Mariners win 10th straight

The Mariners, who set an AL record with 59 road wins last season, won four games at Anaheim, four more at Texas and finished with a two-game sweep at the Coliseum.

Guess which team has the best record in baseball (again)? 

It can't last. 

That's what we said last year.

Texas is already 8 1/2 games behind.

16 games into the season.

11:55:54 PM  comment []    

Washington Post: Got Soy? Not in School Lunch

The dairy industry and others who promote milk say that it is nutritionally unmatched by most soy milks, provides calcium and Vitamin D and is cheaper, and that lactose intolerance isn't as big a problem as some people think.

It may seem that way if you aren't lactose intolerant.  If you are lactose intolerant, here's my favorite solution:

via TalkStink

6:20:40 PM  comment []    

Thomas Friedman: George W. Sadat

There is no teenager capable of making the political decision to commit suicide. You can bet it was older men who encouraged her to do this and who wrapped her in dynamite. That is not martyrdom, that is ritual sacrifice.

Do they know how twisted all this looks to the rest of the world?

6:03:09 PM  comment []    

BBC: Mummy trove found in Peru

So far, the archaeologists have retrieved about 2,200 mummies, though they believe there could be as many as 10,000 altogether.

The mummified corpses come from every part of Inca society - rich and poor, young and old.

5:54:02 PM  comment []    

New York has a new newspaper.  Ken Layne points out that the new reborn New York Sun website has no content.  Hmmm.  What year is it?

The Sun is conservative, or so they say.  I can't tell the players without a scorecard anymore.  Like Ken Layne, I consider myself liberal, but I find myself linking to the National Review not the Nation. 

Sondra's been working a lot with paradox lately.  Many apparently paradoxical, contradictory things in life that simply ARE.  The fanatics are the ones who ignore the truth of the "inconvenient" truth that belies their treasured truth. 

The conflict in Israel/Palestine is a prime example.  Yes, Palestinians are oppressed, dispossessed, and discomfited.  Yes, Israelis are threatened, terrorized, and distrustful.  They are both right.  I happen to think that the Israelis are more right in this case, but their hands are not clean. 

Our choices are to keep picking at the scab or to stop that useless activity and figure out some other way to get to what we want. 

There's the rub....

1:10:35 PM  comment []    

Sondra took the picture from my colonoscopy and showed it to Ella's kindergarten class.  Last night I asked her: "Uh, how did you introduce it to them?"

"I told them it was the inside of Howard."

"And they said?"

"They asked what part, of course.  I told them it was the part where poop comes from. They all went, 'Eeeeewww!'"

12:54:34 PM  comment []