Baseball last night, baseball today, maybe baseball tomorrow. The good thing is, the games are being held in a heavily-Catholic town just twelve miles down the road that is also holding its annual Polish festival. I'll probably be able to sneak in a confession and six cheese perogies. They'll roll me out of there fat and happy.
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When all you want to do is pay for your smokes and a six-pack, frustration mounts quickly: State police said a 45-year-old Dutchess County man became enraged at a 72-year-old woman who was in front of him at the checkout line of the Super Stop & Shop on Route 6 last night and ran her over with his shopping cart. The guy should learn how to use the electronic checkouts.
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Possibly the best summary of Communist China's murderous history I've ever seen, though the point made by the article is numbingly mundane by comparison (accurate, but mundane).
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This is surprising, why? "A man with an unusually tiny brain managed to live an entirely normal life as a civil servant." As Chesterton once remarked, "a civil servant is neither."
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Un-freakin'-believable. Paula Abdul breaks down over an unkind email. You'd think she just found out that her entire family had been wiped out in an alligator attack. I thought maybe it was a prank, but I think it's real. Fame and fortune has its price. In Paula's case, I fear the price was her brain.
