Two words: Rick Barry

The last time the Warriors won the NBA championship, their star was a guy with a hair weave who shot his free throws underhanded and made 90% of them. If the Warriors had made 90% of their free throws tonight, they would have beaten the Jazz, easily. Come on, you people! Skip the hair weaves, [...]

The Samoas are here

First four ingredients: sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, enriched flour, corn syrup. You don’t have to be a locavore to believe that’s nasty. But man it tastes good! Just one more, okay?

That other big media merger and what it means

Thomson Corp.’s plan to buy Reuters hasn’t gotten nearly the attention that Rupert Murdoch’s play for Dow Jones has. There are lots of good reasons for this: Thomson-Reuters is a (yawn) friendly deal, Reuters doesn’t posses the iconic status (at least not in the U.S.) of the Wall Street Journal, and David Thomson is no [...]

Pity the rich, for they are very wet

This is sort of shooting (exotic) fish in a barrel, but here’s a stray comment that recently showed up on my post from a few weeks back about Ari Fleischer’s ridiculous attempt to intimate that rich Americans are paying higher taxes than they did three decades ago (in fact their effective tax rates are down). [...]