Sports…“…there is an event about to take
place (one of the rarest in all sports) which has not happened since 1967: a
winner of the baseball Triple Crown which means leading the league in batting
average, Runs Batted In, and home-runs. The 3rd baseman of the
Detroit Tigers, Miguel Cabrera, is about to achieve that…” And he did it! Continuing with
baseball, the team from Atlanta will be renamed, from Braves (they don’t
deserve that name) to Wannabes; they
just don’t – uh – amount to anything… Oh, and the fans were very classy,
indeed, with the show they put on at the end of the game, pouting and littering
the field… Moving on, so far the Divisional Series, both leagues, have been
great! Football: Dolphins finally won; Eli and the Giants were something else
(Bucs and Lions did not play); good game last night between Saints and Chargers…
Some last words: GO GATORS, baby!
Politics… If you ever hear me talking about political
analysis again just shoot me! Here are the points I thought were mandatory to
talk about in this first presidential debate, and I was sure (I would have bet
the house on it!) somebody would bring them up:
·
Foreign
Affairs (The Libya debacle – isolated incident or the real status?)
·
The economy
(are we better off?)
·
The 47% (what
precisely is the meaning/concept here?)
·
Health Care (Obamacare vs. Romneycare –
differences and similarities)
·
Immigration
Reform
·
Tax Code reform
(or lack of disclosure of tax returns)
·
Gay rights
·
Birth control
Only three, the ones
highlighted, were brought up by the contenders or the moderator (was there
really one?), and two of them only partially… Oh well. That ought to tell you
something about my political analysis prowess…
Here are some
political quotes from this past week:
From the Obama side:
“Are we better off today than four years
ago? You bet! This guy took over as Captain of the Titanic after it had
hit the iceberg and we are not only still afloat but are gaining steam!”
From the Romney side: “Obama spent the first two years of his
term, when he had a blank check (a Democrat congress), pushing Obamacare down
people’s throats. If he really cared so much about the middle class, why didn't he push
for jobs?”
Trivia… Did you know that the only
two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, MLS, NBA,
NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-stars
Game?
Food
for thought…
“If we consistently act on the
optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by
acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit
of want.”
- John
Maynard Keynes
(From
'Essays in Persuasion')
So, stay/think/act
positive, my friends…
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