Ricky Gervais has damn good taste

In today's Wall Street Journal, he lists his favorite TV comedies:

• Cheers
• The Simpsons
• Seinfeld
• The Larry Sanders Show
• Arrested Development

It's just really hard to argue with those. I might throw in a little MWC, or Taxi, but other than that, it's dead on.

Ripped From the Headlines of the WSJ:

"Wolfowitz skipped appearing at a health conference as the World Bank board considered how to deal with favors he did his girlfriend."

you just can't make headlines like that up.

Arbitrage!

Yesterday I spent 12 hours at the Gleacher Center doing work.

Highlights included:

• Watching a guy run into the bathroom at one point and vomit in the sink. Not exactly what you expect at an executive business school building
• Checking the score on the Yankees game. How ridiculous. For those who don't know, the Yankees were down 6-2 with 2 outs in the 9th before they rallied, culminating in a 3 run A-Rod homer to put them ahead 8-6. Fantastic.
• I bought a T-Shirt from the bookstore.
• I called Sports Authority to ask how many people worked in a typical store. This was after I called my friend Singer, who gave me the layman's answer (uhhh....there's a security guy working the door, a few jackass kids working in the sneaker department, some hotties behind the register, a hick or two in fishing and camping, etc.)
• I bought two individual Twix bars for 50 cents each...the double pack was being sold for $1.25. Of all the places in the world where I think it's a bad idea to have reverse economies of scale, I would have to put the GSB right near the top. People here try to arbitrage everything from bonds to gold bullion. The Twix has no chance.
• I walked home. It's like two and a half miles, but I couldn't catch a 151 bus for the life of me yesterday, and by the time I switched over to Clark Street trying to catch a 22, I was most of the way there already.
  

Today's Topic is...

Cheating:

Post-Easter stockpiling and confusion

Have the Cadbury Creme Eggs gotten smaller? Indeed, they have.

Priorities

What does it say about the nightly news when the lead story is about how the Cubs have been placed up for sale (complete with interviews with people on the street giving such insight as "By their record last year, they're not worth much"), which is then followed by Sam Zell to buy the Tribune company (which is why the Cubs are up for sale), and then the clips from opening day (Sox and Cubs), and THEN, oh yeah, in case the news forgot to mention, the Chicago Police Chief is retiring amidst a cloud of scandal?

my guess: College Basketball suX0|2