Here’s the 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot: Rick Aguilera, Albert Belle, Bert Blyleven, Will Clark, Dave Concepcion, Andre Dawson, Gary DiSarcina, Alex Fernandez, Gary Gaetti, Steve Garvey, Dwight Gooden, Rich Gossage, Ozzie Guillen, Orel Hershiser, Gregg Jefferies, Tommy John, Doug Jones, Don Mattingly, Willie McGee, Hal Morris, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker, Jim …
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One of the most disingenuous phrases that keeps cropping up in the immigration debate (this is the new toy, since the Social Security debate flopped so badly) is “jobs Americans won’t do.” Well, lemme tellya, if the jobs paid a decent wage and had decent benefits, not to mention adequate inexpensive housing near the job …
If you want to see some beautiful illustrations, go here right now. The self-portrait with Australopithecus is wonderful, although I wouldn’t have picked that brand of beer. Wish the artist a happy birthday, too.
Sy Hersh has a new article in the New Yorker, and if even half of it is true, we (citizens of the United States) are in a world of trouble. Current and former military and intelligence officials have told me that the President remains convinced that it is his personal mission to bring democracy to …
Those of you who are SETI contributors probably know this, but it’s been consolidated with seven other distributed computing projects at the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. That’s one of those names that I suspect was chosen for its acronym, especially when you see its screensaver moving across your screen at all angles. Anyway, …
I went down to Safeway and then to the Dollar Store (cheaper cigarettes) today, and I found a) a half-price sale on the special edition DVD of The Princess Bride, a movie I’ve never seen, and b) on the radio, the most unbelievable musical segue I’ve ever heard in my life: from a choral version …
You’ve heard of National Novel Writing Month, right? Now comes National Solo Album Month, NaSoAlMo for short. Yup, compose and record a solo album within a thirty-day period. The guy who thought it up insists it’s not a competition, but a challenge. There’s no need to release your album to a larger audience if you …
In keeping with longstanding Thanksgiving tradition: Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on – two years ago onThanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant, but Alice doesn’t live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray …
I’m hungry already. (click to enlarge)
I finished reading The Plot Against America, Roth’s fictional history of America if Lindbergh had run against FDR on an isolationist platform in 1940. Lindbergh’s campaign is pure Rovian: he barnstorms all 48 states via his famous airplane, makes 50-word speeches (“My opponent will take you into war; I won’t”), and carries all but two …