Boston has riskiest housing market

Let me just take the wind out of your sails. Cleveland sports suck right now. That being said, Boston leads the list of riskiest housing markets according to the PMI Group, a residential mortgage insurer.

Indians Trade Jody Gerut to Cubs

As much as I like Jody Gerut, I am cool with this trade. This is far different than the trades that the Indians pulled off in the 90’s (Brian Giles, Shawn Casey, Richie Sexson, etc) where I think the Indians were giving up good young talent for a more experienced player to help right away. Gerut is a decent player (batting .275 right now) but he is an odd man out on the major league roster, so it is good that they are going after a young right-handed hitter, which they got from the Cubs in Jason Dubois.

It’s a gamble, but then again, most trades are. At least the Indians aren’t buying up huge contracts of aging veterans like the Yankees. How is Randy Johnson anyway?

Malcolm in the Myspace

It appears as if Fox has bought up Myspace. I am not sure what they aim to do with it, but let’s hope it doesn’t exceed past using it as a marketing outlet. I am sure the advertising revenue is decent on Myspace, but I think the access to all those kids in that age group is really what the value is.

Fidelity Probe Targets Lavish Party

“Some people are just into lavish dwarf entertainment,” says the 4-foot-2 Danny Black, a part-owner in Shortdwarf.com, an outfit that rents dwarfs for parties starting at $149 an hour. Mr. Black says he spent part of the weekend on the yacht and worked as a waiter on the Friday night at a high-end Miami eatery alongside what he called “regular size” people. “A good time was had by all,” he said, declining to provide further details.

Terrorist Lyrics get Rapper Fired From Day Job

Go read what this dude was rapping about. Freedom of speech doesn’t apply here. This is clearly a conflict with his current job and he should have been fired. It is too bad he wasn’t screened out in the first place.

Freakonomics

I am in Chicago this weekend and on the way here, I listened to the audiobook of Freakonomics. It is fascinating. You ought to check it out if you get the chance. My favorite question: “If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers?”

2nd favorite question: “Why did the crime rate drop in the late 90’s even though it was predicted to sky-rocket?”

They stay rather apolitical in this book, but you might not think quite so much of Rudy Giuliani after reading this book.

Cause and effect are not all that they seem.

Falling Hottie (NSFW)

Make sure you click this at some point. I am not sure what the hell it is, or why someone created it, but it is at least a pretty interesting test of gravity. Make sure you grab her and throw her when she gets stuck.

Everything in Napolean Dynamite is a Catch-phrase (apparently)

This was one of my favorite lines from the movie, but I don’t think it holds up nearly as well on a t-shirt.

When Served Lemons, Make Lemonade

If you break into a local improv comedy theater in Cleveland and make off with the money, but are on their closed-circuit TV system, expect to be described in the following manner.

…Jim Fath describes the suspects as two men — one thin, one fat. “Like Laurel and Hardy,” he says, “but black and not funny.”

The suspects pictures will be printed on fliers and t-shirts shortly. No. Seriously.

Update: After searching my brain for a bit, I conclude that the suspects were the two stars of Phat Beach.

Bernard Ebbers got off Light

Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years for the corporate fraud he committed at WorldCom.

The unusually harsh prison term is part of a string of penalties against corporate executives who defrauded investors in recent years. It eclipsed the 15-year sentence given last month to Rigas, the founder of Adelphia who is 80 and in frail health

Unusually harsh? Between Worldcom and Enron, how many dollars were lost? How many additional dollars are being lost in order to attempt (being the operative word) Sarbanes-Oxley compliance? Someone can get life in prison for pre-meditated murder. I could make an argument, based on the scope of damages that Ebbers caused, that his damages are much greater than if he had just murdered a couple people.

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