator (employment) suggesting that things are going well. Meanwhile, savings are falling, disposable income is falling, and real wages as going down as well. Moreover, a recession in coming months is virtually assured according to indicators from the yield curve and the money supply. Money supply growth has plummeted in recent months strongly suggesting a recession is soon to come. The yield curve has also inverted, and this has always been followed by a recession in recent decades. Slowing in the market nevertheless has started to become more apparent in recent weeks. Job openings in August1while still at high levels—fell to a 14-month low in August. Earlier this month, Facebook parent Meta announced a hiring freeze. Overall, tech sector payoffs have continued to mount, with other sectors feeling the pinch as well. Peloton, Spotify, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo have announced layoffs in recent weeks. The usual late-boom prohibition on admitting a recession is coming appears to have finally disappeared as well. Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase now predicts a recession by mid 2023. It looks like, outside of retail and hospitality, strong job growth is already over for this cycle. The US economy is finally experiencing what was already in the cards in late 2019 as numerous indicators pointing toward a brewing recession. This, however, was staved off by the massive amounts of money printing that came with the covid lockdowns and the 18 months of extreme monetary stimulus that followed. Now, instead of just a recession, we have a brewing recession plus 40-year highs in price inflation. The only good news in all of this is that the Fed appears to have gotten the message—for now—that inflation is entrenched, strong, and isn't going away without a sizable amount of monetary tightening. The Fed is the cause of all this, of course, and the only way out now is to pop the bubbles the Fed created. Wall Street hates to hear this, and that's why the markets went down in the wake of last week's "strong" employment report. The fact that job growth still hasn't tanked tells the Fed that it still hasn't done enough to end the inflationary boom it created. Wall Street is now addicted to easy money, and that's what drives the market—not productivity or market fundamentals. Unfortunately for the rest of us, history suggests that anything other than sky-high interest rates and quantitative tightening is unlikely to bring a quick end to price inflation. The Fed's slow and steady policy of allowing interest rates to rise is likely to require several years to bring inflation under control. In the meantime, we're therefore looking at years of elevated inflation and economic malaise. More proof that MMT is an abject failure.

A picture Dad Joke for today:

NCC: The Conference of Champions Is this basically the same "wing-t in a phone booth" offense that the elder Mr. Colby ran during his stint at Frankfort?