The coolest trophy in sports, and the only one that seems to get regular use as an actual cup. When it is not floating in Mario Lemieux’s pool:
Archive for June, 2009
Lord Stanley
Posted in Hockey on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Society
Posted in Miscellaneous on June 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Rortybomb for finding this guy:
German Corporate Finance
Posted in Germany, Industrial Policy on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a little confused by the current goings-on in the Piech/Porsche family drama. As best as I can tell, Porsche has spent years operating as a hedge fund with a side business in sports cars. It has been on a creeping takeover of Volkswagen, and since mandatory takeover laws don’t seem to apply in Germany [...]
Health Care
Posted in Drugs, Health Care on June 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Health care reform is in the air, which means we have finally moved beyond the financial crisis and gotten to the heart of the Democrats’ campaign promises. Never mind that the financial situation is not much better than when we began; we have breathing room right now, let’s take it. With the possible exception of [...]
Retail Transparency
Posted in Miscellaneous on June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Apple iPhone 3GS (“S” for speed, although Apple doesn’t disclose a speed and the network is far more variable than the phone) was announced Monday, and with its launch came the annual discussion of the US mobile phone industry’s bizarre practices.
Italia
Posted in Italy on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Such wonderful food, such a beautiful country, such a peculiar place… Of course, if you’re a billionaire, why not?
Bait and Switch
Posted in Architecture on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember when Forest City Ratner was going to build a beautiful new arena in Brooklyn and move the Nets there? Beautiful Frank Gehry structure on top of the Atlantic Yards, supposed to create a long-overdue downtown? It would look like this:
Trek
Posted in Movies on June 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Finally got around to seeing the highly-rated new Star Trek movie in IMAX. Terrible movie. Spoilers, if such a thing is possible, to follow:
Heavenly Peace
Posted in China, Foreigners, North Korea, Politics on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Twenty years. What is hardest to remember is not that a powerful, nuclear-armed state felt so threatened by its own people that it used armor to crush dissent. Hell, the tanks would roll in central Moscow two years later. It is that at the time, it seemed so inevitable that the students would win.
Ambition
Posted in Inspirational, Miscellaneous, Movies on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over at the Idea Locker, Dodson asks whether “ambitious” is a compliment or an insult, and quotes Lyndon Johnson: Ambition is what makes a creature of a man. There are two models of success: James Bond and John McLane.
