Update

Gee, I see where only one member of the state Senate (or was it the House?) voted against cutting retirement health benefits for members of the state legislature. Ah, but let's rail against teachers and other public employees and their (as opposed to "there") benefits. The hypocrites!

And how can the new Detroit school czar be given any credibility? First, he's a career administrator. Second, the school district he came from had lousy results. Hey, in light of those, let's give him a huge salary!!!!! All right.

I think the AL umpire behind the plate last night was pretty lousy. If that television strike zone is at all accurate, he was missing badly, very badly. There were at least a half dozen key pitches Verlander threw for strikes that were called balls. And, a Tiger, I forget who, struck out on a pitch that was apparently 3" or 4" outside. The next guy was put in a hole by a "strike" that was even more inside than that. These umpires are supposed to be better than that. And, in the NY series, they seemed to miss a lot of low pitches.

I was surprised, but not surprised to find out this weekend that the NBA doesn't have a rule book! That's what I was told. How great? That lends credibility to my view that the NBA isn't too far removed from the WWF. So, guys can just make up the rules as they go along?

There is plenty of evidence that gov't involvement in business, industry, trade is bad news. If you want that evidence, look at gov't's attempts in the fur trade two hundred years ago. More recently, check gov't's role in the development of the first airplane. The solution to failure is just to throw more of other people's money at it. Again, to quote Casey Stengel, "You could look it up." That is, you could unless you don't want facts to get in the way....