The Old Blog

It’s true for Sesame Street, but it’s especially true for baseball. If you have some time tonight, listen to longtime Detroit Tiger radio announcer Ernie Harwell call the Rangers/Yankees game tonight on ESPN, as part of the channel’s “Living Legends” series. He is a joy to hear.

Furthermore, Harwell’s voice always gives me fond memories because he was the narrator on the MLB 1991 World Series video commemorating the Twins’ second championship in five years–and still the best Series of my lifetime.

J-Lo dumped Ben!

No, she didn’t.

The US has landed the first members of a peacekeeping force in Liberia. According to the article, troops are only present as liaisons. Of course, liaisons are kind of like advisors. And we sent tens of thousands of “advisors” to Vietnam before the general populace caught on to what was happening over there…

Gary Coleman is the lastest celebrity to get on the ballot for California’s special gubernatorial election in October. Thanks to some antiquated rules, the person who was elected with more than 50% of the vote could get ousted by someone who receives as little as 10% of the vote in the new election.

Ebay showed what side their bread is buttered on when they banned “controversial” prints of “Axis of Weasels” playing cards. The cards, which depict Dubya, Rummy, Cheney, et al as various members of the spade family, have generated a lot of hate mail. Or maybe the hate-mailers just don’t understand Canadian artist John Steins’ sense of humor.

Meanwhile, none of the following are in our custody:
Osama bin Laden
Saddam Hussein
Iraq’s WMDs
Appreciation of ironic art

It happened again. Elderly (87-year-old) man (William Palmer) going the wrong way down a highway (I-195), causing a crash (four cars) and injuries (three, but none life-threatening).

It’s getting to the point where we can just fill in the details, like some sort of sadistic MadLib.

Yeah, it’s a tool Blogger gives us for long-distance blogging, but it’s also a sentiment shared by many of Blogger’s users. Today I found that my “post” window had been changed to the ultra-crappy “lofi” version, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change it.

Blogger is notorious for their lack of support (it’s a free service, so I guess I get what I pay for), so now I’m stuck with a worse version of what was already a fair-to-middlin’ program.

As soon as I can afford (and maintain) it, I’m leaving for my own URL. That way Blogger won’t get any more of my money.

The US is secretly negotiating with Iran, so whatever you do, don’t tell anyone, let alone put it on a website.

Carol Moseley-Braun, former Democratic Senator from Illinois, thinks it’s time a woman is elected President. In other news, Moseley-Braun is already a declared candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2004.

Sue McIlwraith, 46, of England, finally passed her driving test on her 20th try, after 300 lessons and 7 years.

Says Sue, “I’ve got to be honest – I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to driving and I just didn’t get it at all.”

McIlwraith is only 46 now, which raises the question of whether she will indeed become the world’s most dangerous driver when her motor skills really start to go. For anyone planning on hitting England around the year 2027, please be careful and avoid farmers markets at all costs.