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7 years must be long enough to come to your senses regarding Dave Matthews Band fan status, right?

Under construction, now and forever! Never stop constructing, E Rocc! ;-)

Except the person who posted that, using multiple identities here, is a Cleveland Browns fan. So you were arguing with a Browns fan in the Bengals thread? Good. That's precisely the point I was making!

Was that addressed to you and do you know what this means? Or perhaps you are his attorney? As the answer for both is "no" then I am confused why you feel obliged to comment on it. My primary point was that, while it was asserted that this thread had become an argument among Bengals fans, the Bengals thread had become an argument among Browns fans.

OMG E Rocc[/member], your website is amazing. www.erocc.net I mean, I honestly enjoy it, it takes me back to GeoCities, etc. Hahaha.

Both Rhinegeist and MadTree are into making hoppy beers, which are trendy and have contributed to their popularity.

Valid questions, but all we need to do is look at Vegas, Memphis, New Orleans, all of Europe, etc. to see how they handle it. Most of Europe handles it by just not restricting consumption anywhere. Not making districts. Not allowing just drinks served by bars. And letting people drink at 16. Then they use their fat VAT and income taxes to pick up any litter and clean the streets. My point is, we could try that, but since that's not what we're trying Europe isn't going to be a useful place to look for a model. I don't think Vegas or New Orleans have open container laws anywhere. Not sure about that, though. But I remember the to-go drinks were all served in plastic containers in the French Quarter. Memphis created a privately owned district on Beale Street which allows security to go beyond what would be constitutional on public grounds. That place is on lockdown and not very pleasant.

At least we aren't questioning each other's personhood.

Lately? Won the division last year. Won the division 3 times in the past decade. Won the division four times since Cleveland last did. Gone to the Superbowl twice since Cle....oh wait.

I'm just being silly re: the "midget" thing. But I do remember when the Bengals had significantly more post-season success, i.e. 1989. Though it's true they couldn't seal the deal. And we've certainly won the AFC North a lot more times recently. You can say that's irrelevant if you like, but there it is.

It's a lot more complicated than that. You have to look at things like white flight, suburbs as tax havens, suburbs tied to the "American Dream", the automobile's association with freedom, large plots of land being associated with individualism. There is a whole marketing engine which leads conservatives and libertarians to effectively abandon their principles by ignoring the market distortions that prop up the suburbs. A really tangible example of this is the NKY Tea Party's battle against tolls on the new interstate bridge. Fuel tax increases have been successfully avoided (in fact the rates were recently lowered in KY) to the point that what used to be covered by a general fuel tax could logically be replaced with more specific user fees (e.g. tolls), but these "libertarians" are upset that NKY residents would pay a "disproportionate" amount of money in tolls because they would be the primary users. This takes enormous leaps of logic, but is a perfect illustration of what passes for libertarian in today's America.

I didn't know Little John was old enough to be on tv that long. Might consider drafting some younger blood.

And our lazy local media never called him out on this lie. I pointed this out to a few reporters and their response was, "of course he wanted to cancel it all along." Sure, but the point is that he lied and claimed the purpose of that pause was the audit the project, not to inflict a near-fatal wound to it. Was the pause even Cranely's idea? Or did he just go ahead with it? Cranley orchestrated it when he didn't have 5 votes to straight-up Crancel the project immediately. Flynn and Mann went along with it (along with Murray, Winburn, and Smitherman). It was good for Cranley because it meant 6 votes, instead of 5, were required to not-Crancel. Hence the supporters' need for Flynn (who played ball harder than Mann). I have to think Mann felt duped when he realized he essentially ceded his power to Cranley and Flynn, on top of wasting $1m for no reason.

Rowdy and raucous =/= Cool

Clermont Connection and Laketrain don't have their primary hubs in their core cities' downtowns. TANK's primary hub is the same as Metro's: Government Square. Merging the systems is, of course, long overdue. Edit: guess I'm wrong about Clermont. Regardless, using only Metro to compare to COTA gives an inaccurate picture.

True libertarianism is not usually called conservative. It's just that many American Conservatives have branded themselves as libertarian. (Like Tea Party Christianists.) There are a lot of people called conservative who don't fitany traditional definitions of the word (I guess that's what you're saying), and there are a lot of conservatives that fit the definition pretty well (Obama, Clinton) who don't get the label. The parties and the media have carved out the political landscape into liberal and conservative, without accurate or consistent semantic distinction. Probably an inevitable symptom of the two-party system, but it really dumbs down discourse into false dichotomies and brews anger and resentment between unnatural "enemy tribes."

They have used 34% of the $9.7 million contingency. There's $6.4 million left. According to those numbers, $3.3m has been spent in contingency funds. If $1m is from Cranley's "pause," that means 30.3% of the money spent was directly caused by unnecessary obstruction.

Opinion?? Wow... BTW, we normally don't expect humor from a "person" such as yourself. It seems like you thought he was saying it wasn't being reported on, but what he was saying is that the reports did not acknowledge that Lewis's intent was tongue-in-cheek and not a serious insult. Why did you put 'person' in scare quotes? To imply Bosco4789 is subhuman/not a person?

According to this map, UC isn't even in the top 3 most popular teams in a single zip code (based on Facebook likes). Not even in 45220, 45219, or other zips around campus. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/upshot/ncaa-football-map.html I simply do not believe this. Their data is messed up.

The graphic design is impressive. Sleek and contemporary. Nods to the art deco aesthetic present in several of our landmarks. The C is reminiscent of the city's flag. Bravo. Edit: And of course the color scheme, which was picked to echo the old transit system colors. (For what it's worth. I'm not attached.)

I might have a few cobwebs, but I'll take the ginger over the midget.

jmeck...Does all crack taste the same?

Stay away from Carton's Rickey. Blech.

Those are good points, and help explain why a school like Rutgers was picked out of the Big East over Cincy. B1G sought a large school in the NYC market, not a perennially successful program. Edit: Success on the field helps put a school in the conversation, though. If a MAC school could actually hold a candle to Cincy, people would be talking about how they should get a leg up out of the G5 (whether it would be a super serious conversation, probably not).

If Cincy were MAC level, why tf do all the articles about the Big 12 not making the playoff mention Cincy as an addition and none of the MAC teams? Examples: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11993892/big-12-commissioner-bob-bowlsby-says-conference-reconsider-how-declare-champion https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/12/7/7347577/tcu-baylor-college-football-playoff-big-12-expansion Cincinnati (and a couple peers like Boise State and BYU) is recognized by all relevant parties, including national media and Big 12 insiders, as standing out above all other teams that aren't in a Power 5 conference. Calling the program MAC level is laughably ignorant.