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RE: NCAA President has suggested changing the setup of NCAA governance
(03-31-2012 01:39 PM)joe4psu Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 11:51 AM)JRsec Wrote:  My point is this. Look at the list of leading contributors to the the Romney, Obama, Bush, Gore, and McCain campaigns and who do you find? You guessed it. Throw in Microsoft (NBC), Disney (ABC/ESPN), Time Warner and Fox and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that we are no longer "a government of the people, for the people, and by the people". We are instead a government subsidized of the corporation, for the corporation, and by the corporation. Our information comes from the corporation, and very soon, now that private business is dying and incentives for individual wealth development are drying up, our schools will become indoctrination centers for the corporate way. Sports revenue may be our final revenue stream to preserve academic freedom. Who would ever have dreamed that?

I think this is the second time I've seen you write something like this. It just makes no sense to me. While I agree with a lot of what you have to say, universities are about as far from havens of capitalism as you can get. Crony capitalism may be the danger you point out but is it really infesting universities?

It sure did a number on journalism in America and the Media Industry. When that corporate mentality seeps down from the upper echelon, where it inherently is going to reside, down through the ranks it then becomes the way you think or else you are removed as the outsider.

It may seem odd now that such could be the mentality in the future but if you go back a few years and told them the sorry state of investigative journalism in America today, I bet many wouldn't believe you.
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(03-31-2012 02:15 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 01:39 PM)joe4psu Wrote:  I think this is the second time I've seen you write something like this. It just makes no sense to me. While I agree with a lot of what you have to say, universities are about as far from havens of capitalism as you can get. Crony capitalism may be the danger you point out but is it really infesting universities?

It sure did a number on journalism in America and the Media Industry. When that corporate mentality seeps down from the upper echelon, where it inherently is going to reside, down through the ranks it then becomes the way you think or else you are removed as the outsider.

It may seem odd now that such could be the mentality in the future but if you go back a few years and told them the sorry state of investigative journalism in America today, I bet many wouldn't believe you.

Which is odd because the media is another area that doesn't seem like a capitalist fan club. Though I guess that depends on the media source and the capitalist.

As intertwined as the political parties, or politicians, and corporations may be I don't think there has been a change in the tone toward the parties and politicians. It appears from the outside to be the same media as before. I don't get ANY newspapers anymore but running from 817 on my tv dial to 820 will take me through CNN, MSNBC and FNC. Not to mention CNBC and, if you jump to 821, FBN. I have not noticed a change in coverage amongst them. They seem to be who they are.

What am I missing?
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(03-31-2012 01:34 PM)omniorange Wrote:  
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(03-31-2012 11:40 AM)omniorange Wrote:  While I agree that change is unlikely to March Madness, I do believe the power conferences want to see change in basketball altogether to make the regular season more meaningful. Not sure how that could be accomplished.

First thing you could do to make the basketball regular season more meaningful is to change the autobid rules so that every conference's autobid goes to the regular-season champion. Conferences could still play conference tournaments if they so choose, but no bid would be guaranteed to a conference tournament winner.

If you do that, the regular season is a lot more meaningful, and you no longer have to worry about "lucky" conference tournament winners taking NCAA bids away from more deserving at-large candidates.

Not sure how that resolves the issue of making the regular season more meaningful to the power conferences though, since every major conference gets multiple bids in as it is. The only way I see the regular season becoming more meaningful is to combine this with a reduction of the number teams allowed into the big Dance. But I don't see that happening.

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I agree that I don't see it happening because ESPN likes the ready-made and relatively cheap programming they get out of 20-plus conference tournaments. Cheap, manufactured drama.

If it did happen, though, and the conference tournaments went away, it would make the regular season more meaningful even in the top conferences because teams' seeding in the NCAA tournament would be dependent on their regular season performance only. Teams like 2011 UConn and 2012 Louisville couldn't use a conference tournament run to get better NCAA tournament seeds after an underachieving regular season. If you really want to make regular season games count, pull the plug on the conference tournaments.
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(03-31-2012 02:43 PM)Wedge Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 01:34 PM)omniorange Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 01:00 PM)Wedge Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 11:40 AM)omniorange Wrote:  While I agree that change is unlikely to March Madness, I do believe the power conferences want to see change in basketball altogether to make the regular season more meaningful. Not sure how that could be accomplished.

First thing you could do to make the basketball regular season more meaningful is to change the autobid rules so that every conference's autobid goes to the regular-season champion. Conferences could still play conference tournaments if they so choose, but no bid would be guaranteed to a conference tournament winner.

If you do that, the regular season is a lot more meaningful, and you no longer have to worry about "lucky" conference tournament winners taking NCAA bids away from more deserving at-large candidates.

Not sure how that resolves the issue of making the regular season more meaningful to the power conferences though, since every major conference gets multiple bids in as it is. The only way I see the regular season becoming more meaningful is to combine this with a reduction of the number teams allowed into the big Dance. But I don't see that happening.

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I agree that I don't see it happening because ESPN likes the ready-made and relatively cheap programming they get out of 20-plus conference tournaments. Cheap, manufactured drama.

If it did happen, though, and the conference tournaments went away, it would make the regular season more meaningful even in the top conferences because teams' seeding in the NCAA tournament would be dependent on their regular season performance only. Teams like 2011 UConn and 2012 Louisville couldn't use a conference tournament run to get better NCAA tournament seeds after an underachieving regular season. If you really want to make regular season games count, pull the plug on the conference tournaments.

Well that's a different proposal than the one I was responding to. 03-wink

That actually has some merit.

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(03-31-2012 02:34 PM)joe4psu Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 02:15 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 01:39 PM)joe4psu Wrote:  I think this is the second time I've seen you write something like this. It just makes no sense to me. While I agree with a lot of what you have to say, universities are about as far from havens of capitalism as you can get. Crony capitalism may be the danger you point out but is it really infesting universities?

It sure did a number on journalism in America and the Media Industry. When that corporate mentality seeps down from the upper echelon, where it inherently is going to reside, down through the ranks it then becomes the way you think or else you are removed as the outsider.

It may seem odd now that such could be the mentality in the future but if you go back a few years and told them the sorry state of investigative journalism in America today, I bet many wouldn't believe you.

Which is odd because the media is another area that doesn't seem like a capitalist fan club. Though I guess that depends on the media source and the capitalist.

As intertwined as the political parties, or politicians, and corporations may be I don't think there has been a change in the tone toward the parties and politicians. It appears from the outside to be the same media as before. I don't get ANY newspapers anymore but running from 817 on my tv dial to 820 will take me through CNN, MSNBC and FNC. Not to mention CNBC and, if you jump to 821, FBN. I have not noticed a change in coverage amongst them. They seem to be who they are.

What am I missing?

I guess we have a pretty large difference of opinion then. Back in the day when investigative journalism was very real would you have said that CBS was the conservative talking points and NBC was the liberal talking points?

Divide and conquer. If you get people divided into their little groups you control then what opinions are knowledge are imparted to those individual groups. It entrains people to want the drama of politics rather then the actual nuts and bolts of what is going on, which is what true investigative journalism gives you. Simply finding new and inventive ways to "attack the other side" does not qualify as investigative journalism. It is simply corporate funded drama.
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(03-31-2012 09:56 AM)cyc46 Wrote:  If they break away they risk their tax exempt status. Once you break away to chase the bank, the IRS will definitely take notice.

They could easily create a new organization that would run things tax-free. After all, they are public institutions or non-profit private institutions.

But the NCAA needs the power schools to survive. They go and the NCAA is left holding the bag on college athletics. Everyone but the power schools might as well drop athletic scholarships and go to a DII or DIII model because there isn't going to be enough interest to keep those athletic departments flush with cash.

Add to that the fact that there aren't enough schools not in the non-AQ conferences to create yet another division of D1. If the power conferences go to 5 16-team superconferences before a breakaway, that only leaves 44 teams in D1 FBS behind. That's not enough to run a separate subdivision. So you either condemn them to FCS, which most won't stand for, or eliminate FCS altogether. Either way, those other programs might as well just go ahead and shutter their major league dreams.
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Breaking away is a cute threat but it way too messy logistically to actually follow through with and creating a separate division between have's and have-not's has similar issues. Money and power will be re-routed while maintaining an almost identical structure to what we have now.
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(03-31-2012 09:56 AM)cyc46 Wrote:  If they break away they risk their tax exempt status. Once you break away to chase the bank, the IRS will definitely take notice.

That horse has been beat to death and is not about to happen.
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(03-31-2012 01:39 PM)joe4psu Wrote:  
(03-31-2012 11:51 AM)JRsec Wrote:  My point is this. Look at the list of leading contributors to the the Romney, Obama, Bush, Gore, and McCain campaigns and who do you find? You guessed it. Throw in Microsoft (NBC), Disney (ABC/ESPN), Time Warner and Fox and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that we are no longer "a government of the people, for the people, and by the people". We are instead a government subsidized of the corporation, for the corporation, and by the corporation. Our information comes from the corporation, and very soon, now that private business is dying and incentives for individual wealth development are drying up, our schools will become indoctrination centers for the corporate way. Sports revenue may be our final revenue stream to preserve academic freedom. Who would ever have dreamed that?

I think this is the second time I've seen you write something like this. It just makes no sense to me. While I agree with a lot of what you have to say, universities are about as far from havens of capitalism as you can get. Crony capitalism may be the danger you point out but is it really infesting universities?

I understand your point of view and do not take offense at your questioning of mine. I understand because what you say now is what I once said and believed.

When I received my undergraduate education original thought was prized. Our biggest fear was inadvertent plagerism. Back in those days you not only had to cite quotations, but the idea itself. We learned the classics, they were part of Western Civilization if not literature class. We studied philosophy and logic to gain tools for critical thinking. It was a challenge, but it was fun, and liberating. I suppose the most influencial teacher I ever had taught me Rhetorical Analysis. I never knew her political leanings, nor did the other students. We never knew them because in a free society you could think what you wanted as long as you could back it up, or explain it. So she taught us how to glean the substance of an article and relate it to our paradigm and to think through its impact upon our world. So citing an idea was crucial.

Twenty plus years later I enter a prestigious school for masters work. The first thing I decide to do is to attend a free writing tutorial to catch up on MLA and the modern way of citing sources, etc. There are over 100 students in this tutorial, all of them entering Masters programs in communications fields. They were from some of the finest Universities in the East, the North, and the South. It turns out the class was not for the finer points of publishing works and the current etiquette of style, but rather for grammar, sentence structure, etc. This was the coldest pail of water ever thrown in my face as to the state of education in this country.

We were asked to write a three paragraph introduction of ourselves and to state our goals. The next session began with four of us being singled out to see the instructor. I thought I had really blundered. She wanted us to help her with the other students and to proof their work. The four of us had only one thing in common, it wasn't race, it wasn't gender, and I doubt it was politics, it was age. The rest of the class had received their degrees from those prestigious universities after the mid 1980's. When I proofed, and then graded, over two dozen of their papers I found sentence fragments, comma splices, incomplete thoughts, no concept of paragraph formation, much of the stuff I still see on post sites (Not that laziness can't produce the same errant qualities in me, just ask Bitcruncher. I was embarrased by, but glad of, his remonstrance of the same.). But in the next three months I learned how far behind the American education system had fallen. Remember, these are top candidates from large prestigious schools representing a cross section of three regions in education who are now in a Masters program in communications. They are not just employees of corporations looking for an easy MBA at a branch college. I couldn't understand why or how it had happened.

In the three years that followed I learned another change had taken place since my last academic experience. No longer were you rewarded for stating your thought and supporting it. A's were handed out to those who parroted back the lectures of the professor. A's were handed out to those who never cited an unoriginal idea and essentially plagerized their whole answer, or paper. When I started using their buzz words with my nuance of meaning the graders, seldom the professors, never noticed that I was utilizing their words with my meaning. I graduated in the top three of my class at a school where I should have been midrange. Lesson in political correctness learned. No wonder we have fallen behind so many other countries in math, science, engineering, and innovation.

Five or six years later I'm in a friendly discussion with a CEO who is providing some terrific support for a local university's computer science studies. I asked him if he was able to procure some of the best students from that program for his very large and influential international banking corporation. He said, "We don't want the best students." I naturally asked, "Why not?" He replied that they proved to be too much of a liability explaining that the more intelligent students were the more successful thieves. I had an answer. Time, and time again I found similar ideas being expressed in different companies and for slightly different reasons, but all representing essentially the same vein of thought.

Corporations want access to intellectual property from the brightest minds. Grant money gives them that access. But, they want their workers only to be bright enough to be dependable followers. They look to the Ivy's and a handful of public and private institutions for bright idea people. They seldom keep them in their structure very long. They can threaten to climb the access ladder if they know too much. Those in power above do what all people in power do, they seek to hold onto it.

The old Chinese three part curse is very applicable. 1. May you live in interesting times. (Normal is never interesting.) 2. May every desire of your heart come true. (People seldom desire what is best for them.) and 3. May those in authority take notice of you. (It never ends well.)

The result has been an environment in which no idea but the idea of the CEO, or his think tank, can be allowed to be expressed. To do so is to undermine the company. All competition affects the bottom line. (In capitalism competition always illuminates our flaws and does so by taking our business away. In capitalism competition is a good and healthy thing.) We must buy out, and break down our competition (mergers and acquisitions). Eliminate our competition (hire their brain trust, influence their labor, create a price war, use undue political and economic influence, whatever it takes). In capitalism the free market is respected and the ends do not justify the means. But in the coporate world we must pace our innovations to maximize profit (which prima facia is not a terrible concept, but it also involves planned obsolesence which is unethical and suppression of patents that represent breakthroughs in development, the latter is accomplished through frivolous suits that exhaust the inventors resources). Finally if all else fails use your undue influence over the finances of politicians to achieve your ends. Too big to fail is not free market capitalism. It is its antithesis.

Joe, we are witnessing the destruction of capitalism and the free market and our enemies are not the socialists who permeated academia in the 40's and 50's. Those guys are "the phantom menace" bolstered in our thinking for 50 years to keep us from seeing the enemy within.

Eisenhower said the greatest threat to American democracy was the rise of the military industrial complex. The corporations comprising that industry are likely part of the threat, but not because of what they produce, but how they are structured. Corporations have the same rights essentially as citizens, although that is now beginning to be challenged in some courts. But, they don't have the obligation of citizens, not to country, not to taxes, not to law, not to treaties (although they use them to circumvent constitutional issues), and certianly not to each other or us. Rights without obligation is a form of tyranny.

We have a great country. We have the right to be liberal, or conservative, and to think anyway we choose, but we have the obligation to respect those same qualities in others, and to serve if necessary to protect the rights of those who disagree with us. We don't have the right to silence them, disenfranchise them, neglect them, or destroy them. We once called that crime.

When our universities take corporate money they open themselves to all of these abuses and recent and distant history has already shown that what can happen will happen.

The problem is insidious because while the coporations are not people, people comprise the corporations. The enemy is the structure, not our neighbor who works in that structure. When the structure is then appropriated by those who either feel no, nor desire any, obligations toward others it becomes a vehicle for the avoidance of moral law, if not civil law.

The solution is to enforce the obligations individuals have in our society upon the nature of corporations. Now that the genie is out of the bottle that will be difficult to do. I've never said, or will say, destroy the corporations we need some large companies with the means of handling international trade, we just need them working for us, as well as for themselves. With moral obligations in place for corporations the free market will return.

I hope you understand my views a bit better now, and understand why I hold them. JR
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(04-06-2012 11:06 AM)JRsec Wrote:  The old Chinese three part curse is very applicable. 1. May you live in interesting times. (Normal is never interesting.) 2. May every desire of your heart come true. (People seldom desire what is best for them.) and 3. May those in authority take notice of you. (It never ends well.)
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(04-06-2012 12:01 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  
(04-06-2012 11:06 AM)JRsec Wrote:  The old Chinese three part curse is very applicable. 1. May you live in interesting times. (Normal is never interesting.) 2. May every desire of your heart come true. (People seldom desire what is best for them.) and 3. May those in authority take notice of you. (It never ends well.)
A man after my own heart. I'm into eastern philosophies...

Aristotle, Taoism, and Christianity are a very interesting mix to contrast and compare and perhaps the best bridge for a western mind to enter into Eastern philosophies. It's where we've been and who we've come from, how we've misapplied it, where they have been and who they have come from, and how they have misapplied it, and perhaps our best way not to repeat the mistakes of the past together.

Without over spiritualizing it we must master our three components: mind, body, and spirit. But, master it in an Eastern understanding of the term, harmony. Aristotle teaches balance between them for strength and integrity in its truest sense. Christianity, before the church age, implied a harmony in moral terms. It was man through church who made it acetic, or libertine, in practice and always disciplined one more than the other while abusing the more subtle aspects of discipline. And, it is the Taoist who understands human failure and the suffering it brings and seeks harmony (or what we might term as the peace of healing) in the unity of the three. There is indeed quite a bit to be learned here. JR
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Everything in moderation is the key, JR. You know what they say about the Road of Excess...
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(04-06-2012 01:00 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Everything in moderation is the key, JR. You know what they say about the Road of Excess...

I understand what you mean, but be careful of everything in moderation. Much of life is only doable whole hog. You can't steal in moderation, you can't kill in moderation, you can't commit adultery in moderation, you can't lie in moderation, it's even hard to swear in moderation. And for many too many young people trying substances, you can't do those in moderation, safely, either. Some of those can kill you the first time. But on a more positive take, we shouldn't put moderation on our good will, our love of family, our trustworthiness, our commitment to a cause, or to our zest for life.

Moderation is great for numerable areas of life, but some absolute choices do have to be made. That's why harmony, or balance, is slightly different. Have a good one, JR
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Actually, you can do many of those things in moderation...

An otherwise honest person will steal if they are certain they can get away with it. It may be the only thing they steal in their life. But when the opportunity presented itself, they were unable to resist the temptation...

Killing has been done in moderation throughout history. That's an assassin's job. Had the first assassination attempt of Hitler succeeded, the war in Europe would have ended much sooner. One surgical assassination at the right time can save a lot of misery...

I'll give you adultery. You either go all out, or not at all. There are a few other areas where there are no grey areas. It's either black or white...

But in everything else moderation is best. Too much of anything isn't healthy. That goes for good will, committment to a cause, and zest for life as well. You can get used by people with ulterior motives, jailed for fighting a useless battle, or killed by a joyful impulse...

The way I see it, life is to be lived and enjoyed. All you can do is be the best person you can, and do your part to make the world around you a better place. Treat everyone the way you'd like to be treated, and the rest should take care of itself...

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(04-06-2012 03:31 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Actually, you can do many of those things in moderation...

An otherwise honest person will steal if they are certain they can get away with it. It may be the only thing they steal in their life. But when the opportunity presented itself, they were unable to resist the temptation...

Killing has been done in moderation throughout history. That's an assassin's job. Had the first assassination attempt of Hitler succeeded, the war in Europe would have ended much sooner. One surgical assassination at the right time can save a lot of misery...

I'll give you adultery. You either go all out, or not at all. There are a few other areas where there are no grey areas. It's either black or white...

But in everything else moderation is best. Too much of anything isn't healthy. That goes for good will, committment to a cause, and zest for life as well. You can get used by people with ulterior motives, jailed for fighting a useless battle, or killed by a joyful impulse...

The way I see it, life is to be lived and enjoyed. All you can do is be the best person you can, and do your part to make the world around you a better place. Treat everyone the way you'd like to be treated, and the rest should take care of itself...

I'm a balloon. I'm up in the air, and which ever way the wind blows, I float...

Yes I laughed out loud. I like anybody who knows what they are, has a good idea of who they are, and is honest about it! At least you are a reasonable, happy, realist, and what's more, know it! Take care, JR
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A couple of traumatic brain injuries tend to give you a different perspective...
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(04-06-2012 05:29 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  A couple of traumatic brain injuries tend to give you a different perspective...

Forgive me but that is a pespective I hope to avoid. I have stared down the business end of firearms on two occasions, had my life threatened twice, and learned some things I wish I'd never known, but I'm glad not to have had that kind of trauma.

Just curious, and you don't have to reply, but by your handle I take it you ride. Are the brain injuries associated with that passion? JR
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Chase the dollar, die by the dollar. College sports is quickly becoming a industry that no longer serves the student athlete or the students and community in general, but rather their own self-righteous, self-promoting egos. It's an absolute shame that rivalries are being lost and that the student athlete, students' and communities are being dragged though this. The money chasers in the power conferences are ruining college sports. But I guess that is the college sport purist in me.
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RE: NCAA President has suggested changing the setup of NCAA governance
(04-06-2012 06:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(04-06-2012 05:29 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  A couple of traumatic brain injuries tend to give you a different perspective...
Forgive me but that is a pespective I hope to avoid. I have stared down the business end of firearms on two occasions, had my life threatened twice, and learned some things I wish I'd never known, but I'm glad not to have had that kind of trauma.

Just curious, and you don't have to reply, but by your handle I take it you ride. Are the brain injuries associated with that passion?
JR, my handle came from a science fiction story called Dragon's Egg, about life on a neutron star by Robert L. Forward (bitcruncher was a minor scientist on the neutron star when their civilization collapsed during a starquake)...

I used to ride. But I had to sell my bike. I can't take all the vibration any longer. Between the transplant and the equilibrium difficulties, it's just too much for me to handle...

The brain traumas happened because every once in a while, my heart just stops. Each time it's happened in my life, I've either gotten a concussion or a traumatic brain injury. The last 3 times it happened when I was driving. I was lucky enough to live long enough for the doctors to figure out a pacemaker was all I needed to keep me conscious. But they tried medication first, and it took 10 years for them to figure out that wasn't working. It wasn't exactly Easy Street...
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RE: NCAA President has suggested changing the setup of NCAA governance
(04-07-2012 07:31 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  
(04-06-2012 06:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(04-06-2012 05:29 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  A couple of traumatic brain injuries tend to give you a different perspective...
Forgive me but that is a pespective I hope to avoid. I have stared down the business end of firearms on two occasions, had my life threatened twice, and learned some things I wish I'd never known, but I'm glad not to have had that kind of trauma.

Just curious, and you don't have to reply, but by your handle I take it you ride. Are the brain injuries associated with that passion?
JR, my handle came from a science fiction story called Dragon's Egg, about life on a neutron star by Robert L. Forward (bitcruncher was a minor scientist on the neutron star when their civilization collapsed during a starquake)...

I used to ride. But I had to sell my bike. I can't take all the vibration any longer. Between the transplant and the equilibrium difficulties, it's just too much for me to handle...

The brain traumas happened because every once in a while, my heart just stops. Each time it's happened in my life, I've either gotten a concussion or a traumatic brain injury. The last 3 times it happened when I was driving. I was lucky enough to live long enough for the doctors to figure out a pacemaker was all I needed to keep me conscious. But they tried medication first, and it took 10 years for them to figure out that wasn't working. It wasn't exactly Easy Street...

Thanks for letting me know, I'll keep that in my prayers.

By the way both of my run ins with the business end of handguns were just from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I went to help a woman who was being beaten, I thought mugged, and it turned out to be a drunk boyfried with a gun. I talked him down, left, and called the police. The second was in a parking lot just walking to my car when a woman came by being chased by another woman with a gun. She hid behind me. I had no idea what to do then. The one with the gun shouted some more expletives and left. Both of these were minor on the trauma scale.

The threats against my life, and the things I learned, well that was work on behalf of the disenfranchised. They were major on the trauma scale.

All of that said, I know what you face is far more sobering and less controlable. My first statement of this post is sincere. Considering the circumstances, I marvel a bit more at what I already appreciated in the scope and clarity of your thinking. JR
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