Today is INDY 500 day! Enjoy the show.

This is too funny. Here you go all you baseball fans...Leo Durocher and Herman Munster.

A teachable Dragnet moment.

Which is it going to be?

Damn the torpedos, full steam ahead!

Nausea from my world...

A student recently commented anonymously in my evaluations for a class I taught this past spring on MACROECON 101: "He knows so much about this subject that he is forcing us to learn so much more than the other sections of the same course, and we are suffering."

So, learning = suffering. I don't really know how to respond to that except to ask...Dude, how far in life do you think you are going to get when your main concern is not how much you are learning but rather how much you are doing compared to others? Equality is murdering excellence everywhere in our world. Especially in the minds of our young.

Bob Dillion is 67 today.

Any takers?

I love jokes and I love horses. And I really love jokes with horses! Note Sandy Koufax and Leo Durocher!

Goose hunting in Louisiana...they were delicious!

Right on.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559004575256843791551332.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop

Some good news.

http://online.wsj.com/video/how-about-a-good-catholic-story/FC081A39-5477-40A2-A16B-28718A915004.html?mod=WSJ_Article_Videocarousel_1

North Korea...God help us.

Joe Cocker turns 66 today. All you young kids...here is the Woodstock generation.

You gotta love this guy.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703745904575248661121721980.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_t

This guy is now like Krauthammer...read him and you know what to think.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703339304575240591350076252.html

Makes me want to go out and get one too!

This is worth another look.

Foreclosure causes terrorism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703961104575226461220844110.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion

Paul Lynde and Dean Martin. For my generation, these Roasts are priceless!

$5 trillion in government guarantees...and you wonder what the problem was or where it started?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703961104575226192386797952.html

Ricardo Caballero and "Sudden Financial Arrest". I know it is long but it is a must read.

http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/4905

Lessons from the Great Depression.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/events/conferences/lessons/papers/

Here is a series of papers from a recent Conference in the UK at the University of Warwick regarding current policy lessons from the Great Depression. All are on the top of my reading list.

There are no atheists in fox holes.

Any Questions?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703961104575226651125226596.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop

Folk wisdom from Larry the Cable Guy.

So says Larry:

"Even after the recent Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying with bad jokes that Cajuns aren't smart.
I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city 5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats is a damn genius."

More fuzzy math from government green eye shades.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/23/general-motors-economy-bailout-opinions-columnists-shikha-dalmia_print.html

Read the following. Greece's government spending is over 50% of GDP. And you wonder what the problem could possibly be?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224171633052414.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop

When the unthinkable becomes "thinkable".

Tip o' the hat to Dr. Rothman for sending this:


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/how-reversible-is-the-euro/?src=twr

This guy just plain makes sense.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703871904575216633061219378.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion

This is the union of time and art. The photographic technology is amazing. Catching up after the Derby. Let's watch one more time.

Oh my God! Hit the button!

Race Track Humor....

A group of second and third graders, accompanied by two female teachers, went on a field trip to the local racetrack to learn about thoroughbred horses. When it was time to take the children to the bathroom, the girls were instructed to go with one teacher and the boys with the other.
The teacher assigned to the boys was waiting outside the Men's room when one of the boys came out and told her that none of them could reach the urinal. Having no choice, she went inside, helped the boys with their pants, and began hoisting them up one by one above the urinal.
As she lifted one the last one, she couldn't help but notice that he was... unusually healthy. Trying not to show that she was staring, the teacher said, "You must be in the third grade."

"No, ma'am, " he replied. "I'm the jockey riding Silver Bullet in the seventh."