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According to Stuart Rojstaczer, a geology professor at Duke University, and inventor of the Rank Your College website, college rankings are just a scam—and rankyourcollege.com is no more arbitrary than any other ranking...
...introduced to the bulldozers shortly after the Brooklyn Dodgers bolted for Los Angeles in 1957, leaving behind a less-than-spectacular apartment building and a million broken hearts. Brooklyn had loved its baseball team’s players, certainly—champions like Jackie Robinson, Pee-Wee Reese and Duke Snider as well as the more comical figures of earlier, more futile years...
...Wagner mentioned that he had an offer on the table from power generators, including the "Big Five" - AES/Williams, Duke, Dynegy, Mirant and Reliant - for oh, $700 million, which clearly did not satisfy the California people. But perhaps for the front page, Wagner shrugged and took a more generous guess: Maybe a refund to the state of perhaps $1 billion was due, but there was the matter of the utilities' unpaid bills...
...Dynegy, Duke and Mirant averaged...
...lifelong white person, I would normally be reluctant to parse anyone's use, aside from David Duke's, of what my people now refer to as "the N word." But since I'm being paid to grapple with the subject, I would wager that Rock is making a point about how street culture celebrates boorish behavior, and how that can feed racist stereotypes, and how dispiriting that is. As with all great comedians--which is to say, as with all original thinkers--Rock's insights are beyond tidy labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing...