how many white hunters kill deer with a taped up weapon while searching for the top quark?

I still retain that central Illinois philosophy that, except for houses and stuff, land not being used for growing corn is land wasted. When I went to Pittsburgh I was shocked at the tree carpeted mountains along the side of the road. They just sat there doing nothing. Well I suppose it would be hard to grow corn on a mountainside, unless you were a moonshiner, I hear they do that all the time.

Any cats up there? Lately it appears there are more cougars than anybody thought there were, and they are so sneaky that if you can’t see them, that just proves they are there. What about lynxes, aren’t those cats of the frozen waste? And bobcats, surely there are bobcats. I saw one at a rescue station some years ago, and even before you got to his little area it stank to high heaven. People there said that they peed all over to protect their territory, but wouldn’t that make it hard for them to sneak up on prey?

I was being lazy when I said that about the Higgs bosun. I knew that they had found it a year or two ago, but I was just searching for an example and I thought how the hell would Beagles, way up there, and only catching what little news comes on during the market report, and probably not subscribing to Scientific American, know about that? Oh what a world we live in.

I was probably thinking of the top quark, another one of those elusive particles, that if they couldn’t find it, then they would have to toss the whole of modern physics into the dustbin and start over, but then I wikied it and discovered: the two groups jointly reported the discovery of the top with a certainty of 99.9998%

So I guess that’s good enough for me. Maybe now we have found everything.

The last half of your last paragraph refers to several events of late that I guess could be generally considered Ferguson. This thing about how many black cops kill white people etc, is just a Fox canard. What difference does that make? If more or less, say, black cops kill white people, does that make it okay or less okay?

And anyway, just thinking about it, it’s pretty clear that there would be more white cops killing black people since most cops are white and blacks, due to their lower income, are disproportionately in the criminal class. The problem is do they do it too much, or just the right amount, or too little.

At the bottom is should they have shot that guy in Ferguson (my own opinion, probably) or strangled that guy in Cleveland (my own opinion, probably not), that kid with the toy gun (my own opinion, probably not). There is the individual case. But then in more general terms is the issue of whether the local police are too brutal or racist. But then above that is the more general issue of are police in general brutal or racist. But then above that is the more general issue of whether black people are treated right or not. And then there are all these side issues like, even so, do these protests do any good, or should the police be driving tanks?