Andrea's Photo Blog
Andrea has the best blog. Every once in awhile when I get bored or depressed I click on her blog (it's in my blog roll - the sidebar) and it never fails to cheer me up. The dog photos are the best.

11:16:40 PM      trackback [] 

Bronx Bombers lose says NY Post headline
Atrios posted this link. See the rest of The Smoking Gun's story here.

It's not exactly "Dewey Defeats Truman," but the New York Post made a colossal error today on its editorial page. The paper somehow printed an editorial bemoaning last night's Yankees loss to the Boston Red Sox...

Gotta love it.

1:19:07 PM      trackback [] 

Tall people make big money

The Journal of Applied Psychology says “Tall people earn considerably more money throughout their lives than their shorter co-workers, with each inch adding about $789 a year in pay.”

Did I mention that I’m 5’10”? Hell, I'm goin' shoe shopping!

12:40:56 PM      trackback [] 

On Listening

Thomas L. Friedman has a good column in yesterday’s NY Times about the failure of “this ingrown administration” to listen to anyone who disagrees with them and what that’s cost them – and us. He says that learning to listen is the way to muster support:

To begin with, listening might actually force the Bush team to frame its vision of U.S. foreign policy and its rationale for the Iraq war on our hopes for the world, not just our fears of it. Every other word out of this administration's mouth now is "terror" or "terrorism." We have stopped exporting hope, the most important commodity America has. We now export only fear, so we end up importing everyone else's fears right back.

My one quibble with the article is Friedman’s point that "thankfully" the Bush administration is listening to Iraq’s “silent majority”: “Ironically, Iraq is the one place in the world where the Bush team has chosen not to become obsessed with terrorists.” Well, duh. They’re fully capable of hearing what they want to hear, and focusing on what they want to see.

10:31:04 AM      trackback [] 

Doing Little
If you want to read about how Grady lost the game last night by leaving Pedro in too long, there are plenty of analysts writing about it: The Washington Post, ESPN, and the Boston Globe just to name a few. Personally, I can't rehash it anymore. After the Yankees tied it in the 8th and the Sox were unable to score off of Rivera in the 9th, I went to bed. It was either going to be like Christmas this morning when I woke up or just another day. Back to the grind.

8:59:57 AM      trackback []