I Saved 10 Lives On My Way to Work Today

This article in the Washington Post "White House: 650,000 jobs saved, created by stimulus" almost made me audibly laugh as I read the title. It really is brilliant to use a great-sounding-but-immeasurable statistic as the golden standard for progress.

I think this point it well described in this Wall Street Journal article back in June, "The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims."

My Son the Existentialist

He has now twice come up to me and asked "Is today tomorrow?"

I still don't have a very good answer for him :)

"Strawweight Bout"

This is what happens after the Yankees clinch their division and ESPN has nothing meaningful to talk about anymore...



I love the full breakdown by the official boxing analyst who sounds like he spends most of his time in some dark warehouse-turned-boxing-gym in north Jersey.