Chuck Barris

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What does "plant baw" mean? Pardon my ignorance and TIA...

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A man of rural Southern culture who is engaged in a blue-collar occupation, typically in a manufacturing facility, or "plant."

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- Lashlee

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This would be so, so funny.

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99% of bars that students go to are on a 1 mile strip on university Blvd

The only unsafe part about being a student is if you live near 15th street

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That area isn't unsafe either.

The crime in Tuscaloosa that isn't related to random fights and stupidity from drunk people gathering on the Strip is highly concentrated in two areas of the city that students have no reason to ever visit. The violent crime in these areas, like most violent crime everywhere, happens between people who already know each other. It's shootings that result from stupid personal disputes and drug deals. If you don't live in a high poverty area and you aren't about that life, it largely doesn't affect you.

Yes, there are crimes of opportunity that could largely be solved by people locking their cars and putting anything valuable in them in the trunk when they leave, but you aren't going to get mugged on the street or anything like that.

I'm usually one of the first people to break out "old man yells at cloud" meme but what this girl did was genuinely pretty bad. Dogs don't want to be around 100,000 yelling humans and booming music. Dogs don't need to be outside in a concrete structure with no grass in intense heat and humidity.

Pets aren't fashion accessories. They rely on us to care for them, and we need to live up to that responsibility.

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But the difference is, the system expected them to assimilate. Schools taught English, businesses operated in English, and politicians didn’t pander in fifteen different languages to win votes. There was one culture to join … not a hundred competing ones.

What we have today isn’t the same “melting” pattern, it’s fragmentation. When entire cities operate in multiple languages, when people refuse to identify as Americans first, and when illegal entry is rewarded instead of punished, that’s not melting. That’s erosion.

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Americans have shared these worries for centuries. Ben Franklin wrote a letter questioning whether German immigrants would ever assimilate in 1753. President van Buren's first language wasn't English. The first nativist party was founded in 1844 due to fears over mass Irish immigration. We banned Chinese immigration in the late 1800's.

Depending on where you lived, there have always been ethnic neighborhoods, businesses operating in other languages, and ethnic voting blocs. The USA has seen the wave of nativism rise and crash before, and it will again.

There's a particular irony in being outraged that an inhabitant of Puerto Rico, an island that was speaking Spanish well before Americans ever showed up and took it from Spain, has the gall to *gasp* speak Spanish in public.

The main issue here, and one that makes this debate nearly impossible to resolve, is that we're dealing with two very different ideas of what makes someone an American. One group of people thinks that Americans share a common language, ethnicity, and religion, and the other thinks that those things are almost irrelevant to whether or not someone is an American.

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Kid Rock, Lee Greenwood, Trace Adkins and who else?

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Someone who's put a song on the charts in the past twenty years?

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Go to any of the poor sections of any “urban area” in any South American or African country and report back to us.

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Or European, or Asian, or Australian...

shite in the toilet (Poliboard), not in the pool (tRant).

The worst part of it is that you're screwing over all of the businesses and workers in your community who rely on those home game dates to pay their bills.

You know your coach is good once the trolls transition from "You're stuck with him!" to "I bet he's gonna leave!"

I expect to read about how Nicole DeBoer's been hunting for a house in Austin any day now.