Miscellaneous Thoughts

1905 - Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers engage in a fistfight on the field during an exhibition game in Washington, Indiana, because Evers took a taxi to the park, leaving his teammates in the hotel lobby. The pair will not speak to each other again for thirty-three years (from TodayinBaseballHistory.com)... It has been just over a year since we lost Johnny Cash. I think Bono put it best when he said, "Locusts and honey ... not since John The Baptist has there been a voice like that crying in the wilderness. ... Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash."... Forget the assualt weapons ban - it's now three years after 9/11 and airline pilots still don’t have the right to carry to carry a gun in the cockpit. That should be unacceptable but it gets little notice... How to Dance Properly... Al Franken needed 14 Harvard research assistants to help him come up with his last book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Real political satirists like PJ O’Rourke don’t need 14 Harvard research assistants – at most maybe just the assistance of Mr. Jack Daniels. This just reconfirms my belief that not only is Al Franken chronically unfunny and mean spirited – he’s also lazy...