A new Health Food?

This Runner's World article confirms what Gopher Girl learned long ago: Peanut butter is the perfect food. "Peanut butter-yes, that sticky companion to jelly on all those sandwiches your mom made-just might be the best runner's food on the planet."

Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter

This website is devoted to tracking the mortgage finance meltdown. Is this guy nothing more than a tool of the shorts? He might be, but it's still a good read with lots of good information.

The New Tycoons

This thought-provoking NY Times article exposes the 21st century robber barrons: “…[S]tarting in the late 1970s, as the constraints receded, new tycoons gradually emerged, and now their concentrated wealth has made the early years of the 21st century truly another Gilded Age. Only twice before over the last century has 5 percent of the national income gone to families in the upper one-one-hundredth of a percent of the income distribution — currently, the almost 15,000 families with incomes of $9.5 million or more a year, according to an analysis of tax returns by the economists Emmanuel Saez at the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics. Such concentration at the very top occurred in 1915 and 1916, as the Gilded Age was ending, and again briefly in the late 1920s, before the stock market crash. Now it is back…”

No One Likes a Neglected Blog...

And for that, I apologize. The good news is that Pat Neshek's nomination for the AL All-Star team motivated me to get off the couch and on to the computer. Click here to vote, and vote, and vote, and vote...for Pat.