It also might have been the difference Between String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity, which is a hot topic among that group of scholars.
Is there any actual news value to knowing that a shooter is a cousin of a football player?
Are we supposed to think, well the football player must be living on the edge of the law himself? Why?
He might not have had any contact with his cousin in years. I have cousins I could walk past on the street and not recognize. They could rob a bank or win a Nobel Prize and I would be none the wiser.
You may be right. Neither side is willing to cede an inch to the other. As always in these cases, violence is the only resort.
There was an interview with some black guy in Buffalo that talked for an hour and a half with the punk shooter the day before. The black guy hung out at the store - said the bench out front was his “office.”
The guy said something like “So I see this kid in the store - it didn’t look like he was from around here. He’s got a t-shirt on that say ‘Genius’ on it. So I started talking to him to see if he was. We talked about Quantum Physics and String Theory - we talked for an hour and a half. Yeah - I guess he was a genius. But today Officer Brad was saying no loitering, so I didn’t even sit down. I went across the street. An hour later the shooting starts - he saved my life.”