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"In pamphlets he brought to the meeting, Underwood asserted that sports, music instruction and other typical school activities were not necessary to participate intelligently in a free government and that using taxes to pay for them “crosses the boundary between public benefit and private charity.”

The pamphlet did not note that its author was a 1979 graduate of the public high school in Chesterton, Indiana, where he starred on the tennis team, ran track, played intramural sports and joined extracurricular activities in math, creative writing, radio and student government. Also: National Honor Society member, National Merit finalist and valedictorian."

 

Gas prices down 27 straight days.

Oddly, haven't seen much coverage.

 

I liked the part later on when they pointed out that he took debate in high school. A little hidden shot at him.

 

I did not know it was all
so fundamentally simple.
Thank you, Herschel Walker!

 

Herschel Walker, one night only at Giggles in Wrightsville!

 

Explain to me how this person who is "smart as hell" posted incorrectly about ectopic pregnancies and didn't understand the significance of the Pentagon's accounting errors.

[And went to BU]

 

It truly is amazing how far the academic standards at UGA have risen in the last 40 years. I’m not saying Herschel Walker was a typical Dawg in the classroom back then, but he’s closer than a lot of people like to admit.

 

Intelligence and being informed about everything you should be informed about are not the same thing. If you think someone who got elected to Congress in her 20s while working as a bartender and knocking off I think it was the third ranking Democrat in the House to do so is not smart, I don't know what to tell you. What have you done?

 

NCAA academic minimums (that IIRC were merely on the horizon in his day) had a lot to do with that.

 

Yeah, but even for Joe Blow from Tifton who never picked up a ball or bat, UGA was just a “fair to middlin” state school. Once the Hope Scholarship went through and there was enough demand to let them start being picky with admissions, it truly blossomed.