because I can't stop poking at the wound...

An interesting article on the death of the Bear in Vanity Fair:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/bear_stearns200808

I especially like this description:
"At Phi Kappa Wall Street, most of the frat boys are instantly recognizable. There’s the big, backslapping Irishman, Merrill Lynch, the humorless grind, Goldman Sachs, and the straitlaced rich kid, Morgan Stanley. And then, off in the corner, wearing its beat-up leather jacket and nursing a cigarette, was the tough-guy loner, scrawny Bear Stearns, who disdained secret handshakes and towel snapping in favor of an extended middle finger toward pretty much everyone. Bear was bridge-and-tunnel and proud of it. Since the days when the Goldmans and Morgans cared mostly about hiring young men from the best families and schools, “the Bear,” as old-timers still call it, cared about one thing and one thing only: making money. Brooklyn, Queens, or Poughkeepsie; City College, Hofstra, or Ohio State; Jew or Gentile—it didn’t matter where you came from; if you could make money on the trading floor, Bear Stearns was the place for you. Its longtime chairman Alan “Ace” Greenberg even coined a name for his motley hires: P.S.D.’s, for poor, smart, and a deep desire to get rich."

But its over now {sob}. Wait a sec... I seem to have something in my eye. OK, I'll get over it enough to look up "Mametesque", from later in the article... (?)

And after 10 minutes of TGU/Squat press/Rear Posture Lunge:
2 sets of 6 completed, +4 TGUS, 15#dbs.