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I was just talking to my sister a few days ago about things said and things unsaid.  There are times you wish you had said something but you didn't, and there are times when you said something and wish you hadn't, and the latter way outnumbers the former.

But that is more for social situations, here at the institute we want a little latitude, and because we are all gentlemen nobody takes offense.

My darkling plain worry doesn't seem to be coming to pass, but it's early yet.  From what I hear that teenager is likely to skate.  The killer in Portland was in turn killed by the cops and indications are that he had it coming.  But details are slow coming out.  The teenager has high-powered lawyers and the Portland shooter is dead.  

And rather than the two sides shooting at each other the situation has calmed down.  There are cops parked along Wacker, blue bubblegums blazing, but the bridges have not been raised in about a month.  Those blm spokespeople who praised looting have not had a word to say of late, and maybe this is all for the good.  

I was confused by Beagles's questions about why the cop population is not in proportion to the civilian population.  I assumed it was because he wanted to know why having a majority (although the blacks, whites, and hispanics each have about a third of the population the blacks have the smallest third, so maybe he was assuming that the hispanics and blacks would unite against the whites, but that doesn't happen all that often) and the mayor the blacks didn't just use that power to make the police force majority black.  This was in accordance with his theory that the groups are always trying to take over each other and that is why I discussed that theory.

It is possible that he was using the disparity to make a case that racism isn't as prevalent as it once was, but that didn't seem likely.

The white equivalent of low faluting would be redneck or white trash or hill billy.  I think there is also a sizeable middle faluting class in both groups that Beagles does not take account of.

I agree that some blacks would not want to be cops because that would be selling out to the man, but there are still a lot who would like to be cops because the pay is very good, and they already live in plenty of danger.  But due to the conditions in the ghetto a sizeable percentage have police records, also the schools in the ghetto are pretty crappy so they don't do well on academic stuff.

Nobody interested in the myth of Sisyphus?  Anybody seen any good movies lately?

Oh how about this?  A woman who claims Trump raped her is suing Trump for defamation because he claims he never even knew her.  Bill Barr's Justice Department is claiming that since he claimed not to know her while he was president that makes the denial a presidential act and therefore the Justice Department is using it's considerable firepower to defend him.  And of course we shall all pay for that.  Oh just a molehill in the mountain of Trump's atrocities, but the twisted logic sticks in my craw.