I’ve talked about this before – I watch award shows – I despise award shows – etc etc but finally the Emmy’s have come up with the ultimate puff category: Outstanding Host For A Reality Competition Program And the nominees are: Ryan Seacrest – American Idol Tom Bergeron – Dancing With The Stars Howie Mandel -Deal …
That’s Nick Leeson the patron saint of idiot traders, who kept gambling until he bankrupted one of Europe’s oldest banking institutions, basically just to cover his constant and increasing incompetence. He makes the leaders of the subprime meltdown look like geniuses. But here’s the real issue you have to ask yourself, when you think of …
Curt Shilling just trashed him, but the Manny train continues to keep a rolling. No one understands him, no one deny’s that he is a hitting savant. Here’s an entertaining article called the Genius of Manny Ramirez and he’s not really being very ironic. Good quotes from Bill James and a variety of pitchers on the …
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As a point of honesty, I had never read a single word written by David Foster Wallace before he killed himself, I just have a thing for talented, successful people with issues. Especially, given that I’m definitely not successful, probably not that talented (if I could sleep one night out of three and had any interest in editing …
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When the 9-11 anniversary passed, I was going to write something to the effect of get over it, but I was too cowardly, because much like when Gilbert Gottfried got shot down with a “too soon” back at a roast of Hugh Hefner, people still go insane over this topic as if they’re entire family …
Back during the internet bubble I’d enjoy watching these old men on TV. They were old school economists and they’d be saying stuff like,”This doesn’t make sense. Stocks are supposed to trade for a multiple of their earnings — not their losses.”
