College football has sunk to a sad place when there’s no shame and no penalty for cheating (Michigan) and where one delusional conference (the SEC) conflates its very manhood with manipulating a fixed berth in the playoffs despite losses and iffy field performance. The only worthy team picked by the playoff committee is the University of Washington (13-0). Alabama, which was not on the playoff radar before defeating Georgia by 3, and Texas both have losses. FSU (13-0) has none, despite losing its star quarterback to a severe injury.
Yet a playoff cabal pretends it can rightly decree worthiness with bias and clairvoyance instead of tabulating wins. FSU beat tough teams, including longtime SEC powerhouses LSU and Florida.
Elevating Alabama to playoff relevance is reason enough to quit watching college football. But as an FSU alumna, I could not be prouder of my team for its perseverance, integrity and class. It won the ACC championship and earned a top four slot. Unfortunately, values and undefeated won-loss records didn’t impress the committee, which apparently fears a gifted team that pursues excellence through honest means.
Rebecca Eagan, Winter Park
Trump: Best of them all
I read the drivel from Michael K. Cantwell, the Delray Beach Democratic Club president (“A Trump-Biden rematch is a no-brainer,” Nov. 28) and I found it an utter insult to our intelligence.
On day one, when President Joe Biden, who sold his soul to environmental wackos, canceled oil drilling and leases, he took our economy from the Trump penthouse to the Biden outhouse. The 1.4% inflation he inherited from Trump became 9.1% within a year, highest in 40 years. It has fallen to a still-too-high 3.3%, but the outrageous spike in prices, particularly for food and gas, has not come down. In fact, Bidenomics has become such a laughingstock the administration doesn’t want it mentioned anymore. Don’t tell the average working family they’re better off than they were four years ago. You can’t lie to folks about their own personal finances.
Add in two wars thanks to Biden’s weakness and ineptitude, a porous southern border allowing in millions of illegals and rampant crime, and you realize that all Democrats can do is go negative and spread lies, innuendo and derision about Trump since they have nothing positive to offer. There isn’t one Republican running for president today who wouldn’t improve the nation dramatically in every way, and in my opinion, Trump is the best of them, because he’s already done it.
Neal Bluestein, Boca Raton
Sanitizing school libraries
The Sun Sentinel editorial “Sanitizing public school libraries,” was well titled because the aim of those against diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) is to eradicate individual thinking by sanitizing citizens’ minds to serve thoughtlessly. Marx’s dream, communism, is based on flawed ideas: collectivize citizens, organize for revolution and have a forever-expanding economy.
The collectivization of citizens is achieved by authoritarian means where a single, sanitized mind is reproduced through censorship and propaganda to create a population that will serve mindlessly, subordinating their thoughts to their leader’s will. The idea of a continuous expanding economy requires an army of workers and soldiers fighting for land and resources to serve a growing industrial base.
It’s interesting that the party of the “Red Scare” bases its philosophy on Marxist ideology. By sanitizing libraries, they seek to create a collective mind, following a single leader, who promises Marx’s utopian dream. No wonder Ashley Moody opposes diversity, equality and inclusion — they excluded voters, sanitize libraries and elevate one leader above all others.
Phil Beasley, Plantation
Too much debt forgiveness
With the government canceling so much student loan debt, where can my husband and I apply for refunds for all the undergraduate and graduate tuition we helped pay for our children and grandchildren? Their parents also contributed hard work, long hours and sacrifice. Certainly we all could have done lots of useful and even pleasurable things with all that money.
I was taught from my earliest years that if you borrow money, you have an obligation to pay it back.
Carol Cooper, Boynton Beach
