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I commented on "from the Archives" at the archived post. Thank you for your clarification. Here is what I posted:

$19,259,524--that is how much money from Ty Cobb has supported poor Georgia students with college scholarships. https://tycobbfoundation.com/

The Georgia Peach also endowed a hospital in Royston, GA.

(The Tommy Lee Jones movie and the Al Stump book are the only things pop culture seems to know). Cobb invested in Coca-Cola early, endowed a college scholarship for poor children and also supported his less well-off team mates after baseball.

(Full disclosure: I am a member of the Ty Cobb Museum and have visited many times).

You all visit! https://tycobbmuseum.org/

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I love Burning Chrome, especially the eponymous short story. Neuromancer is one of my favourite books. I first read it when I went back to college to study computer science and found it inspirational. It's a superbly drawn world, with every aspect thought out thoroughly. It's almost too good, in the sense that the cyberpunk genre has never really improved on it.

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I have tried to read Neuromancer from Gibson twice, and I never make it more than halfway. I have no idea what's going on in the book, seems like a random collection of sentences. I'm not even sure why that's an issue. I can't think of another books where I've struggled to understand the basic plot.

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Very right on with the comment of the week - tho all too often it's true about so much negative stuff: "previous judgments seem incredibly petty". Especially judging people, rather than policies.

The (not so very) old Ty Cobb note update says: "Apparently he was even an advocate for the integration of baseball. "

I think Charles Murray, Steve Sailor, and virtually any Republicans called "racists" would still advocate baseball integration.

Illegal racism is to support policies which restrict opportunities based on race - like today's segregated "Black only graduations" which happened in some colleges.

Believing that the data show Blacks, on average, have lower IQs is now considered racist. Saying that the data show fewer women than men get top 800 SAT scores in math, and thus fewer top physicists, is considered sexist. Larry Summers fired for speaking this truth.

In these respects, the TRUTH is racist, and sexist.

I really don't know about Ty Cobb specifically, but I'm sure most White heroes before WW II expressed White superiority over Blacks in words that, today, would be considered racist. Even those, like Lincoln, who wanted to end slavery.

It's important to mention here that in Africa, Black tribes hate other Black tribes in a tribalism that would be called racism if both Hutus and Tutsis weren't both Black.

In a Ray Bradbury book there was an idea expressed by a Black man that it would be good to have Martians, so that all Earthmen could unite against them. It's funny sad that many Democrats, today, hate Republicans in ways very similar to how Jim Crow Democrats of the past hated Blacks.

Recently there was a e-showing of paintings by Hitler. I thought a few of them were OK to good, not great, but about like Bush 43. How we feel about any art, and sports is a form of performance art / entertainment, is usually colored by how we feel about the artist as a person. For me, every writer who commits suicide, seriously damages their credibility about life philosophy, and makes me not want to bother with their books. If I enjoyed their work which I've read, I still enjoy the memories, but tinged with sadness.

I'm sure Marxism is a terrible system (I live in Slovakia) - but I hugely respect the written words and critiques of current civilization that are written on Freddie's Marxist substack.

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