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More baseball - can you tell it's spring?
Apologies to those uninterested in baseball... but can I just say Go Mexico!
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Is this the new Yogi Berra?
Delmon Young, whom Baseball America ranked as the game's No. 1 prospect, has been short on numbers. He is batting .208 (5-for-24), and his home run and RBIs (he also had a run-scoring single) were his first of the spring.
Young said he is hitting the ball hard, just at people.
"The swing has been there," he said. "If there wasn't nine guys out in ( Read more... ) -
Let's play connect the dots!
So, as you may have heard, back in December the US House passed a bill, The Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, that would make it a felony to be undocumented in the US and would also make it a felony to assist anyone who is undocumented. In addition it calls for the permanent detention of all arrested ( Read more... ) -
Scratch January off the list
I've developed an odd new goal-oriented hobby (or habit, or task?), which is swimming in the Atlantic Ocean at least once every month of the year ( Read more... ) -
Specter honing in on Alito
Although there has been a lot of coverage of Alito's anti-abortion record, not a lot of people are talking about his record on the other side of privacy rights - criminal procedure. To be sure, his opinion that strip-searching a child because her father was suspected of selling drugs has garnered media attention. But apart from a good piece by ( Read more... ) -
Vacate
People, I'm going on vacation for the first time in a while. My partner A. and I are flying to Puerto Rico for the weekend of christ. I've got a four day weekend, so we're going to try to make the most of it. Still, it's not a lot of time (3 nights, 3.5 days), so we're not sure if we should do a little extra traveling to get to Vieques (which ( Read more... ) -
Call it a day
It's cold as fuck tonight, and after snowing all night I'm supposed to wake up to sleet/freezing rain. No thanks. No amount of weather forecasters cheerily calling such a precipitation nightmare "wintry mix" can improve my mood about it ( Read more... ) -
Habeas, schmabeas?
People! I'm saving bklyndispatch from having to hold it down alone on his friends list, and asking that you help protect habeas corpus. (more info below on what this is ( Read more... ) -
And
Of course, the background check existed long before buildings flew into planes, but it seems to have hit new heights these past years of terror and metaterror. I'm sure that the history of the background check for professional licenses, credit applications, school admissions and bank accounts is lengthy. But when did it start, and what was its ( Read more... ) -
looking for a recipe
So I left this recipe at home, and now I need some help finding it. Anyone have Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for everyone? (I'm looking especially at you two, flowerlane and rootlesscosmo). If you do, hit me up with the Pear-Almond Upside Down Cake recipe. That may not be the exact name, but it's in there, you bake it in a cast-iron ( Read more... )