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At this point, I'm so bored that I'd watch them recreate the Ice Capades.

"Everyone is moving to Seattle. It's the pesto of cities." Or something like that.

It was on "How to Cook That" on Youtube recently. I watched it Wednesday. Can't believe the coincidence of reading it here now.

To me, it comes down to FIFO. Gotta treat the patient who is ill NOW, and hope that the bed frees up for someone who becomes ill later. I have no problem with the idea of St. Josephs taking in patients from Elmhurst. I don't know how they'd get here, though. Were you at Suburban in 2013 by any chance?

It's hyperbole for the sake of humor, but the way my niece (11) and nephew (9) are monitored is scary to me. And the participation trophy thing is real. Also, kids were pushed out of those jobs because of perceived harm, not because they needed extracurriculars for college resumes. Colleges look at jobs as positives. I also go to school with mostly Gen Z ers and until everything shut down, I was living with them. And before that, I was dating one. They definitely do not seem too hard nosed. But that could be my perception because I'm twice their age.

Lexington Co-Op (small grocery around the corner from me) has had those up for a little while now.

Oh, give it time. You should see what the Zoomers are up to. And then there's the generation behind them. I think they have to wear helmets just to solve math problems. I'm with you on the student loan thing, btw. I would have no problem if millennials' loans are forgiven even though mine weren't.

Yeah, but what she did isn't merely dumb.

It has to be a mental health issue, right?

Not what I meant. I don't want a return to the 1920s where kids are working and not going to school. (Only one of my grandparents was able to finish high school.) We used to pay kids to mow lawns, shovel snow or use snowblowers, and deliver newspapers. That doesn't happen anymore. Too dangerous. The kid doesn't learn the value of a buck. We used to give trophies to children's sports teams only when they earned them. That doesn't happen anymore. Too psychologically tragic. The kid doesn't learn that you don't win all the time. We used to let teenagers drink, and we kept an eye on them. That doesn't happen anymore. Too dangerous. Now we ship off kids to college, they find alcohol, and have no way of dealing with it responsibly. Are minors even allowed to open bank accounts anymore without a parent cosigning? I honestly don't know the answer to this one. I had a bank account when I was 13, for the newspaper money. Parents weren't involved and didn't even know I had it until I used an ATM in front of them once. Do schools make kids repeat classes anymore or is that too financially taxing on the school system and/or detrimental to the kid's psyche? I don't know the answer to this one, either. As for the broader statement regarding colleges and universities, I don't know when we switched the purpose of higher education to vocational training rather than the pursuit of knowledge, but that was a mistake, too.

I would caution against further nerfing the world for 18-21 year olds. One of the problems we already have is that we don't let teenagers be teenagers (or indeed younger children) the way we used to, which is one of the reasons why they don't understand some things at 18.

Same

As Eric Clapton said, it's in the way that you use it.

I drove by a group of guys hanging out on what amounted to two front lawns (so neighbors were involved), all in lawn chairs that were ten feet away from one another, all having a beer or a drink. Seemed nice, Not being able to volunteer is killing me.

Well, that ends it for me. It's stupid. Might as well make Ken Wregget #5.

Not a hundred and ten percent? Low effort. Stafford.

He really wasn't that special. He had an incredible rookie year, and then he played with one of the best teams the NHL ever has seen. Everything in between was meh. Gotta agree on your last sentence. Maybe the top 15 or 20, but at a certain point, it's just a battle of who is more famous and who played with better teams. Like if Richter is on this list, I'll know it's total BS.

Is that on a provincial basis or does it just go trailer park by trailer park according to each trailer park supervisor?

The only POSSIBLE argument for best goalie ever on the planet, and I still reject it, is Tretiak. Hasek is the best goalie ever to play in the NHL, hands down, and NHL Network knows it. It also knows that it gets eyeballs on screens with controversy. I'm ok with Miller not making top 40, but not ok with Barasso making it in his stead. Miller was better.

That's me. I was trying to be incognito. Richie Incognito.

If you've got anything fun that only requires college-level number theory from the early 90s, please send it on. I really wish I had kept my VCR. I still have my treasured tapes of White Heat and Double Indemnity and In the Heat of the Night, but no way to play them.

Every person, save one, who buys one of those 50/50 tickets at any Sabres game, is a donor, and this goes back well before the Pegulas. I still don't know what the true charitable effect of the "Sabres Foundation" is and I still don't donate to it, through 50/50 or otherwise.

I'm not sure what a URI is, but they initially tested him for a pneumothorax (obviously negative). Since I've had one of those, that would have been my "jump to conclusion" as well. But I'm not a medical professional. I'm just a guy who blew a lung out 25 years ago. He also is not in New York state, where we have better hospitals, better physicians, and overall better quality of care than some other places.

So I learned a few days ago that my cousin has it. He's been discharged from hospital and is doing ok. He had a lot of trouble breathing and was misdiagnosed when he first went to the doctor.

If the league makes any change that lowers Detroit's chance of winning, I'll have to rethink my whole life. Again.