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Octafish

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1. “Football is the ballet of the masses.” ― Dmitri Shostakovich

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Thu May 9, 2013, 09:13 PM

May 2013

Basketball and the rest of it, too, demonstrate the importance of the circus to the Ownership Class.

Personally, I can't get enough of the mob's Bolshoi. Football. Football. Football.

The thing is, those blue states are the ones that have their priorities right. Truth. Science. Medicine. The Law. They are what bring true progress.

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Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably) [View all] grahamhgreen May 2013 OP

“Football is the ballet of the masses.” ― Dmitri Shostakovich Octafish May 2013 #1

The blue states just don't have public universities in BCS conferences fishwax May 2013 #5

So the solution would be to get rid of the conferences, yes? muriel_volestrangler May 2013 #6

Hardly. I think half of Hollywood would get more than a John Wooden. And CEO's? Goldman-Sachs? WinkyDink May 2013 #2

State employees; people employed by the state, an agency or state college... NYC_SKP May 2013 #3

The amount of money football generates far exceeds its costs LittleBlue May 2013 #4

We are so far beyond fucked that the light from fucked won't reach us for ten billion years n/t Fumesucker May 2013 #7

Nope. cali May 2013 #8

If one wanted to demonstrate the fundamental problem with America in one graphic, Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #9