Now that the Michael Vick episode seems temporarily superseded by the Petraeus Report, Senator Craig’s shoe dances and the despicable West Virginia torture party, I have a couple of thoughts.

The blacklash in support of Vick had just begun when current events became, well, current. They began with the NAACP and liberal columnists decrying the “volume” of negativity towards the Atlanta quarterback, as if acknowledging that while the music being played was crap the problem is that it’s too loud. One (white) columnist wrote that blacks think the outcry against Vick was “too much” and as white people we can’t appreciate how they feel with all these Caucasian-led networks and organizations vilifying Vick so strongly.

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Never forget, never forgive.

Rest in peace all you who died.

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The New, Improved Osama

The big news these past few days is Osama’s new look — a trimmer, darker beard, a few extra pounds, fewer circles under the eyes and, for as much as we can tell from the video, maybe even a few inches taller. He’s certainly more presentable, someone you wouldn’t be ashamed to walk into a Whole Foods with.

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As I’ll always remember him.

Time out for politics, rants and raves.

Another another light of beauty has gone out. Much will be written about him in the weeks following his death and there is little I can add except to express my own personal feelings about a voice we will never hear in person again.

In truth, that voice left him about fifteen years ago, but there was plenty left to sustain him, and us, during that time. Mostly with the Three Tenors and his scattered appearances in opera houses.

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Lots of interesting stuff in today’s Wall Street Journal.

CEO’s

The first item of interest is the Danish study indicating that a company’s profitability fell by an average of 20% in the two years after the death of its CEO’s child and by 15% after the death of the CEO’s wife. So it would seem that shareholders would be wise to keep tabs on the personal lives of the CEO’s running the companies in which they own stock. A death in the family, sell.

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