9.29.2012

Replacement Refs

One other comment on the replacement refs: They were doing the best the could. The NFL chose to provide an inferior product knowing that the refs would be in over their heads. Arrogance has destroyed many a great organization. Unfortunately, the NFL is probably the most arrogant organization in the land.

9.27.2012

NFL Week 4 Picks

Game
Rich
Kevin
CLE @ BAL
BAL
BAL
TEN @ HOU
HOU
HOU
NE @ BUF
NE
NE
SF @ NYJ
SF
SF
SEA @ STL
SEA
SEA
CAR @ ATL
ATL
ATL
MIN @ DET
DET
DET
SD @ KC
SD
KC
MIA @ ARZ
ARZ
ARZ
CIN @ JAX
CIN
JAX
OAK @ DEN
DEN
DEN
WAS @ TB
WAS
WAS
NO @ GB
GB
GB
NYG @ PHI
NYG
NYG
CHI @ DAL
DAL
DAL

Standings
Rich
Kevin
Current Week
11-4
 9-6
YTD Record
40-22
36-26

  Games with different picks are highlighted in red.

9.25.2012

Replacement Refs

Wow, what a disaster last night! How did the guy who called it an interception back off so easily? And what was the other ref doing running in and calling it a TD? He was clearly guessing. And he was the same guy who called pass interference on Sam Shields. Hope he was just incompetent...... and that there was nothing more to it.

I for one will be cutting back on my NFL viewing. Just too painful.

9.22.2012

NFL Picks - Week 3

Game
Rich
Kevin
NYG @ CAR
NYG
NYG
JAX @ IND
IND
JAX
BUF @ CLE
BUF
CLE
NYJ @ MIA
NYJ
NYJ
KC @ NO
NO
NO
CIN @ WAS
WAS
WAS
DET @ TEN
DET
DET
SF @ MIN
SF
SF
STL @CHI
CHI
CHI
TB @DAL
DAL
DAL
ATL @ SD
SD
ATL
PHI @ ARZ
PHI
ARZ
PIT @ OAK
PIT
PIT
HOU @ DEN
HOU
HOU
NE @ BAL
BAL
BAL
GB @ SEA
GB
GB

Standings
Rich
Kevin
Current Week
 7-9
 9-7
YTD Record
29-18
27-20

    Games with different picks are highlighted in red.

9.19.2012

Words from JFK

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.

9.17.2012

9.14.2012

NFL Picks - Week 2

Game
Rich
Kevin
CHI @ GB
GB
GB
KC @ BUF
BUF
BUF
NO @ CAR
NO
NO
CLE @ CIN
CIN
CIN
MIN @ IND
IND
IND
HOU @ JAX
HOU
HOU
OAK @ MIA
OAK
OAK
ARZ @ NE
NE
NE
TB @ NYG
NYG
NYG
BAL @ PHI
BAL
BAL
DAL @ SEA
DAL
SEA
WAS @ STL
WAS
WAS
NYJ @ PIT
PIT
PIT
TEN @ SD
SD
SD
DET @ SF
SF
DET
DEN @ ATL
ATL
ATL

Standings
Rich
Kevin
Current Week
10-6
10-6
YTD Record
21-10
18-13

   Games with different picks are highlighted in red.

9.13.2012

Obama & the Collectivity of Labor

Obama:  'You didn't build that."

From Hegel to Marx by Sydney Hook (a critique of collectivist thinking): No man working together with others, dependent upon the funded store of social knowledge and material can make a claim for what is exclusively his own. Even when working alone he finds that much more than his own "unaided" efforts have gone into the productions of the specific goods he creates, e.g. the techniques, traditions, language, and science without which he could do nothing.

The nature of the social productive process is such that it makes the absolute slogan "each is to receive the full product of his toil" inapplicable. Whatever is product is a collective productive product. It is only the collectivity of the labour, as Marx later showed in Das Capital, which can claim exclusive right to what is produced.

9.07.2012

NFL Picks - Week 1

Game
Rich
Kevin
IND @ CHI
CHI
CHI
PHI @ CLE
PHI
PHI
STL @ DET
DET
DET
MIA @ HOU
HOU
HOU
ATL @ KC
ATL
KC
JAX @ MIN
MIN
MIN
WAS @ NO
NO
NO
BUF @ NYJ
NYJ
BUF
NE @ TEN
NE
NE
SEA @ ARZ
SEA
SEA
SF @ GB
GB
GB
CAR @ TB
CAR
CAR
PIT @ DEN
DEN
DEN
CIN @ BAL
BAL
BAL
SD @ OAK
SD
OAK

Standings
Rich
Kevin
Current Week
11-4
8-7
YTD Record
11-4
8-7
                      
                      Games with different picks are highlighted in red.

9.03.2012

Fantasy Football IDP's

Great article by Ivar Anderson for those of you in leagues with Individual Defensive Players.

9.02.2012

Words from Rich

It would be a shame if a country went bankrupt borrowing money to pay for programs the people neither needed nor desired.

Originally posted June 10th.