Whipped Cream Difficulties

Busy having fun today. More later.

In the meantime, have this NYT article about the disaster area the Jets have become:

Of course, trading Revis makes it much more difficult to imagine a Jets future that includes Ryan. It doesn’t say much good about a franchise that it can be forced by circumstances of its own creation to trade its best player. The Jets have been so mismanaged, so hamstrung by their own misguided talent evaluations and bad accounting, this was the only correct move in what is now a down-to-the-studs rebuilding.

And this breakfast interview with one of my heros, Ricky Jay.

“The standard con man’s line is you can only con someone with larceny in their heart,” Mr. Jay replied. “I can show you 800 ways in which that’s not true, but it’s what every con man will say. Certainly it is true to some extent. I mean, you’re promising people unbelievable returns. Anybody with a brain would be suspicious. Anybody with greed as their motivator wouldn’t care.”

There’s a common variant on that saying: “You can’t cheat a honest person.” I often respond to that by bringing up the bank examiner scam, which works because it targets people’s honesty (and desire to help “law enforcement” catch “bad guys”). But it is nice to see Jay make the same point…