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.

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.

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.

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.

Words from JFK

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

Words from Rich

Lord, please make me into the person my dog thinks I am.

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.

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.

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.

Fantasy Football IDP's

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

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.