No way, now how. Anyone that thinks the Gold Glove awards are just about fielding hasn't been paying attention.

(Via Baseball Crank)

Top Fifty Players Of 2008:

Pick two of [players ranked 16-28]. Together, they were as valuable as one Albert Pujols.

Albert Pujols wins Most Valuable Player award:

St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols won his second NL MVP award, powering past Philadelphia Phillies star Ryan Howard by a comfortable margin Monday.

Vaporizing Tehran or Pyongyang wouldn't bring back New York or Seattle. We have to be able to defend ourselves.

by the helpful Planet Moron:

There are two types of renewable energy to consider:

1. The kind that is really expensive.
2. The kind that doesn’t exist.

The expensive kind is helpful in that the additional resources devoted to it will help slow down the economy, while the kind that doesn't exist is helpful in that the additional resources devoted to it will help slow down the economy.

So, there's really no downside.

You really should RTWT.

No one can rant like P J O'Rourke:

What will destroy our country and us is not the financial crisis but the fact that liberals think the free market is some kind of sect or cult, which conservatives have asked Americans to take on faith. That's not what the free market is. The free market is just a measurement, a device to tell us what people are willing to pay for any given thing at any given moment. The free market is a bathroom scale. You may hate what you see when you step on the scale. "Jeeze, 230 pounds!" But you can't pass a law making yourself weigh 185. Liberals think you can. And voters--all the voters, right up to the tippy-top corner office of Goldman Sachs--think so too.

Don't miss any of it.

He ended up scoring 20 points. It should make a great memory for him:

I have followed college basketball since I was a little kid, and I always wanted to play Division I basketball. When you think of college basketball, Kentucky is one of the first schools that come to mind — all the history, all the players and playing in Rupp Arena. This was a dream come true for me and most of my teammates.

As the game gets closer and closer, I think about all the hard work I put into becoming a college player, and I think about the unbelievable opportunity I have. There are only a select few who get to play in the historic Rupp Arena, and I am one of them.

I can’t wait until I hear 15,000 people screaming against me. I can’t wait until they call my name. I can’t wait until I get to touch that court. What a way to open my senior year with a chance of a lifetime.

Go sign the petition :

WHEREAS Senator Theodore Fulton Stevens has, during his 40 years in the U.S. Senate, established a notorious reputation for using Senate rules to benefit his friends and patrons at the expense of the taxpayers at large;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has been identified by the non-partisan Club for Growth as one of "the Congress’ most notorious porkers";

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has shamelessly boasted that "I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me";

WHEREAS Senator Stevens was indicted on July 29, 2008, by a federal grand jury on SEVEN FELONY COUNTS of failing to report gifts received from VECO Corporation and its CEO Bill Allen;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens was found GUILTY on October 27, 2008 on ALL SEVEN FELONY COUNTS;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has refused to resign from his Senate seat despite the guilty verdict; and

WHEREAS the United States Senate has the inherent power to remove Senator Stevens from the chamber and request that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appoint a suitable replacement;

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY REQUEST that the leadership and members of the United States Senate remove Theodore Fulton Stevens from the Senate and that Governor Palin appoint a suitable replacement for Senator Stevens.

Jules Crittenden » Omerica:

I’m not interested in spending the next four years in bitterness, the way the opposition spent the last eight, and I trust America will still be here at the end of this term. Congratulations, Obama. It is a great country. It is yours to govern now, all hope and change in your hands. Hope and change are great, but try not to change it too much. Because I can assure you, it doesn’t get much better than this.

I really don't think he could have done much better. I would have preferred Romney, Thompson or Giuliani. I don't any of them would have done any worse. Next time, let's fix the primary system so that Republicans choose the nominee instead of Democrats and independents.

The best thing McCain did was to pick Sarah Palin. She is now the rock star of the party, the speaker everyone will want at their fundraiser for the next 4 years and the frontrunner for 2012 (for what that's worth, which is probably nothing).