Idle speculation about Time's Square bomb

I think that the terrorist was trying to transport bomb making materials when something went wrong. He stopped the SUV, turned on the hazard lights through shear force of habit, and fled.

There was a man seen running from the scene. Why would he run if he knew he enough time to get away? Also, two clocks were found in the truck. This suggests that he intended to make more than one bomb.

It happened less than 24 hours ago. Let's see if I'm right.

Baseball season

Baseball is about tradition. I like teams that stay in the same venue. Over the past century, nations have risen and fallen, football's rules have evolved, and yet the Cubs remain at Wrigley Field.

Drive past the local ballpark around here, and you see a mutant apple logo on a animated billboard that's larger than my car. If I wanted electronic splash and dash, I'd stay home and play video games.

Come to think of it, electronic splash and dash is exactly what I want. So I will stay home and play Modern Warfare 2, which I would imagine is more fun and less expensive than a real war.

The ads for the local team say "Play Downtown." Unless they are holding tryouts for the team, this is misleading. They should say "Sit On Your Fat Ass And Watch Other People Play Downtown."

YUCK!

I saw a slogan on a package of Charmin toilet paper that said "Durable and Long Lasting". Do they expect me to reuse the stuff?

The "joke" that you hear every winter.

Every goddamn year when there's a blizzard, you arrive at work, the grocery store, a friend's house, etc, and some moron will say "Did you bring this snow with you?" Which leads me to one of three conclusions:
1. The person actually wants to know if I am physically capable of causing precipitation to follow me around.
2. The person thinks that I have never heard it before, and that I'm immature enough to find it funny.
3. The person is trying to piss me off.
In most cases, the third possibility seems the most likely. I hear the joke so much that I doubt there is a single person over the age of six in Fort Wayne who has not been asked "Did you bring this snow with you?"

Comedy is like flying an airplane. You really shouldn't try it unless you are confident that you know how to it.

A blog that regular readers of this blog might like.

After having worked for the Social Security Administration since 1970, I retired on January 2, 2009. Anyone who has worked for a government agency that long and hasn't turned libertarian either hasn't been paying attention or doesn't care.

This fellow has been a huge influence on me.

Thought of the day

If an elected official thinks he knows whats best for the banking industry, (or any other industry) then he can best serve the economy, the public good, and even his own interests by resigning from office and pursuing a career in that industry. No doubt that a bank would perform more ethically if not more profitably if it had Barney Frank as a CEO.

Ben Bernanke, Time's Man of the Year

I got a chuckle out of what somebody put in the Wikipedia article about Time's Person of the Year issue. Here's the quote because I'm sure they'll take it down soon.

Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people.[5] However Time magazine points out those such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, and Joseph Stalin in 1939 and again in 1942, and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, and Ben Bernanke in 2009 have also been granted the title.

However, I think that it is highly unfair to compare these men to Ben Bernanke. Hitler, Stalin, and Khomeini all knew what they were doing, and were all more popular when they made the cover of Time.