Voltaire

He's a hero of mine. I think MLK's dream is and ought to be treated as the true north guiding star for race relations. I'm glad we''re finally realizing it in 2025, although we are still divided along other lines..

Put me down as wishing Mamdani every success in getting all his policies implemented. Personally, I think 92.8% of New Yorkers deserve Mamdani's leadership (Silwa got 7.2%). The younger generation needs to see firsthand what happens when you elect Pennywise the Dancing Clown and many of the rest of us could use a reminder as well.

Having taught in both, I do think Chinese school are better than US ones overall but there are things Chinese schools get wrong too. Those great academic results come at a cost of long school hours, combined with excessive homework. Low achiving kids are shamed which leads to stress and suicides and even high achievers experience burnout. Plus there is far more memorization than deep understanding and its regimented with everything taught from the same sources o there isn't much diversity of approaching problems. On a personal level only two of my three kids excelled in the pressure cooker over there, but all three are top students over here, including my son, whose confidence was shattered. The kid's getting straight As here, like his sisters are, but China is willing to throw kids lie him to the wolves. They use brutal shame and humiliation tactics. The parents have the equivalent of a facebook group and with my girls' classes : who did great on the test, who got everything right on their math homework, who are the class leaders who keep the kids in line and pass out papers and wear the little Young Pioneers badges (a pool that identifies future potential Communist Party members) and my two girls were often in this group. The flip side of that is we also learn... who didn't turn in homework, who was talking in class, who forgot their pencil, who failed the test... and there's the always same moping 8-10 dejected kids including quite frequently my son. It's why I pulled him out, put him in that accredited online school out of Kansas City, and became a homeschool dad for the last two years in China. Since the girls were temperamentally suited to dong well, I left them in the Chinese system. The shaming doesn't end with school. Two people infected with COVID had fled Hunan and arrived in Panzhihua as the COVID crackdown was being put in place. One turned himself in to the authorities. The other evaded them, went shopping at the local mall, and eventually she infected nine other friends and family before they were all rounded up. The names and addresses of all eleven were posted online and known to the whole community. There was fear but also some sympathy for ten of them, but the college girl super spreader... such venom and rage.

Bengals have been getting decent QB play, that defense is atrocious,

It's been a brutal injury year for all of them. I moved the Ravens back up to 13.

Are you delusional? The Rams outplayed the Eagles more like it. The clearly better team lost that day. A bunch of flukes went Philly's way to extract a win out of their asses. Also, Philly hasn't smoked a single team all year.

1) Los Angeles Rams 7-2 2 2) Seattle Seahawks 7-2 3 3) Philadelphia Eagles 7-2 4 4) Detroit Lions 6-3 6 5) Kansas City Chiefs 5-4 7 6) Green Bay Packers 5-3-1 5 7) Indianapolis Colts 8-2 8 8 ) Buffalo Bills 6-3 1 9) Los Angeles Chargers 7-3 10 10) New England Patriots 8-2 12 11) Denver Broncos 8-2 11 12) Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6-3 9 13) Baltimore Ravens 4-5 17 14) Chicago Bears 6-3 18 15) San Francisco 49ers 6-4 13 16) Minnesota Vikings 4-5 14 17) Pittsburgh Steelers 5-4 15 18) Carolina Panthers 5-5 16 19) Houston Texans 4-5 21 20) Jacksonville Jaguars 5-4 19 21) Arizona Cardinals 3-6 22 22) Dallas Cowboys 3-5-1 23 23) Atlanta Falcons 3-6 24 24) Miami Dolphins 3-7 27 25) New York Giants 2-8 25 26) Washington 3-7 20 27) New Orleans Saints 2-8 30 28) New York Jets 2-7 31 29) Cleveland Browns 2-7 26 30) Las Vegas Raiders 2-7 28 31) Cincinnati Bengals 3-6 29 32) Tennessee Titans 1-8 32

The Senate bypassed Schumer to reach a funding deal with eight non-Schumer Democrats. Maybe it'll stick, but it still has to get passed by the House and signed by President Trump. What this means for Schumer, I don't know. The radical leftoid faction wants his head anyway and he's still likely to get primaried by AOC and lose his seat unless AOC bypasses him and runs for president instead.

Pirates 3 Dodgers 2

Was hoping this would trigger the end. Wishful thinking. We'll see as there may finally be some movement.

NFL/MLB/NBA.NHL teams are always looking to turn a buck any way they can. If naming rights to the stadium get auctioned off, put in a bid. I wish they'd held firm on the name Redkins for the team though. Focking Commanders

"Tranny" is not nor ever has been a slur. We have a multitude of derogatory things to call them and that's the nice one.

Man the Redskins are dinged up. With that many holes, they didn't stand much of a chance.

Ah... oh... didn't click on it. Sorry

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio) November 10, 1975. What an awesome song Gordon Lightfoot wrote to commemorate the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy. Give it another listen here on the 50th anniversary of the sinking.