Fiscal Responsibility

It’s hard for us to be rational about Derek Jeter.  By “us” I don’t exclusively mean just Yankee fans, either.  The New York media (coupled with a healthy heaping of ESPN) has gone above and beyond, making Jeter into a paragon of all things good and holy on the diamond and off, while simultaneously driving every Yankee hater to put him in the same category as Stalin (thereby making A-Rod a natural Trotsky).

Opinion on him has become as polarized as a debate on national health care.  The people who defend him go over the top because the detractors are so wildly irrational.  This cycle builds and builds until we can’t separate the legend from the facts.  Somehow, he is “one of the greatest Yankees of all time” and the “most overrated player in the history of baseball” at the same time.  In the middle of that stark dichotomy sits Jeter, the 37-year-old shortstop, a character we seemingly know nothing about.

W’s Memoirs

There has been a lot of press surrounding the recent publishing of former president George W. Bush’s memoirs, entitled “Decision Points.”  But while we have heard a lot about his heartache as caused by being pegged as a racist by Kanye West, not much about the memoir itself has been discussed.  With that in mind, I contacted the publisher and inquired if I could post some excerpts for my audience.  They obliged, even allowing me to put up full chapters.  Which isn’t too difficult, as the entire thing is a picture book.