Tied for First: Berkner 64, Pearce 46

From 2015 01 16 Pearce vs Berkner

In District 10-6A basketball action Friday night, the Berkner Rams men's basketball team defeated the Pearce Mustangs 64-46 at the Berkner gym. Berkner's Torey Everett led all scorers with 27 points.

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We Are the Best! (2013)

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We Are the Best! (2013): 13-yr-old Swedish girls form a punk band, despite not knowing music. Alienation, friendship, adolescent energy. B-

CityLine, Palisades and Strip Shopping Centers

I pledged to myself that I wasn't going to respond to the straw man argument by Rodger Jones of The Dallas Morning News dismissing criticism of the proposed Trinity tollroad. If I weren't already familiar with Jones's work, I would have guessed that he was merely trolling. "Don't feed the trolls" is advice I usually try to live by. To my benefit, D Magazine's Peter Simek rebuts Jones so I don't have to.

Jones' point, in short, is that the anti-highway and anti-Trinity Toll Road folks argue that highways don't lead to development. Then he points to a handful of developments to show that, yes, highways spur development.

I know, I know. I heard you groan. See, I've been trying to ignore it. But stay with me.

First, let's dismiss the straw men. No one claims that highways don't spur development. Rather, the argument is that highways spur the wrong kind of development in urban settings, development that generally promotes inefficient land use and contribute to broader urban decay. Yes, highways create development. They also incentivize development around cheap, undeveloped land.

Source: Frontburner.

So, enough with Jones and his straw men. That's the easy, obvious part of Simek's article. It's the rest of what Simek says that requires more thought.

First Place: Pearce 49, Mesquite Horn 46

From 2015 01 13 Mesquite Horn vs Pearce

In District 10-6A basketball action, the JJ Pearce Mustangs men's basketball team beat the Mesquite Horn Jaguars 49-46 at the Pearce gym.

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Barton Fink (1991)

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Barton Fink (1991): Early Coen Bros. NY playwright over his head in Hollywood. Surreal but I already said Coen Bros. Too many loose ends. B-