Sorry for the lack of postings this week. Between work and appointments of all kinds the week just got away from me. But the world didn’t stop spinning, so here are a few odd and ends worth posting about.

Yep, we got that storm that made the news. We didn’t the big winds that toppled poles and raised all kinds of havoc at the airport and to the north and west of it, but we sure got the rain. Here’s a picture of what the sky looked like in Phoenix as the storm approached. I was finishing up errands and the sky opened up with a muddy rain less than ten minutes later:

How would you like to be a homeowner living in Ferguson, MO right now? Can you spell d-e-p-r-e-c-i-a-t-i-o-n? But this is the problem now with the media and social media – whereas just a decade ago the police and local authorities might be able to contain and control the response to the Michael Brown incident at the local level, now you’ve got the media and attention-hound activists – and, one might argue the President of the United States – making the situation worse. And the sad things is, things are probably going to get a whole lot worse in Ferguson before they get better.

I dunno, a Muslim guy shouting stuff in Arabic as he stabs folks and beheads a woman sure sounds like an act of terror to me. But I guarantee you that to the Obama administration and liberals who simply can’t fathom the idea that true Muslims are anything but kind and peaceful folk this will go down as just another act of workplace violence.

I feel bad for the folks in Hong Kong, but I don’t see a lot of hope in their cause. The Brits should never have left.

Thankfully the Red Sox season is finally over, and with it Derek Jeter’s season-long ride into retirement. Look, I’ve always respected the guy, and were I starting up my own baseball team I would have chosen him first during the majority of the time he played. And yes, that winning RBI single on Friday night at his last at-bat in Yankee Stadium was truly one for the ages. But, like most things New York and the Yankees, it just got too over the top for me. So here’s looking forward to an active off-season for the Red Sox and the hope that neither Will Middlebrooks or Clay Buchholz are around come Opening Day 2015.

…and while I’m on the Red Sox, I hope the same holds true for NESN color commentator Jerry Remy. The off-the-field family stuff aside, I just think his act has grown stale and it’s time for some new and younger blood in the broadcast booth.