So my buddy Tom Wolf has a new blog. That's not Tom Wolfe (with an "e") the author, but Tom Wolf (no "e", like the animal) the intellectual historian, high-jumper, Marshall scholar and Hiop Hop connoisseur. He writes about rap and Harvard with the same incisive wit. Check it out here.

So I have a problem with the hit show Grey's Anatomy. No, I'm not talking about the fact that Sandra Oh is thoroughly unattractive. That's realistic. I'm talking about the fact that the show is unrealistic. Completely and utterly unrealistic. And no, I'm not referring to the medical situations. I don't know balls about that shit. Nor am I referring to the fraternizing between doctors and interns. Whatever, that makes for good TV. Here's my problem. Let's take a brief look at the cast of characters:

• Dr. Meredith Grey
• Dr. Cristina Yang
• Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens
• Dr. Alex Karev
• Dr. George O'Malley
• Dr. Miranda Bailey
• Dr. Richard Webber
• Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery-Shepherd
• Dr. Calliope "Callie" Torres
• Dr. Preston Xavier Burke
• Dr. Derek Shepherd

Now, let's take a look at an actual, real life staff of Seattle hospital, where the show is supposed to take place. Let's try Seattle's Northwest Hospital. Here's the hospital's website. Now, as I understand it, the show involves mostly surgeons, so I'm go to list the names of some of the surgeons that I've discovered at Northwest Hospital.

Dr. Rodney Kratz
Dr. Alan Langman
Dr. Steve Klein
Dr. Daniel Lazar
Dr. Joel Shapiro

This is just a short list, and no I did not select the names at random. But what you see here is obvious. Grey's Anatomy is a show about doctors. DOCTORS! And it takes place in Seattle, a major North American city. Yet not one of the cast members is clearly a Yid. This is not just a statistical impossibility. This is outrageous. I guarantee if you look at the doctors at any major hospital in any major North American city, they will be filled with juden. Filled. Maybe not as much as a decade ago, as we see more and more Asian doctors today. But seriously, none? How can Grace Hospital (how appropriately named) be Judenrein? There is no such hospital in America. I bet even in Boise, each hospital at least has one Jewish doctor.

A quick wikipedia search of other medical dramas reveals a Dr. Mark Greene on ER and a Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on Chicago Hope. I don't think this guy Alex Karev is Jewish. Karev may be a vaguely hebrewish name, but it's unclear. We are given no indication of Yiddishkeit. I think Grey's Anatomy should get with the program. Bring on the Yids.

Boxing nicknames are awesome. No other soprt has nicknames that are nearly as cool. The only really cool basketball name I like is "The Answer" for Allen Iverson. In baseball, I always liked Mike "Laser" Lansing, but only when said with a Joile Quebecois accent (Le Grande Orange is also pretty good, for Rusty Staub).

Here are my top ten boxing nicknames.

10. The Motor City Cobra = Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns. The problem here is that most people know him as the Hitman, but the other nickname is cooler.

9. Manos de Piedra (Hands of Stone) = Roberto Duran. Better in Spanish than English.

8. "Iron" Mike Tyson. Simple, pure and destructive.

7. "Baby-faced Assassin" = Marco Antonio Barrera. Cute, clever, and accurate.

6. "Prince" Naseem Hamed. A perfect nickname for an arrogant midget without a drop of royal blood, who happens to be one of the most entertaining fighters ever.

5. "Sweet Pea" = Pernell Whitaker. A slick, funny nickname for a defensive master.

4. "El Matador" = Ricardo Mayorga. A great nickname for a Nicaraguan fighter more bull than matador.

3. "The Ol' Mongoose" = Archie Moore. What a strange, bizarre nickname indeed.

2. "The Louisville Lip" = Muhammad Ali. A great nickname for a man better known as "The Greatest."

1. "The Manassa Mauler" = Jack Dempsey. The absolute perfect nickname. Geography, perfect description and alliteration, and no other nickname to usurp it. It refers to his fighting, not his mouth. And it just sounds better than #2. Really, it doesn't get better than this.

Incidentally, the worst boxing nickname of all time is "The Golden Boy" for Oscar de la Hoya. I invite you all to comment, add , criticize, discuss nicknames from other sports, etc.

Montreal is an awesome city in the summer and finally we're getting some nice weather to be able to enjoy it. Here's my complaint (you knew there was one coming): they passed this no-smoking law, which is wonderful. Except in the summer, all you want to do is sit out on terrasses. And people are allowed to smoke there. That sucks. Defeats the whole purpose of this law. In Toronto, apparently, you can't smoke even on Terrasses. In Montreal, I heard you can't smoke in enclosed terrasses, but open ones you can. I prefer Toronto's law. I want to be able to sit outside in the summer and not have cigarette smoke blowing in my face.

So I recently saw Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth." Let me preface these comments by saying that though I am a liberal, I'm not a huge environmentalist. I think protecting the environment is important, but on my list of issues, it's near the bottom (not that I actually do anything to advance causes I support). I always found that environmentalism was the classic New Left limousine liberal cause. Rich people who live good lives can care about shit like global warming. Poor people don't always have that luxury. The environment to me was always a means to an end, it should be protected to benefit humans, not because it is itself an instrinsic good.

Saying that, this movie really scared me. It was an incredible film, really powerful, interesting and alarming. True, the movie was essentially Al Gore lecturing to you. I'm a big nerd and was blessed (or cursed) with a love of lectures. So I had no real problem with this. Some people think it's this kind of lecturing that alienated the American public in 2000. But I think America needs this kind of lecturing now. The world has to get its act together to prevent global warming from causing terrible natural disasters in the future.

I actually found it hard to watch, like a horror movie, because it really was horrifying. The Omen has nothing on global warming. Furthermore, I almost welled up in tears at one point. I thought to myself, wow I'm going to be doing a PhD in history, locking myself up in the Ivory Tower, while Al Gore is out there trying to save the world.

I really think Al should run for president. Is he using this global warming issue as a lightning rod for a campaign? Or does he simply want to be drafted by the democrats? I'm not sure, but I don't think it matters. He's the most qualified guy out there, a smart guy with genuine knowledge about this and many other important issues. He was an opponent of the Iraq War (which I regret supporting) but he's still tough on terrorists. I think he will be a much better president for the economy, helping level the playing field. And he's a friend of Israel.

When I think about comparing him to the moron Americans have in the White House now, it's really frightening. I'm one of those who genuinely believes that Dubya is a complete imbecile. I think he's got some smart, manipulative people around him, but really he's a dolt. America needs a good leader like Al Gore, and American needs to take the lead in the fight against global warming.

When I will finally be able to afford a car, in the year 2034 or so, I'm going to try to buy a hybrid. Hopefully they'll have brown hybrid station wagons.

So I thought I would comment on this new Canadian terror cell that was recently uncovered. Of course this is kind of scary. What interests me is the fact that these people are not really linked with Al Qaeda, but they are "Al Qaeda inspired." To me, this can be construed as both good and bad. It is good, in the sense that they probably don't have the skills and effectiveness that full-fledged members of Al Qaeda do, nor perhaps do they have access to the resources that the Al Qaeda network does.

At the same time, it might be bad because though they seemed to be grandiose in their objectives and inefficient in carrying anything out, they still got a hold of a lot of weaponry and even tried to get three tons of ammonium nitrate. So while they seemed to be buffoons, they were dangerous buffoons. And the fact that they were only "inspired" by Al Qaeda means that anywhere, in Canada, US, Europe, people who would otherwise be regular people, sometimes even citizens, can become inspired by some kind of radical doctrine and resort to violence. This is very scary, because it seems that it can happen anywhere and is difficult to prevent.