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The History Dept. building at my college sat adjacent to the Rathskeller. I took several History courses...all through a beer fog.
Only way to get through it!
I'm in $iliValley, too. 
Haven't made it down there in the six years I've been here. 
I wonder how many freepers will be able to figure out where CSPAN is on the television dial!!
But I doubt that the FReepers can find anything but Fux. 
Don't you know he promotes teh gay agen-duh? 
We're talking about Spongebob now. 
I have it on good authority
that he read an email that said "the debate is only hours away" and jumped to conclusions.
I love folks who laugh at themselves 
ReTHUGs are not happy with Harwood
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/27/cnbcs-john-harwood-has-no-business-moderating-a-gop-presidential-debate/
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It’s not news to anyone that political journalists tend to be liberal. That alone doesn’t mean they’re bad at their jobs, but the presence of strong political views combined with the lack of ideological diversity can pose problems for those with differing political views.
We see this frequently with mediated political debates, where journalists moderate and control what topics are covered, how questions are framed, and what assumptions are built into topics.
Some journalists are better than others, of course, but too often the moderators — from smug local journalists to Candy Crowley — become part of the story. They frequently don’t have the policy chops to ask good policy questions or respond to dumb policy answers. When they generally agree with a politician, they won’t push back on even the most erroneous or outlandish claims. But if they disagree with a candidate, they’ll push back, no matter how uninformed about the matter at hand they may be. This is related to another point of confusion: they seem to believe it’s their job to argue with candidates rather than facilitate discussions among candidates. The debate is supposed to be with one other, after all, not with the moderator.
Like Lewis Black's character in Inside Out. 
Well, hell, if Idris Elba's out there, count me in. 
Do you suppose it'll be decked out with KC gear? Actually, believe it or not, NOLA is a Cubs town (!), dating back to before there were any Braves or Astros or Rangers, and the city had close trade ties with Chicago.
Enjoy my former home town, chere! And do try to get out of the Quarter. Believe it or not, there are even better restaurants Uptown along the St. Charles streetcar and Magazine bus lines, Mid-City along the Canal streetcar and Esplanade bus, and really, all over the place. Yelp is your friend.
Bywater didn't flood in Katrina, being actually above sea level , so it really took off afterwards. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
CoMo is right around the dividing like between KC and STL fans.
I won't be mentioing it to my classmate friends and family. I'm seeing that a lot of them are really into it.
CoMo sits exactly halfway between the 2 cities on I70, but it tends to be more of a Cards town. Devoted Cards fans HATE the Royals after the 85 series enough to be happy to see them lose. So, I'm safe at home.
