Sunday, December 27, 2009
The devil made him do it
Some more quick-hit items on this long holiday weekend:
-- Doug Glanville explains why Tiger and other millionaire athletes so often give into temptation: "(Tiger) has proven to be just like every other figure who fell for the little guy with the pitchfork on his shoulder telling him, 'It’s all good, no one will know, you can get away with it.'” ...
I forget where I heard it, but a caller on a sports-radio show summed it up this way: You are a typical guy, married, two children, but struggling like everyone else to get by. Someone offers to give you $1 billion. But it comes with a hitch: Women will be throwing themselves at you. The odds of giving into temptation are about 20 percent. Question: Do you still take the money? Quick. Decision time. ... Now adjust the risk factor. At what point does that little guy on the shoulder sound louder or softer? ... Switch the gender roles. Doesn't matter. The temptations are still there. The test isn't about exonerating Tiger. It's more about admitting we all have that little guy sitting on our shoulder.
-- Investigative journalism at its finest: Someone had to do it.
-- Hmmm. Father warns the U.S. embassy that his son has become a radicalized Islamist. The son is put on a terrorist watch list. A month later he tries to blow up a plane. Two things jump to mind: 1.) The preliminary watch-list system needs, um, work. 2.) Pre-boarding searches have to be more extensive if we're going to catch future in-flight suicide bombers. But that leads to privacy issues. ... Once again, it comes down to weighing risk options.
-- Bill Daley: "The leaders of the Democratic Party need to move back toward the center." ... They've misread why they were elected. It wasn't because of their moonbat ideas. It was to get rid of Republicans who screwed up two wars and an economy. ... More from David Broder.
-- Paul Krugman: "The truth is that there isn’t a Congressional majority in favor of anything like single-payer (health care)." Now he tells us.
-- Jeff: What's up with Garrison Keillor? I was wondering the same thing.
Some more quick-hit items on this long holiday weekend:
-- Doug Glanville explains why Tiger and other millionaire athletes so often give into temptation: "(Tiger) has proven to be just like every other figure who fell for the little guy with the pitchfork on his shoulder telling him, 'It’s all good, no one will know, you can get away with it.'” ...
I forget where I heard it, but a caller on a sports-radio show summed it up this way: You are a typical guy, married, two children, but struggling like everyone else to get by. Someone offers to give you $1 billion. But it comes with a hitch: Women will be throwing themselves at you. The odds of giving into temptation are about 20 percent. Question: Do you still take the money? Quick. Decision time. ... Now adjust the risk factor. At what point does that little guy on the shoulder sound louder or softer? ... Switch the gender roles. Doesn't matter. The temptations are still there. The test isn't about exonerating Tiger. It's more about admitting we all have that little guy sitting on our shoulder.
-- Investigative journalism at its finest: Someone had to do it.
-- Hmmm. Father warns the U.S. embassy that his son has become a radicalized Islamist. The son is put on a terrorist watch list. A month later he tries to blow up a plane. Two things jump to mind: 1.) The preliminary watch-list system needs, um, work. 2.) Pre-boarding searches have to be more extensive if we're going to catch future in-flight suicide bombers. But that leads to privacy issues. ... Once again, it comes down to weighing risk options.
-- Bill Daley: "The leaders of the Democratic Party need to move back toward the center." ... They've misread why they were elected. It wasn't because of their moonbat ideas. It was to get rid of Republicans who screwed up two wars and an economy. ... More from David Broder.
-- Paul Krugman: "The truth is that there isn’t a Congressional majority in favor of anything like single-payer (health care)." Now he tells us.
-- Jeff: What's up with Garrison Keillor? I was wondering the same thing.
