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Given all the things that folks argue should be gotten rid of, suppressed, censored, kept out of private hands, etc., because of the danger of mayhem ensuing, you’d think that someone would suggest we should ban the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other sports championships, given the inevitable yahoo behavior<\/a> that ensues.<\/p>\n

By contrast, crowds in Oakland set cars ablaze and threw rocks and bottles at passing vehicles after the Raiders’ loss. Police fired tear gas and moved in large waves to disperse crowds.<\/p>\n

Guys … it’s a frickin’ game<\/i>, played by folks that make a hell of a lot more money, even as losers, than I’ll make this year. Let’s keep a little, I don’t know, perspective <\/i>here.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given all the things that folks argue should be gotten rid of, suppressed, censored, kept out of private hands, etc., because of the danger of mayhem ensuing, you’d think that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13313,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/maybe_you_should_have_tho.html","url_meta":{"origin":4158,"position":0},"title":"Maybe you should have thought of that earlier, people","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Jan-09 10:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So with the order to close Gitmo, the question becomes, what to do with the folks being held there?\u00a0 Republican lawmakers, who oppose Mr. Obama\u2019s plan, found a talking point...","rel":"","context":"In "Crime & Punishment"","block_context":{"text":"Crime & Punishment","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/crime-punishment"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":883,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/06\/okay_this_quali.html","url_meta":{"origin":4158,"position":1},"title":"Okay, this qualifies as censorship","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-01 1:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Research on the Mayas demonstrates what happened when regimes changed. 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