Muda69

Thin Mints for the win.

Go Patriots. Spencer has a pretty good Mexican restaurant, caddy-cornered from the McDonalds.

Could it be these pictures are just a hoax? Cleverly photoshopped images perpetuated by a disgruntled Clinton Prairie fan/parent?

https://www.avclub.com/rip-jules-bass-animated-holiday-specials-1849702327 Truly an American animation icon. He will be missed. As a child I rarely missed any of his holiday shows and still enjoy them today.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2022/10/24/colts-promote-sam-ehlinger-to-starting-quarterback-replacing-matt-ryan/69587219007/ Good luck to young Mr. Ehlinger. I guess better to have a youngster bear the brunt of an suddenly ineffectual (and highly paid, btw) offensive line than a brittle 37-year old.

Last week when I was Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Was in the first winter storm of the season.

There is enough "big farm money" in the Clinton Prairie district that a lawsuit against the IHSAA for this grave error/misconduct is not out of the question.

That natural grass field looks to be in great shape. I've been told here on the GID that comes playoff time all grass fields are practically unplayable morasses.

Cinderella is indeed a myth. IMHO this game should have never been played: https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/football-wildkats-hammer-hot-dogs-70-6/article_3ab5d5a0-519f-11ed-88be-fb6508cc1e24.html

Student Math and Reading Scores Have Dropped Significantly Since 2019 https://reason.com/2022/10/24/student-math-and-reading-scores-have-dropped-significantly-since-2019/ Overall, "correlation with state-level Covid policies is much weaker than I'd have thought," tweeted Matthew Yglesias. But if you look at just 2021 data, he added, the correlation is stronger. Such results suggest "that Zoom School was bad but also that some states have been much more effective than others in bouncing back," he said. State-level test results also suggest "variation in recovery," according to the Brown University economist Emily Oster. As for the NAEP data, more in-person schooling was generally consistent with less decline in NAEP math scores, wrote Oster. ("Interesting outliers: California, Hawaii.") In reading scores, there was "no relationship; overall smaller losses, as in the state-level data," she tweeted. More failures from our government schools.

Go Kokomo Wildkats.

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.