Renumbering World Wars

I am teaching US History I and we just finished up the Revolutionary War.  It was a war not just pitting the nascent United States against Britain.  France, Spain and the Netherlands were involved and there was fighting in India.  The war was not just confined to America's eastern seaboard.  It was a world war.

I wrote earlier that the Seven Years War should be called the First World War and now I think the American Revolution might deserve to be called the Second World War.  The French Revolution and Napoleon could easily be the Third.  So, would 1914 and 1939 be the Fourth and Fifth World Wars?

Let's leave that to future historians.

Hopefully we don't blow ourselves up in a Sixth!

Nah, we are not that stupid.....

....are we?

Stay classy, DC schools...

Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, was denied entry into a school in Washington DC by protestors. It reminded me of the George Wallace/Orville Farbus goofballs who resorted to similar tactics.  Idiots, right or left, are idiots.

Back in the 1950s/1960s, the education establishment resisted change,ie segregation.  In 2017, the alleged liberals are clearly unhinged.  What are they protesting? Protesting someone who wants to change the schools?  Say hello to your George Wallace avatars....

Our schools need help.  They are violent and out of control and run by many administrators who are neither competent nor interested in doing their jobs.  Teachers are leaving in droves and the same admin people water down statistics to make themselves look good so they get promoted in an ever expanding bureaucracy.

Kids and students suffer.

And these protestors want to keep it from getting better?

Here is an idea....shut up and listen, especially to people who might have different opinons. They might actually be right.

I thought liberalism was about tolerance or listening.  Not looking that way and you wonder why Trump won the election.

This story tells it all.  Will the Democratic Party listen?

http://nypost.com/2017/02/12/clinton-reminds-us-why-were-lucky-she-lost-the-election/

XFL Anniversary

It was fun while it lasted!

It might have been a little low brow and crude but it appears the NFL finally caught up to it (or sank to its level) a decade and a half later.

Say what you will about the XFL, no XFL player was ever arrested for anything.  Ray Rice, "Deflategate" cities being held hostage for new stadiums and were things that never happened in the XFL.  Maybe it wasn't around long enough or the players did not make enough money to get in trouble.  NFL offseason news tends to be a never ending series of arrests and sociopath behavior.

The XFL quality of play was behind the established league but lately NFL play has declined and there are too many commericials, not to mention too many rules that constantly stop play.

I have not even got to ticket prices and declining ratings.

There is time to turn it around though.  Will the NFL listen?

Anyway, I think there is room for a spring league in this country and it would be a lot of fun, especially for cities that don't have an NFL team,  It would be good for the game and the fans,!

Maybe the Los Angeles Chargers could find a real home......

....talk about something that was not that well though out....