Looks like a cross between Penn Station and the Skydome, with some Stamford Town Center thrown in. http://curbed.com/archives/2008/03/25/glam_slam_yankees_show_off_new_stadiums_bling.php?o=0 For all the money in NY, I would have hoped someone could build a decent-looking structure; unfortunately, it seems HOK ran out of good retro ideas when they built PacBell and PNC and ever since has just [...]
Archive for March, 2008
New Yankee
Posted in Architecture, Baseball, Sports on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Click
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A baseball player is supposed to hit a ball moving 95 mph, quite possibly towards his head, while someone who has had a few too many in the fourth row talks about what he did with the player’s mom, sister, three dwarves and a goat. The finest golfer in the history of the sport can’t [...]
Still Going
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Politics on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Really, really doesn’t want to come clean about this one: http://www.attytood.com/2008/03/exclusive_clinton_acknowledges.html “Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke — I didn’t say that in [...]
What?
Posted in Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Politics, Television on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The president carries the biggest burden, obviously,” Cheney said. “He’s the one who has to make the decision to commit young Americans, but we are fortunate to have a group of men and women, the all-volunteer force, who voluntarily put on the uniform and go in harm’s way for the rest of us.” What an [...]
Not Surprising
Posted in Finance on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unless you really believe a banking system that cannot value its mortgage-backed securities to the nearest hundred billion or an intelligence system that cannot find Osama bin Laden after seven years or a government that could not get aid to New Orleans for a week is actively able to trace a few thousand dollars of [...]
Negative Ad II
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Politics on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And who knew Sinbad was funny? That’s the star of Houseguest you’re talking about. Rather than admit foggy recollection (you know, I made four stops that day, people told me there might be snipers, you hear all sorts of weird noises in cargo planes), Hillary has offered a detailed expansion of her memories of the [...]
Negative Ad
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Television, Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know O’Bama has to be Mr. Positivity, but this is really calling for a good negative ad, especially given how much she has harped on her heroism: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/hillarys_balkan_adventures_par.html And who knew Sinbad would come to be the responsible voice of memory in the election. Almost as weird as the entire baseball steroids issue being [...]
Science, Military, Girls
Posted in Dana Perino, Military, Politics on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In her defense, she is cute for an Administration hack…and, given the accomplishments of the rest of the team, potentially no dumber than the others: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/16/perino-men-know-more-about-war-by-osmosis/
Only Person Who Agrees With Me
Posted in Finance on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Accomplished investor. Completely crazy, too: http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vpsp3dpnTUuA.asf
More Bear Stearns
Posted in Finance on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The WSJ said that Fuld cut short his vacation to India (– was it really a vacation?). How deep do you think Lehman is in? I don’t understand the prime brokerage world much, but I understand that Bear was seen as a 3-legged stool: fixed income, prime brokerage, and money management. I’m still not clear [...]
