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Robert Winfree retweeted
"There were times when my nose bone was broken by an elbow, and I was given a Tiger Driver from the apron. I always wanted to put on a match that made the fans who supported us proud to say to those who don’t watch wrestling, 'Watch Misawa vs. Kobashi!'" - Kobashi, 2013
28 years ago today - Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa
All Time Classic! Match of the decade by Nikkan Sports. Match of the year by Tokyo Sports, Nikkan Sports, WON! And perhaps the most epic Tiger Driver in history
#ajpw
Robert Winfree retweeted
22 years ago today, Wanderlei Silva defended the PRIDE Middleweight title against Rampage Jackson.
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Fun fact: originally the line was "the first non-fictional person to travel back through time," but the higher-ups at FOX found that line too confusing since "non-fiction" is a genre, so it was changed to "non-Brazilian"; to this day, not even Matt Groening himself knows what that means.
"Treehouse Of Horror V" Time & Punishment Orignally airing October 30, 1994
#SpookySeason 🎃 #TheSimpsonsGoats #TheSimpsons #SimpsonsForever
Robert Winfree retweeted
That smile when Picard realized he stood corrected by a person who had not even read the source material she had been referring to—but was still correct, and he, who could quote said source material from memory, was wrong.
I enjoy Doctor Sleep for the most part, but once again the mind melting difference in lighting quality between past and present cannot be ignored.
Robert Winfree retweeted
For the love of god book one good fight between now and January please
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“It’s a remake of The Great Gatsby, Liz, except this time they solve crimes. I play Nicole ‘Nicky’ Carraway, a cop with dreams of becoming a writer”
Robert Winfree retweeted
Orwell's great observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that to shrink a person's vocabulary is to shrink his capacity to think.
An impoverished version of English removes the mental tools needed to formulate and communicate complex (and dissenting) ideas. Such is the deep, complex relationship between language and thought.
We don't read "difficult books" to say that we've read difficult books. We read them because they expand the boundaries of what we are capable of thinking and feeling — we ascend to their level. Vocabulary helps us to recognize truths otherwise beyond our grasp.
This revelation is worse than you may think. This must be reversed.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
Robert Winfree retweeted
Tommy Lee Jones and Alice Cooper come from the same school of thought. The key to never looking old is to never look young in the first place.
