A Change of Plans

This was a tough morning here, never mind anything closer to Ann Arbor. It is a dramatic change in som eo fht eunderpinnings for the Boomers. Splash laughed, since he has always appreciated the Buckeyes and enjoyed the rise he got each November out of Vic who wore his maize and blue proudly.
Until Covid. He got real sick from the efffects of the vaccine he was forced to take by the government nd was in some sort of recovery for a year or so before a relapse required more vascular surgery. So he claims he has had a four year break from our space-time continuums. He was surprised to find that an institution that meant a great deal to him had been transformed from one thing to another.
In this case, it was simply a reflection of the result of placing a dollar value on what had been previously an NCAA sport for young people. And more money than it is possible for a 19 year old kid to understand and the predators who want to explain.
His dismay on what happened to college football only reflected the state of education, Pre-K to Grad School is utterly bankrupted itself. It is the realization of things shaped in the faculty lounges of 1970s Berkely and Ann Arbor. The clever ways to overthrow The System.
It seems to have worked. Miles said we could go with a little venting to keep the Boomers quiet and the Zoomers could run their photo piece on the transformation of the farmer’s Corner where some of is live tomorrow.
The Boomers in the group have raised children with relative success and have observed the change across the three generations to the grandkids. The colleges we were proud of are now for-profit corporations that increase profit by laundering full-fare foreign students and breaks for all sorts of immigrants at taxpayer expense.
The hundred-thousand dollar worthless Bachelor-degrees have been revealed as a heavy collar of debt imposed on those just starting out. And managed by people like Coach Moore who do not share a common set of old the old behaviors that enabled us to live together, usually at peace. Remember Three Strikes and justice?.
The Zoomers chimed in, of course. Holly had watched Secretary Noem’s departure from the House hearing in which protestors pressed close to the Security Detail. forcing them against her while screaming- screaming- about her policies on immigration or something.
Vic says he is re-evaluating a lot of old loyaties, even one beyond he football field. He will still mutter “Go Blue,” but he realizes he is partly just cheering the money that runs things.
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