Mr Zorn should copyright "The Indiana Way" for a podcast about how awful politics are in that MAGA state, its history with the KKK, it acting as a source for guns for Illinois, etc., and how it is a perfect place for Kass to live.
A challenge with only getting rid of the penny is that prices will still have to be quoted in dollars with two decimal places. This would be a constant reminder that one "pays extra" every time the price rounds up, and there will too many people convinced that price setters work that in their favor. If we eliminate the nickle and penny, then prices can be quoted with one decimal place, making rounding less visible. I have not heard anyone get upset about prices after sales tax get rounded up from a fraction of a penny. The penny is considered an atomic unit of currency. We could potentially shift that to the dime.
More interesting Eric is how many Never Have I Ever points do your kids have? Mine in their mid 20’s only have a few points thanks to i) a grandma who never replaced her landline phones and kept her typewriter for playing on and ii) going to overnight camp for many years ( where older counselors exposed them to music on many devices and where they regularly sent postcards and faxes). Oh also their “hipster” friends with a record player. I suspect kids just a few years younger might have more points.
I wonder. If the person shot by Officer Stillman had been a 5’5” 130 lb 18 year old, with a rap sheet and history of violence, would Stillman be under review to lose his job? I strongly suspect the answer is no. I am a bleeding heart liberal, but we need to be realistic about this. It was 2am, in a dark alley. It was known the suspect had a gun and it had been fired. Stillman had a split second to make a decision that might cost him his life or the suspect his life. I’d make the same choice he did. The fact that it turned out to be a 13 year old who tossed his gun while he turned around should not change our opinion of how the officer should have reacted.
So with rounding up or down--does the business where transaction took place get the extra, um, cents. They will round up right.
Zorn-looking very Biden-like on Mincing!
Enjoyed hearing about the John Hartford music and story-thx for link to see more. An icon in our Forgottonian part of the state. Saw him at an early 80's fest outside Dickson Mounds Museum near Lewistown IL with other fun players and special guest, a teenaged state fiddle champion, Allison Krauss. She started recording at 14.
Yes, I think Twitter go bye bye as well and will miss the tweet contest!
One only needs to look at the recent murder of Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso to understand and perhaps put themselves in Officer Stillman's shoes. If there is a measure of time less than a "split second", that would be the amount of time officers have to make a decision that if made incorrectly could mean his or her own death. From what we know in this case it's pretty clear that Adam Toledo was running away with a gun in his hand. A gun that had recently been fired, whether at someone or not. The outcome was awful, but the officer's actions should be understood and judged in full context.
I originally come from the east coast where I regularly used the word dibs. We called dibs to use the sandlot where we played baseball. We called dibs to be the team to get up at bat first. We called dibs on where we would sit in a car. We called dibs on who could use the bathroom first.
However I never heard the word in relation to a parking space, that I think is unique to Chicago.
Good analysis on the Toledo shooting. Another factor: if the guy known to have a gun turns around towards the cop, the police officer already has to have made the decision to fire. If he waits to see if the gun is still in the potential shooter's hand, the officer can be scheduled for the teary funeral.
Thanks for the link to the article written by Dave Zirin about Caitlin Clark. He really hits the nail on the head. Clark's response to the situation couldn't have been handled better. She had the opportunity to become basketball's version of Kyle Rittenhouse but chose a different path. Good for her.
Your mini-bio of John Hartford and his death from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2001, reminded me of how far many medical treatments have progressed since then. I don't know the particulars of his or Liam Hendriks' experience with the disease but the fact that the latter may pitch again this season is truly remarkable.
A couple of thoughts. I grew up in the 9th Ward in the 1960s. Dibs for parking spots is older than that. Chicago politics? It's not even close to as interesting as it used to be. I had relatives that were Cook County court bailiffs. They did little for paychecks but did good ward work. I failed to get a youth job at Palmer Park because I could not list a political sponsor on the application. Ah, most of you are just too young to remember the good old days.
Mr Zorn should copyright "The Indiana Way" for a podcast about how awful politics are in that MAGA state, its history with the KKK, it acting as a source for guns for Illinois, etc., and how it is a perfect place for Kass to live.
A challenge with only getting rid of the penny is that prices will still have to be quoted in dollars with two decimal places. This would be a constant reminder that one "pays extra" every time the price rounds up, and there will too many people convinced that price setters work that in their favor. If we eliminate the nickle and penny, then prices can be quoted with one decimal place, making rounding less visible. I have not heard anyone get upset about prices after sales tax get rounded up from a fraction of a penny. The penny is considered an atomic unit of currency. We could potentially shift that to the dime.
More interesting Eric is how many Never Have I Ever points do your kids have? Mine in their mid 20’s only have a few points thanks to i) a grandma who never replaced her landline phones and kept her typewriter for playing on and ii) going to overnight camp for many years ( where older counselors exposed them to music on many devices and where they regularly sent postcards and faxes). Oh also their “hipster” friends with a record player. I suspect kids just a few years younger might have more points.
I wonder. If the person shot by Officer Stillman had been a 5’5” 130 lb 18 year old, with a rap sheet and history of violence, would Stillman be under review to lose his job? I strongly suspect the answer is no. I am a bleeding heart liberal, but we need to be realistic about this. It was 2am, in a dark alley. It was known the suspect had a gun and it had been fired. Stillman had a split second to make a decision that might cost him his life or the suspect his life. I’d make the same choice he did. The fact that it turned out to be a 13 year old who tossed his gun while he turned around should not change our opinion of how the officer should have reacted.
So with rounding up or down--does the business where transaction took place get the extra, um, cents. They will round up right.
Zorn-looking very Biden-like on Mincing!
Enjoyed hearing about the John Hartford music and story-thx for link to see more. An icon in our Forgottonian part of the state. Saw him at an early 80's fest outside Dickson Mounds Museum near Lewistown IL with other fun players and special guest, a teenaged state fiddle champion, Allison Krauss. She started recording at 14.
Yes, I think Twitter go bye bye as well and will miss the tweet contest!
One only needs to look at the recent murder of Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso to understand and perhaps put themselves in Officer Stillman's shoes. If there is a measure of time less than a "split second", that would be the amount of time officers have to make a decision that if made incorrectly could mean his or her own death. From what we know in this case it's pretty clear that Adam Toledo was running away with a gun in his hand. A gun that had recently been fired, whether at someone or not. The outcome was awful, but the officer's actions should be understood and judged in full context.
Love him or hate him, calling John Kass an "Indiana man" in pursuit of "The Chicago Way" is like calling Michael Jordan a Washington Wizard.
Get rid of the dime, too. And probably the quarter and paper dollar, too.
I originally come from the east coast where I regularly used the word dibs. We called dibs to use the sandlot where we played baseball. We called dibs to be the team to get up at bat first. We called dibs on where we would sit in a car. We called dibs on who could use the bathroom first.
However I never heard the word in relation to a parking space, that I think is unique to Chicago.
Good analysis on the Toledo shooting. Another factor: if the guy known to have a gun turns around towards the cop, the police officer already has to have made the decision to fire. If he waits to see if the gun is still in the potential shooter's hand, the officer can be scheduled for the teary funeral.
Any thoughts on what’s taking Biden so long to have DeJoy removed as Post Master General?
Thanks for the link to the article written by Dave Zirin about Caitlin Clark. He really hits the nail on the head. Clark's response to the situation couldn't have been handled better. She had the opportunity to become basketball's version of Kyle Rittenhouse but chose a different path. Good for her.
Your mini-bio of John Hartford and his death from non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2001, reminded me of how far many medical treatments have progressed since then. I don't know the particulars of his or Liam Hendriks' experience with the disease but the fact that the latter may pitch again this season is truly remarkable.
Very little of NPR’s funding comes from the government. By which I mean there is a certain amount; however, they do have it relatively under control.
Your subscribers are wrong. The tweet about true happiness is classic.
A couple of thoughts. I grew up in the 9th Ward in the 1960s. Dibs for parking spots is older than that. Chicago politics? It's not even close to as interesting as it used to be. I had relatives that were Cook County court bailiffs. They did little for paychecks but did good ward work. I failed to get a youth job at Palmer Park because I could not list a political sponsor on the application. Ah, most of you are just too young to remember the good old days.