Beachcoming Bovines

Once in a while, and usually to everyone's delight, our neighbor's sheep and cows jump the fence for some déjeuner sur l'herbe on our front lawn.

After lunch, this pair, Bob and Ed, hit the beach.

Damon Runyon 5K at Yankee Stadium

Son Will, right, raced this morning in The Runyon 5K at Yankee stadium which raised money for cancer research. Will ran in memory of his grandfather who passed away last night from cancer.

JLR RIP

October 31, 1930 - August 17, 2013

BMW Drivers - The Ultimate Jerks?

As a male driver of a blue BMW 5 series, I question this "research." I wonder who sponsored it, Audi? ;-)



Postscript on August 17:

Excerpt below from today's Barrons. I guess Audi isn't to blame. And the inclusion of Toyota Pious owners reflects my personal experience.

"A study published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences that swept through the media last week found that, last year, drivers of fancy autos were the worst in their road manners, being less likely to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk or more likely to cut in front of other drivers at a four-way stop at an intersection. "BMW drivers were the worst," Paul K. Piff, a researcher at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California at Berkeley, who conducted the study of 152 drivers in California, told the New York Times. But drivers of the ever-so-socially conscious Toyota Prius hybrids also were more likely to commit "infractions," he added.

"This tendency doesn't seem unique to BMW drivers in California or the U.S., for that matter. The U.K.'s Daily Mail reports that the vehicles with the highest incidences of road rage were BMWs, followed closely by Land Rovers and Audis, according to a study of 2,837 motorists by an outfit called VoucherCodesPro. The worst culprits were men 35 to 50 years old who drove blue Bimmers on Fridays around 5:45 p.m. "

A-Rod Agonistes

Suspended for 211 games. And yet, as said on Twitter last night, "A-Rod's playing third, batting fourth and taking the fifth."