Kenny Rogers had a big glob of rosin/pine tar on his hand in the 2006 World Series
 

You beat me to it. Rogers had a noticeable, half-dollar size dollop of pine tar on the heel of his mitt that caught the attention of the Fox cameraman. The announcers were incredulous, but after the game both teams and managers simply shrugged because they understood the need for such help when it's 45 degrees and you're trying to locate a pitch. I'm sure La Russa had his guys doing the same thing but more discreetly.

It's not easy watching this WS (or last year's) with all of the old Tiger players competing. In 2012 we had Verlander, Sherzer, Annaibal Sanchez in our rotation (also, Doug Fister). From last year's Red Sox team, we at one time had David Price, Rick Porcello and JD Martinez.

See you in the 2029 Wild Card game!!!!!

Agree on Sowell. He deserves all the praise he gets.

I am doubting your conclusion. 1000 SAT is mediocre at best. It doesn't get you into almost any good school. You might be a risk for some state schools.

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HBCUs are a great choice for above average blacks who plan on attending graduate or professional school. Kendi's wife, Sadiqa, is a pediatric emergency room physician. She attended Spelman and Yale University School of Medicine.

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A 115ish IQ with self confidence & social skills makes for a quality celebrity who can pass as highly intelligent to normies,
 

Therefore, the speech of these 115 IQ woke celebrity creations of the NYT does not have the deep and wide social reach that they might be hoping for. What comes from the mouths and pens of this IQ group is always going to hit an intellectual wall buried within even the "centrist" portion of the higher IQ socioeconomic strata of White gentile America.

But breaching that wall likely isn't the point, if it could theoretically be done. Which it likely cannot due to the fact that the expressed logic of personalities like Coates relies on the same moral and factual omissions. In an environment of full disclosure and open argumentation, their positions are always decisively defeated because they are falsifiable arguments born out of a desire for increased resources rather than morality. Hence the necessity for maintaining their closed conversations.

The point is likely to create significant enough social noise and antagonism among most of the population. Out of that noise, more resources, more power, and better political positioning for the short term future are gained.

The effort succeeds here, and middling intelligence loquacious POC are perfect frontmen to deliver those civically, morally, and factually flawed arguments, with conviction, to the broader populace. Smarter individuals might not be able to sell it as well.