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Despite the usual war, poverty, pestilence that always haunt our world, I marvel at how good we have it. We have baseball and we have technology such that one can follow his or her team from the four corners of the earth. That's nothing to take for granted.
Last night Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 475th home run, which ties him with Stan Musial on the all-time list. Junior and Stan now have several things in common:
Both are lefthanded hitters
Both have 475 lifetime homers
Both were born on November 21st
Both were born in Donora, Pennsylvania
Can you imagine you're Ken Griffey Jr., you're from a tiny steel town of about 10,000 people, you're a certified Hall of Famer, but you're not even the best baseball player from your hometown? I find that one of the more astonishing coincidences in baseball history.
§ - Brief PSA - "She'll never be able to live on her own. She'll never drive, have children, get a job - sure, some people with autism aren't this severe and I'm not giving up on her or anything, but her rate of progress is so painfully slow that we've been told to keep our optimism to a minimum."
§ - Cadmium Disrupts Ability of Cells to Fight Cancer - "Cadmium, a naturally occurring metal found in food, water and cigarette smoke, disrupts a DNA repair system that is important in preventing cancer. The metal, primarily used to make batteries, is a known human carcinogen."
§ - Keeping up with the Joneses? - 'Blair Force One' plans get boost - "The prime minister and the defence secretary should have a special plane to fly them around the world on official trips."
§ - roadmaps are for pussies - "So I wonder, are Bush, Powell and Blair manly men, or will they wuss out and actually follow their roadmaps?"
§ - You Googled Me? - "Perhaps it would do well to ponder on this point, that it's not appropriate for royalty to appear in the buff, ever?"
I guess our best hope is that, within another year or so, everyone will own a p*n*s enlargement device, which will cut spam by at least 20% when no more sales are made.
Was just watching the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Someone to Watch Over Me" which includes the Doctor and Seven singing a duet of "You Are My Sunshine." This is a song from my childhood—it was part of my mom's sheet music collection for her organ. Everybody knows the perky chorus:
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray. You'll never know dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.
But have you ever checked out the verses to this song? It's #73 on CMT's 100 Greatest Country Songs, where it is described as "a song that is filled with mournful pleading and borderline threats to a lover who is about to leave him." Quite honestly, this gives me the creeps and his Sunshine is well out of there!
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken So I hung my head and I cried.
I'll always love you and make you happy, If you will only say the same. But if you leave me and love another, You'll regret it all some day.
You told me once, dear, you really loved me And no one else could come between. But now you've left me and love another; You have shattered all of my dreams.
In all my dreams, dear, you seem to leave me When I awake my poor heart pains. So when you come back and make me happy I'll forgive you dear, I'll take all the blame.
