by joe | Aug 1, 2011 | News & Politics
“…The world is watching in fearful — and sometimes gleeful — fascination as the Tea Party drives a Thunderbird off the cliff with the president and speaker of the House strapped in the back. The Dow is hiding under the bed with a glass of single malt. Can...
by joe | Jul 20, 2011 | Business
Michael Hiltzik of the L.A. Times has ruined my day. Probably my all-time favorite company, Amazon, just cut loose its California Associates so it could pursue a strategy of greed:...
by joe | Jul 4, 2011 | Books
This is a very cool post on today’s NY Times. Here’s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/03/movies/harry-potter-timeline.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28. You can track the dates from when J.K. Rowling got the idea for her boy-wizard...
by joe | Jun 27, 2011 | Sports
This piece by Michael Sokolove (in yesterday’s New York Times’ Magazine) is the best article I’ve ever read on the physics of baseball. Here’s a sample: At 90 miles per hour, average major-league speed, a baseball leaves the pitcher’s hand and...
by joe | Jun 26, 2011 | Sports
Is there anything more reliable than the gleeful venom of the Saturday Letters in the Sports page? Here’s a beauty, one of many, from today’s L.A. Times: My suggestion to whomever buys the Dodgers and doesn’t get the stadium parking lot, concessions,...