My understanding of it (and from looking at videos) is that the tents (really I would call them canopies as they usually do NOT have sides, only a roof) are provided by the schools participating in the event. Each school has/owns their own tent that they bring with them; some tents are bigger than others. Some teams/schools might not even have a tent.

When I was in high school decades ago, our cross-country team went to several events where other teams brought their own tents (some with their team logo/mascot printed on it). These tents were for shade as well as storing coolers and other equipment under. Our team did NOT have a tent; but we knew that you just do not go under another teams tent – that would like like walking into the opposing teams locker room. You just do NOT do that. I see no reason to believe that Karmelo Anthony did not know that either.

I’m with Neo on this – I find McWhorter’s comments annoying because reading his education background he most certainly should know better than to make some of these downright stupid ignorant comments.

Yes, he supposedly apologized — that is, he acknowledged that he shouldn’t have said it in public — but he also said he did, in some part of himself, still believe it. So the “apology” is worthless.

I used to enjoy his witty, creative takes on linguistics. But after that, I’ll never take him seriously again. And this half-baked effort to find a way to blame white people for murderous brainless thugs like Karmelo Anthony is not going to change my mind.

We haven’t lifted the blockade, it was to be a phased relaxation following on Iranian performance. You think all the ships just went home? We poured resources into the area for months, they aren’t going anywhere in 24 hours.

Either they mean it

Why wouldn’t they? They’re the old farts of the revolution. I doubt they yet realize how weak their hand is. And maybe they don’t care.

Who knows how many moving parts there actually are.

I think it helps to ask what Trump’s end goal is. My guess is that it is much greater than just settling Iran, I thinks he wants to remake the whole region. There are provisions in the MoU that seem aimed at that, and it also explains his actions in Lebanon.

1) https://josephheath.substack.com/p/harari-vs-henrich
Harari vs. Henrich: What science actually says about human evolution
by Joseph Heath Jun 12, 2026
from my notes: “this relatively short comparative review of two books on human evolution.
Each proposes an opposite or reverse sequence in the development or evolution of the 4 main traits claimed to be what makes us human and qualitatively and quantitatively different from the other animals…”

2) Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny [2019] by Michael Tomasello [2019]
[ basically a collection and overview from his prior books on human communication, cognition, morality, and the latest one on agency.]

Depending on if and/or when the Neanderthal species broke off from some common earlier hominid one, and where our branch broke off in parallel or separate from that line, we can expect a set complicated developmental contributions in a number of areas important to the ultimate success of homo sapiens.   

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/06/dni-gabbard-releases-fauci-files-video.html

Trump is negotiating with somebody, but who that is we have no idea. There are obviously other groups all pushing their own agendas. We have no real idea who they are — the IRGC mosaic groups who are probably still a bit fragmented, the regular army, the Kurds and other ethnic subgroups.

And then there are Iran’s neighbors all pushing their own interests. It is all very opaque. Who knows how many moving parts there actually are.

Islam like ALL totalitarian ideologies, shares the dialectic of the Left; “When I am the weaker, I ask you for mercy because that is YOUR principle.
But… when I am the stronger, I show NO mercy because that is MY principle.