pacino wrote:My friend is a sports doc for HS...the level of care is worse and there's a ton of injuries.

pacino wrote:nearly 2/3 of voters said the economic system is unfair and favors the wealthy.

TenuredVulture wrote:Is it really that dangerous at high school? I mean, there's a difference between a 320 pound monster who can run a 4.9 40 running into a QB and a 150 lb. kid running into another 150 lb. kid. In addition, at the HS level, the season is usually 10 or 12 games.

TenuredVulture wrote:I believe I'm the only person on the board who thinks kids should not participate in organized sports until they reach high school.

Bucky wrote:

pacino wrote:nearly 2/3 of voters said the economic system is unfair and favors the wealthy.

"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

-LBJ

I am well aware that Wendy Davis lost the Texas governor’s race by a wide margin. It’s salt in a very personal wound. Her campaign meant a lot to me, and to so many other Texas women — thousands of whom stood in line for hours to cast their ballots in support. Greg Abbott won anyway, and he won by a lot. But he didn’t win by a lot across the demographic landscape.

I went to the Texas Tribune first for a dissection of the election results, and one piece of information struck me as particularly… wrong. The Tribune cited CNN exit polls to illustrate the landslide, saying Abbott “beat Davis by lopsided margins with white voters (72-27), men (65-34) and women (52-47). Davis beat Abbott among Latinos (57-42) and African-Americans (93-7).” Last time I checked, though, there were thousands upon thousands of women in Texas considered Latina and African-American — what about their votes?

As RH Reality Check’s Andrea Grimes reports, their votes were solidly in Davis’ favor: 94 percent of black women and 61 percent of Latinas voted for her. Only 32 percent of white women did. That’s certainly not enough women to say that Abbott won the whole gender (though that’s a ludicrous statement in the first place). It seems to be enough, though, to result in the erasure of votes from women of color, Grimes notes:

You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried” women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,” and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women.

pacino wrote:The piece is fine.

You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried” women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,” and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women.

pacino wrote:The piece is fine.

Monkeyboy wrote:You get your news at michellemalkin.com? She's vile. Even if everything in the article is true (haven't read it), she has no reason to say anything about anything or anyone.

CalvinBall wrote:Malkin is a disgusting, hateful person. Surprised you read her.

dajafi wrote:Cutting Salon out of my regular reading was probably one of my wiser moves over the last ten years. I'd like to think that they weren't always the collective Marcus Hayes of contemporary liberalism, but who knows.