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No, and the story wasn't even intended to be believed. Plato would be amazed that people 2,500 years later thought his fictional allegorical story was actually true. It's like believing that. Harry Potter really happened.

Wouldn’t that make the city with the stores non-contiguous? (Albeit with the non-contiguous parties of the city only something like 20 feet away from the contiguous portion.) There would be some amount of hallway separating some of the stores from each other.

Is there anything in the Louisiana Constitution that says that cities have to be contiguous?


Also, it’s kind of ridiculous how the city with the stores would seemingly get all of the sales tax revenue from the mall, while the city with the hallways would bear the cost of policing the hallways in the mall.

Holding more kids back probably is a good policy, but it can result in a largely artificial improvement in 4th grade scores. (4th and 8th grade are the 2 grades that are tested for public school rankings.)


Basically, even if the teaching quality in elementary school in Mississippi hasn’t improved one iota, you’d get gains in test scores just due to the fact that the dumbest 4th grade aged children in Mississippi are still in 3rd grade, and thus aren’t being included in 4th grade test scores.

Dumb luck can affect how much prison time you get. For example, few people would think that DUI should be punished as severely as DUI manslaughter.

Most people are atheistic toward Greek gods or Viking gods or Hindu gods or whatever. Some of us go one god further.

I'm not sure if I've been to church in about the last 10 years.

I'm now an atheist. But even before I became an atheist, I almost never went to Church.

I think people are overrating how hot she is TBH.

Those are rather lowly positions ever since his year as Auburn OC. And it’s not like he had a bad resume for the Auburn OC job at the time he was hired to that job. (He had been a bad head coach, but his offensive coordinator resume was strong before that.)


Edit: Dabo is making him OC again after he’s flopped so much at the lowliest of jobs, all due to his strong performance of Clemson OC more than a decade ago? Well, that’s kind of strange.

They probably have Jimmy Sexton as their agent. Almost every coach has Jimmy Sexton as their agent.

Sexton must be the greatest agent of all time if you think the market is the best judge of things.

But their competitors for jobs would also have Sexton as their agent. So having Sexton as their agent wouldn’t give them an advantage over their competitors.

Van Gorder did stay in college football for way too long, but now he's a high school defensive coordinator (not even a high school head coach), which is about the peak of the abilities that he really has.

It was bad enough how ND hired him after he flopped so badly at Auburn. But then Louisville was dumb enough to hire him after he flopped at ND. Van Gorder allowed over 50 points in 6 of his last 7 games as Louisville DC. Included in that span was allowing 77 points to Clemson. And in the one game in that span where Louisville didn't allow 50 points, they allowed 38 points to a BC offense that had Scott Loeffler as OC and Steve Addazio as head coach.

Speaking of Scott Loeffler and Steve Addazio, I don't know how I forgot to mention them as a "how do they keep getting jobs." Loeffler seriously managed to get a head coaching job at Bowling Green after he bounced around Power 5 programs coordinating some of the worst offenses of all time. And as for Addazio, well, nobody would have predicted that he'd get 3 FBS head coaching jobs (including one at a power conference program) when he was sucking as UF OC. Both Loeffler and Addazio have now stopped being idiotically hired (Loeffler was recently fired as a QB coach, and Addazio was fired as an OL coach a few years ago and is now an announcer because he can't get a coaching job), but it is remarkable how long they hung around.

When Loeffler became a head coach, he was the only guy who was still willing to give Van Gorder a DC job, albeit not at the P5 level. Van Gorder was fired as Bowling Green DC after 2 years and then fell to the high school assistant ranks.

Grantham doesn't really have the same track record of constantly getting new power conference DC jobs like Roof does. Grantham was demoted to a position coach for 3 years after getting fired at UF, and then when he sucked even worse as Oklahoma State DC, he was fired after just one year and is now the DC at UAB.