Monday Musings

• Poorly Written Headline of the Day (from Yahoo): "NY building collapses after apparent suicide bid". One has to wonder what would drive a poor building to try and kill itself. Whatever the reason it was apparently very tired after the attempt.
• Zidane will now be known as a butt head as a result of his head butt. Already, the French are calling him "Derriere-Tete Zizou" ("Butt head Zizou"; Zizou is the nickname his formerly adoring fans have given him). Visit his site at http://www.zidane.fr/homepage.html and read how Jacques Chirac has sweetly forgiven him.
• Is it an auspicious start to your day when you arrive at the subway to find that trains are slowed due to "an investigation"? That's actually NewYork subway talk for "there's a stiff on the tracks". As we're riding along, I hear one of the conductors (drivers? Whatever the guys other than the one in the lead car are called on the subway) say "Slow down, I want to see it". We get to the spot and he YELLS, "Oh, SHIT". I can only see a bevy of Firemen and railworkers peering down onto the other track, but the cops that happened to be on my train looked out the window and laughingly noted that the person was "crispy". Good news: still made it to work early. Important safety tip, kids: they're RIGHT about that third rail thing.
• Perhaps we should have Vladimir Putin searching for Bin Ladin? Seems that he can find the really bad guys and eliminate them when it counts.
• New York women are considering changing the Home Run Derby at the All Star Game to the "Let David Wright Get To Any Base He Wants" Derby.