- Well! Madness at the Fun Factory distracting me from any kind of diversions the past week. But it's only fair to give mega-kudos to the Celtics for blasting the Lakers back to the West coast. It wasn't even close. The saddest thing was to see LA basically throw in the towel in that second half Tuesday night. Boston was the better team. The East was best.
- Celtics cheerleader Alexis is happy about it.
- On to the market... It's options week, and you know what that means! According to my playbook, it should be a positive sort of thing. Down a little over a percent on the SP500 so far. The gloom and doom is thick in the air. Everyone is hanging on oil prices these days.
- It used to be a bad saying to say "You're getting a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking." But as a commodity, it's on fire! Maybe coal will be the "in" gift this holiday season.
- John McCain calls for 45 new nuclear power plants by 2030. I think that's a start. Glad to hear somebody say it. That's the one issue I've been waiting to hear somebody, anybody, bring up. We need an alternative to burning fossil fuels.
- I was thinking about getting a hybrid car. But now this has me worried. It turns out hybrid owners are trading in their vehicles. Why? Health fears concerning electromagnetic fields created by the hybrid batteries, says John Dale Dunn, a policy advisor for the American Council on Science and Health.
- It only took about 30 hours after the end of the NBA Finals for my coworkers to bring up the NFL and Fantasy Football. The wait begins. In the meantime, time to start digging into the NFL news to see what players got traded, drafted, retired, or incarcerated since last season.
