Me too

Funniest...headline...ever
OK, no more about him. I couldn't help it, that's just funny.

Can we go on now?

OK, fine the little bleached freak is not guilty. Can we go on now and never mention his name again? I like going to Yahoo's most popular news pictures and I'm getting tired of his ghastly mug appearing all the time. Bring back the halcyon days of female beach volleyballs players hugging each other in the sand. Look at these two weirdos in the pic below. I believe we can all agree that those two should be kicked squarely in the ass. That blond looks about my age which means she was doing this back in the early 80's when she was a teenager. Do you think when her mom was pushing 40 she was standing around still screaming at former Beatles? Show some dignity, you're embarrassing me and your children.

Whoa

I tell you what, 18 holes of golf will take it out of you. My buddy Brigham and I met up at Larkhaven Golf Course at 9 am and four hours later we finished. The day started out cloudy and muggy and then got hot and muggy. The sky cleared up and it got hotter and muggy. The sun burned some of the moisture off and it got hotter but with the moisture out of the air it actually felt nice out. Nice enough to burn my face beet red but still enjoyable. One thing I enjoy about golf is you spend four hours outside and the as the day changes you are in it and can experience. I need to spend more time outside.

For those of you that care I sank a twenty-foot putt and even drove the ball almost straight a couple of times off the tee late in the day. Swearing was kept at a necessary minimum and no clubs were thrown.

Fun with baseball numbers

You can't look at an internet sports page today without seeing that Alex Rodriquez, the future hall of fame third baseman for the New York Yankees, started a new baseball "club." He's the first player to reach 400 home runs before turning thirty years old. Pretty big deal, I guess but the Babe would have also if he hadn't wasted those couple of years pitching for the Red Sox. I went ahead and looked at Rodriguez' statistics and noticed he doesn't strikeout all that much for a slugger. Then I wondered how many times the great Pujols strikes out (he's a young hitter for the Cardinals). I saw that Pujols makes Rodriguez look like Jose Canseco. Rodriguez is good for over 100 strikeouts a year but Pujols, who averages over thirty homeruns a year, has yet to strikeout 100 times in one season. In fact last year he hit 47 homeruns and only struck out 52 times. This caused me to wonder if anyone has ever had more homeruns than strikeouts in a single season. Hello, baseball reference!

Guys that have done it:
George Brett in 1980 with 24 dingers and 22 strikeouts.
Don Mattingly didn't do in 1985 but he did hit 35 homers with only 41 strikeouts and that's pretty darn good.
Yogi Berra did it a lot. In 1950 he hit 28 homeruns with 12 K's! 1951: 27 and 20. 1952 30 and 24. 27 and 20 in 1955 and 30 and 29 in 1956. In 1957 he showed off by strking out as often as he homered which was 24 times.
Ted Williams in 1941 not only batted over .400 but he also hit 37 homeruns and stuckout 27 times. In 1950 he had the ratio of 28 to 21. 1955 28 and 24.

That's all I've found. There might be a few more out there.

Needs more study...

You gotta love George Bush's non answer to Tony Blair's request that we work to stop global warming. This bullshit of we know it's a problem but it needs more study. You know what needs more study you chimp-faced piece of crap? What needs more study is how a non-caring bullshitter like you got into office. Jesus Christ, maybe when the ocean is lapping at the foot of the Empire State Building then that will be proof enough that there may be a problem. I doubt it, we'd probably just build a levee around NYC and hope for the best and then study global warming some more. Maybe the problem will go away if we keep proclaiming that we spend more than any other country on global warming research. He just should have said what he really meant which is "We ain't gonna do anything about global warming until Florida is about to go under because oil is big money and SUV's are the only thing keeping the shortsighted U.S. auto manufacturers from going under." Of course there is also the fundamentalsist aspect of his world view. He may be hoping that global warming starts the disasters that will eventually bring on the rapture. How does it feel to have a president that won't stop global warming because he believes that destroying the environment will get Jesus here faster?

You go, girl

You gotta love what she said but I bet Rush Limbaugh pleasured himself this morning when he read this in the news.

May god continue to bless George Bush

Freedom on the march.

Good morning, Satan

Just got off the phone with a delightful old lady who was looking for the 800 number for the National Geographic Society. No problem, found it on their website. She calls back five minutes later (doesn't bother to tell it's her again and acts annoyed when I verify it's her. Hey, I don't want to give her the same number again.) She explains the first number I gave her is in Florida and she doesn't want a number in Florida. She wants and toll free number for their headquarters in D.C. I then try to 'splain to her that organizations usually have a consumer line set up and that if I even find a number for the organizations headquarters it probably will not be a toll free number. About halfway through this explanation she interupts me and says, "Just look for the number, please!" Righto, you grumpy old hag.

As I predicted I found a direct line for the National Geographic library but no toll free number for their headquarters. I get back on the line and tell her that all I could find was direct line to the library and her response is, "I didn't ask for that!" I say, no but I couldn't find a toll free number for their headquarters. If I had found a toll free number for their headquarters I would have given it to you just now. "Oh, OK. Thank you." You bet, baby.

Keeping to the party line

You have to admire the Bush people, they keep it simple. So far a lot of the criticism I've seen in print about the prisoner/human rights thing has latched onto the word "gulag." An unfortunate piece of wording by Amnesty International. God bless them Bush people. They can latch onto the smallest thing and then convince the world that the group in question is full of America haters. Here's the comment from the Secretary of War Rumsfeld: '"Indeed, that's why the recent allegation that the U.S. military is running a gulag at Guantanamo Bay is so reprehensible," he said.' I wish a spokesperson for Amnesty International would get in front of a camera and say "We apologize for calling America's concentration camp a gulag."

I just got done checking Tom Tomorrow's webisite one of the commentators makes the same point in a much better way.

Wow

Hal Crowther chimes in on the Bush bastards.