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I did the test: STR: 11 INT: 15 WIS: 16 DEX: 9 CON: 8 CHR: 16 That's probably about right. The older I get, the more skewed I'd probably be towards wisdom and charisma than skills that would fit anywhere else. if I was doing this myself, I'd probably take a point or two away from strength or...

I've been trying to chase some of the hard news angles of this story...I've written about the financial implications of the cancelation of the NCAA Tournament, and there's some administrative stuff to chase here, since the entire athletic calendar and core NCAA rules will need to be rewritten...

whats the fiddy chat url?

Outside of internet and cell phones, I have: family YMCA membership Cloth diaper delivery service Netflix Both Nintendo and Playstation online capability Amazon Prime Disney+ (I have little kids!) Spotify Premium YoutubeTV Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Block Club Sports Business Journal...

Of course they do, they just don't pay income taxes. But poor people pay taxes on the products they buy (sales), on the apartments they rent (property), and on the fuel they use (gas).

Well yeah, but so does almost any other charitable organization or non-profit. That doesn't make them businesses. If the hypothetical dance center is non-profit, then I would agree, it should get the same property tax exemptions that a church does. If a church-related investment vehicle or...

I think Utah would probably make an interesting case study about a lot of this stuff. On one hand, I think you could probably argue that there have been positive policy outcomes correlated with the high LDS population and cultural influence in the area. Utah's income inequality is some of the...

If we removed this tax exemption in America, I think you'd see a lot of historic churches in urban areas get snapped up by property developers and turned into condos. Then vulnerable people are out a community space, and rich people get fancy apartments. Outside of public libraries, there are...

Do you remember the NMFishbowl website? The guy that did a lot of the adversarial reporting on the New Mexico athletic department actually lives in Chicago, and we've become friends. It is pretty amazing how many bad decisions (including criminal ones! their AD went to JAIL) happened all at once...

This is an interesting question. I think my answers would have been much different earlier in my life....but now, with a family and children, I think it would be very, very difficult to get me to leave the country, especially since my professional skills are pretty limited to America. I think...

I thought that having small children around would temper my urge to curse constantly....but it hasn't as much as I thought. I've gotten pretty good about not doing it around my kids (especially after my oldest repeated a few of them....embarrassing, but also objectively very funny).....but at...

I've spent the last two years doing a lot more work on the economic, administrative and financial side of college football. I've had some publisher interest about writing about what schools actually GET from football, doing case studies on huge schools, small liberal arts colleges, canadian...

I'm gonna try to write a second book

I still dont really get why anybody who isn't paid to watch these is watching them

I think senior discounts are perfectly justifiable, and I dont begrudge anybody for using them, even wealthy seniors