+ my new xm radio.
+ magic baseball.
+ staying in.
+ maintaining my caseload.
+ working my cases.
+ personality crimes.
+ national security misdemeanors.
+ vindictive summons trial bureau.
+ taking my mom out to lunch.
+ saturday errands with my father, including the polish bakery in his old neighborhood.
+ standing up for the midwest, the south, and the cities of baltimore and cleveland.
+ looking after the cats.
You don't break my stride.
Don't speak and/or write like you want to be in the New Yorker but suck. I "intensely dislike" that style.
I don't give a fuck about your skinhead pride and I couldn't care less about the lower east side.
The French Connection, Breathless, Ronin, The Conversation, L.A. Confidential, The Third Man, etc.
Baseball. I can watch any game, though I follow the Tribe, the O's, and the Mets.
Cavs basketball.
Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose."
Mortimer Adler's "Six Great Ideas."
The Wire. Homicide. The Shield. Deadwood.
Seinfeld. Friends.
Jim Lehrer NewsHour. Meet the Press. 60 Minutes. C-Span.
I have been reading a lot of nonfiction lately, mostly having to do with economics and sports and the economic analysis of sports, as well as economics and crime and the economic analysis of crime.
gombrowicz: cosmos.
solzhenitsyn: the gulag archipelago; the first circle; the cancer ward.
kafka: the trial.
new york penal law; new york criminal procedure law.
blogs: cato-at-liberty; firejoemorgan; deadspin; letsgotribe; cafehayek; dynamist; theagitator; marketcorrection; marginalrevolution; etc.
1986 Cleveland Browns.
1987 Cleveland Browns.
1988-89 Cleveland Cavaliers.
1989 Baltimore Orioles.
1991-92 Cleveland Cavaliers.
1995 Cleveland Indians.
1997 Cleveland Indians.
2005 Cleveland Indians.
I was torn when both the Orioles and Indians had great playoff teams in the middle to late 1990s.