Lakers Win Again - Riots Begin - Welcome to Los Angeles

WTF is wrong with the men in this city?
After the Lakers pull off a spectacular win against the Celtics
this is what we get and we are the city with the winning team

note the flag being carried by these hooligans

and is this car storm really necessary?
(notice the lack of female involvement)

For the record, in spite of the fact that I've mocked him in the past, I am totally on team Kobe.

but I still have nothing good to say about Tiger and feel sorry for his love child by his porn star

When I was a child we had sports stars that we could look up to like Arthur Ashe.

Now, we professional athletes who can't keep it in their pants.

We live in a world of extremes, where men have either been emasculated or have become hyper male.

With my inner Trad coming out I wonder, what happened to the gentleman

and to the philosophy and practice of good sportsmanship?

Will we ever have another John Wooden?

The "L" Word - In Consideration

There is a woman that I know who says the words "I love you", in a deep emotive voice, countless times during the day. It seems that every time that she says "thank you" it is followed by an "I love you". For her, there is some emotional and verbal connection between an expression of appreciation and an expression of love.

And, it isn't just to her family that she says these words, it is to her friends, her colleagues, her clients, the guy who details her car, the guy who delivers her lunch...on and on ad nauseam.
For some reason I find this really annoying.

I wonder if it is a cultural, religious or generational thing? I was raised in an all American WASP (low not high) environment she was raised in a Persian Jewish environment...and she is a little younger than I am. But I suspect that it is neither cultural nor religious nor generational. I believe that she just developed this specific personality trait on her own in order to strengthen existing relationships and create social alliances.

It is probably strange that I don't have any recollection of my parents telling me that they love me, although I know that they do...and honestly I don't really even tell my children very often that I love them, although I most certainly do. My family is just not verbally emotive in that way...and we're fine with it.

When I consider the total number of people that I love, it comes down to my children, my parents and stepparents, my brothers and a very few selected friends....and that is it. I don't feel compelled to love everyone I deal with...or even like them for that matter. But I do feel compelled to be kind and polite.

If you tell everyone from your husband to the guy that details your car that you love them, doesn't it just diminish any real significance of the words?

Does this over emotiveness annoy anyone else besides me?

Least Influential List of 2010

I am cracking up over this list from Time.com
Here are a few of the entries

Dmitri Medvedev President of Russia
Yeah, sure he is.

Giorgio Napolitano President of Italy
He makes decisions, and Silvio Berlusconi ignores them. It's pretty funny.

Toll Brothers Homebuilders
That was a lot of McMansions you built. You'll totally get a segment on I Love the 2000s.

Greece
European country Hairy-chested, aggressive with women, charmingly backward — you briefly charmed us with that big, fat wedding. Then you spent so much more money than you made, you forced the E.U. to bail you out. It will be a long time before we watch a movie about you again.

Dick Fuld
The last CEO of Lehman Brothers ever That has to be hard to explain on a résumé.

Happy Friday