Some evening news...

I knew there was a reason I never liked Yoko. Here's another.

Yoko Ono picked up an award on behalf of John Lennon - and appeared to take a dig at his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney.

Accepting the special trophy at the Q Awards, Ono said Lennon had sometimes felt insecure about his songs, asking why "they always cover Paul's songs and never mine."

"I said, `You're a good songwriter, it's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs,'" she said Monday.

The Boston Red Sox will have quite a few free agents during this offseason, one of them being Johnny Damon. Damon has expressed interest in staying with Boston.

"That's really something that I don't want to think about right now. You play the whole season with these guys, you enjoy every single moment. I hope I'm back. Hopefully we'll get a pretty good offer. I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully I'll be here for a long time," said Damon, his voice cracking slightly. "I think that's something that Theo [Epstein] and the ownership and me and Scott [Boras] have to talk about, sometime in hopefully the near future."[...]

"This whole clubhouse could be different," said Damon. "I don't even know where to start. Mike Timlin is a free agent; Billy Mueller, who is going to look very attractive to many teams; Kevin Millar, who has been great in the clubhouse and has helped keep us loose. The Manny situation, what's going to happen with that? There's a lot of uncertainty right now. Of course, we wish we didn't have to start answering these questions, but, unfortunately, our season is over."

Congrats to the winners of the Nobel Prize in economics.

Israeli-American Robert J. Aumann and U.S. citizen Thomas C. Schelling won the award for research on game theory, a branch of applied mathematics that uses models to study interactions between countries, businesses or people.

The theory, which was devised in 1944 by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, is often used in a political or military context to explain conflicts between countries but has been of late used to map trends in the business world, ranging from how cartels set prices to how companies can better sell their goods and services in new markets.

Finally! ArtScroll.com has come up with a brilliant idea: a kosher clock. This is a brilliant idea--which reminds me, I need to daven mincha and maariv right now.

Al Franken will be at the Stress Factory tomorrow night to benefit Jon Corzine's campaign for governor. Intellectual actor-comedian Al Franken will do a running commentary during the debate.