June search queries (annotated)

These aren’t as good as May’s, damn it. Unfortunately, it looks like all the results with the lowest hit counts were left unlisted by analog, and based on what I remember from my occasional trips through the access logfile, all the good stuff only had one or two hits. *sigh.* kerry t shirts Check out [...]

I don’t mean to gloat…

well, actually, yeah I do. Randy Johnson just threw a perfect game. So why am I gloating? Because Randy Johnson is on my fantasy squad and I just pulled WAY out front of the competition. w00t!

“Wait until it stops rolling and pick it up.”

— Bob Uecker, on catching the knuckleball. The New Yorker – a mag I generally detest for its haughty, thoroughly parochial tone – has a brilliantly in-depth piece on the knuckleball. Definitely a must-read for anybody who loves and/or wishes to understand baseball.

My cup runneth over.

With links, that is. Trying to make this quick, and editing a few redundant links (mostly about Abu Ghraib). The Daily Kos has been hot lately – they were my source for several links lately – but I think you need to read A View from Two Oceans and No Apology – Bush Tells Arab [...]

Major update post

…because R* is complaining that I haven’t really posted anything on ME in a couple weeks. And I must please my public. R*’s birthday was in late March, but the formal observation thereof wasn’t until April 2 (thanks to some scheduling conflicts). His friends J&J (who hosted a small corned beef and cabbage event in [...]