City Football

People who seek to find blame, as distinct from causation, often also seek a localized source of evil to blame. Professor Paul Krugman, for example, refers to slavery as “America’s original sin.” But it would be hard to find an evil less localized than slavery. Though universally condemned today, slavery was an institution accepted as a fact of life for thousands of years, even moral and religious leaders around the world. Christian monasteries in Europe and Buddhist monasteries in Asia had slaves.--Sowell

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More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been recorded in Ethiopa this year through the end of September, compared with 4.5 million cases, and 469 deaths, for all of 2023. Worse, cases are likely to soar far higher in the next couple of months because peak malaria season, driven by seasonal rains, begins in September and runs through the end of the year.

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Government supplies money in proportion to failure, the private sector supplies money in proportion to success.--Vernon Smith

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City Football

Westinghouse defeated Perry 68–0 to advance to the city championship game. It was an extraordinary win.

The previous week, in their game with University Prep, a fight broke out on the field and the Westinghouse bench emptied. Westinghouse won the game but all the players who left the sidelines for the scuffle were suspended for the next game, the city playoff game against Perry. At the time, their offense was on the field so the entire team, except the eleven offensive players, were suspended.

So in the game against Perry, the eleven offensive starters were the only players available. They played both ways. Only one player had played a single play on defense all year. Throughout the game, they rotated one player out to rest him so most of the game they played with ten players.

And they won 68-0.

They eventually won the city championship and the state championship.