N.E. Brigand

I'd also like to note one notable point in the judge's decision: while he ruled that cheerleading is not a sport (for purposes of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act), he totally agrees that cheerleaders are competitive athletes (p. 67). If Spirit of Atlanta had remained Spirit of Jacksonville State University, I wonder if a decision like this would have led to some interesting consequences for drum corps.

No problem. Here's why it matters: One part of your argument is that because that document was a "complaint" by a party opposed to Varsity, it must therefore paint Varsity in the worst possible light. But it's nothing of the sort. Even if it were the initial complaint by the plaintiffs in the case, rather than the ruling the judge made in the case, the plaintiffs were not suing Varsity. This document is not someone laying out the strongest case against Varsity. Far from it.

Before we get further into this, I do want to thank you for providing that link.

Let's all agree on one basic point to start: that's not a complaint. It says right there on the first page: "Memorandum of Decision".

Take one for the team. Take one for the team.

OK, Tennessee.

Nice to see a band get a hit (their first in nearly a decade) in their 20th year together: Although there are other songs by the Strokes that might adapt more readily to drum corps. How about a mash-up of a bunch of their songs? Lots of brief excerpts? You could call the show the "Short Strokes". Or maybe the "Little Strokes". Or perhaps the "Mini Strokes"?

More seriously: individuals and organizations make bad decisions all the time. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, etc.

Or maybe they're all controlled by dark shadows, people you've never heard of. Some people probably think my account here is controlled by a dork shadow.

Mostly agree, although it depends on who "your audience" is.

It all goes back to how many deaths you can fit onto both sides of the album.

OK, this is a nice touch.

You do know what "per capita" means, right?

Well I hope it works out.

This is fall 2021? I'm certainly expecting normalcy by then, though as you say...

[1] I was responding to your post about nursing home deaths with a link to a U.S. government page that breaks those down per capita by state. Now you indicate that you want different numbers. Well, by all means feel free to provide them. [2] No, that's not a Covid-19 death. There have probably been some incorrectly recorded deaths here and there, but overwhelmingly you'll find that deaths in car accidents are not counted as Covid-19 deaths. [3] I'm certainly not disappointed that the number of deaths is "only" 183,000. I'm certainly not disappointed that we're "only" averaging the number of deaths from 9/11 every three days.

I don't know whether they did or didn't. I do know that these are the ten states (districts, territories, etc.) with the highest per capita deaths due to Covid-19 in nursing homes: 1. Massachusetts 2. New Jersey 3. Connecticut 4. Rhode Island 5. District of Columbia 6. Mississippi 7. Pennsylvania 8. Maryland 9. Arizona 10. Delaware source: https://data.cms.gov/Special-Programs-Initiatives-COVID-19-Nursing-Home/Resident-Average-Deaths-per-1-000-Residents/ps29-t4uv Texas and Florida are down in the middle of the pack. For unknown reasons, four states are under investigation by the Dept. of Justice regarding how nursing homes in their states handled Covid-19: Michigan, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, though two of them don't even make the top ten. I wonder what those states did wrong that Arizona and Mississippi, for example, supposedly did right.

You don't say.

SPQR AF.

Yes, that report is, as it happens, the very claim that the DEAD person is citing. As if to say: "I'm dead but I didn't really die OF covid! Instead I died WITH covid."

Spin Cycle is my second-favorite original music show for listening, albeit a distant second, after Florida Suite.

"It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be." . That is an actual statement put out today on the Twitter account of a famous person... ...who DIED of the coronavirus a few weeks ago. . So even if drum corps become drum corpses, it may not be that bad!

"Vultures are scavengers, meaning they eat dead animals. They rarely attack healthy animals, but may kill the wounded or sick." (source)

What a fun performance! Looks like several corps have played that "Tico Tico" before, but not for a while.