If the music is too loud, you're too old.

We have a problem.
(Do I say, "click to enlarge?")

I heard today that UPS employs four times as many people as GM and Ford combined. The guy who cited that statistic was making the case that interceding to save those two companies isn't the necessary thing most people may think it is. He also pointed out that there are other car manufacturers with plants here that are making money with their U.S. operations. Should we bail out poorly run businesses or let the harsh Darwinian forces of the free market do their work?

Unless you put your name at the end of a comment to one of my posts, or are also using Blogger.com, I just get "anonymous" as the one leaving the comment.
So, to "anonymous," you are correct. The movie Pretty Woman is one of the contemporary settings for the play Pygmalion. The stage version is the musical My Fair Lady.
You said that Pretty Woman was one of your favorite movies, which is how I knew "anonymous" was you, Jason.

Next question: Name the contemporary big screen version of the classic Robinson Crusoe. Hint: the movie employed a most imaginative parallel to Friday.

If there are any day traders left out there they have to be pretty much babbling idiots by now.

Here in AZ last week we passed a proposition which defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. One of the arguments for passage stated that changing the state constitution to define marriage in that way would prevent an activist judge from issuing a ruling that would allow for gay marriages. The opponents of the proposition said that would not happen and the change to the constitution was unnecessary.
Coincidentally, that's exactly what happened Wednesday in Connecticut; in the absence of a constitutional guideline, a judge declared the state law prohibiting gay marriages unconstitutional. Within minutes a county clerk there issued the first marriage license to a gay couple.
California passed a proposition very similar to AZ's. That state's large and vocal gay community has organized fairly large protests and is working on a legal challenge to the will of the majority. Worth watching.

Thanksgiving Day is two weeks away, which means the triathlon is two weeks away. This is that window of time when training efforts have limited value. You can't realize significant improvements in segment times in these last 10 or 11 days of training; the time for that kind of progress is past. But you also dare not slack off this long before the event because you can lose ground. Keep the training up, try to squeeze out a little bit of improvement, and work on things like transitions, hydration methods and clothing. Don't get too aggressive with the workouts and risk injury days before the event.
And try not to let the building anticipation get the best of you, lest by race day you are so tense that you drown 50 meters from the finish line.

Curt Warner for MVP, Wisenhunt for Coach of the Year. You heard it right here.