August 8th, 2013 → 6:36 am
“You base [baseball] player.” – King Lear
So I guess Alex Rodriguez was booed on Monday night, when he played for the New York Yankees despite an official suspension for doping. Why do they do it? Why do all these millionaire sports stars ruin the integrity of the game with artificial enhancers? I’ll never really quite understand it.
Filed under: Blog & Stupid/Evil People
August 6th, 2013 → 5:19 am
“To fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curled clouds.” – Tempest
I was having a great, exhilarating flying dream… If only I could return to it…
Filed under: Blog & Self/My Life
August 2nd, 2013 → 5:56 am
“Something wicked this way comes.” – Macbeth
I just read about the conviction of Wall Street insider “Fabulous Fab” Fabrice Tourre, for fraud in market activities related to mortgage-backed securities. Congrats SEC for getting a conviction on someone, anyone! However, I also learned that Tourre is now an economics student in the PhD program at Chicago. My reaction? “Nooooooo!” We economists have a bad enough reputation as it is (mostly from an ill-informed understanding of what we do, in my opinion, but still), like we need him as part of our gang too? “Nooooooo!”
Filed under: Blog & Economics/Money