Especially Beltre: I’ve been rooting for him for a while. I sympathize with the pressure he has clearly felt, with a huge contract after a career year, and he has largely not lived up to it in the eyes of most. But tonight, 4 for 4 with 2 dingers and a couple of doubles. Wow. [...]

This story makes me sort of grin. It’s not that a guy trying to blow folks up is funny, but a Liberty University student trying to blow anti-Falwell protesters up? That’s downright high-larious. It’s not that I blame religion for violence: it’s just the excuse much of the time. I just accuse religion of being [...]

As a FARK poster said, may history remember him for what he was. Yeah.

Ever since I got my copy of English As She Is Spoke, I’ve wondered about how it compares to Babelfish, given that it is essentially the earliest example of Babelfish telephone, translating a phrase through a couple of languages to arrive at some distorted result. I am much gratified that someone has done a comparison. [...]

Mona was sad yesterday. Mona can get sad when thing go wrong, no matter how small the thing is: a tiny bit of water spilled on her shirt, or making a mistake when reading, or something. Very small issues, but she feels a lot of embarrassment and shame, and she gets very sad. Anyway, yesterday, [...]

Scene: last night, at Chris’ 37th birthday party (Hi Chris!). A afew of us from work are there, I’m the only one with kids present, so they’re making themselves the center of much attention. Isabel, in her way, goes up to Matt, a coder at work, and pushes him. Matt, if you don’t know him, [...]

Jeebus, what an idiot. “I’m the commander guy”? He’s also the Decider, I hear. He’s also incredibly stupid. And cynical. Deeply evil, too.

It has been a while since I posted about politics. That’s because mostly, the media has been stepping up. And I’ve been reading a lot of what I hanker to say, in a lot of other places, better than I can express it. And with the Democratic gains in Congrefs, I’m just happy to see [...]