Of course, looking at this site may make your eyes go buggy after a while.

“Once she gets over the shock of it and settles into a routine, she starts looking around her…and realizes that this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You’re in this place. There’s other people all around you, but they don’t understand you and you don’t understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.”

- from Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

Crrrraaaaacccckkkk! On the first pitch of the bottom of the 11th, Aaron Boone crushed the hopes and dreams of Red Sox fans the world around. What an incredible game.

As you probably have already heard, the Cubs lost to the Marlins in the decisive game 7 of the NLCS, meaning the Marlins are cruising their way to the World Series. I can’t even imagine what people in Chicago are feeling right now — to have come so close, with such good prospects, only to fail in the eleventh hour…the Cubs watched unbelievably as their 3-1 lead in the series disappeared, one painful game at a time.
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Two of my favorite teams were vying for the World Series, and both looked like strong contenders…until yesterday. The Red Sox had a tough loss to the Yankees, leaving them 3-2 in the ALCS, while the Cubs just lost their composure after one little incident. They looked like shoe-ins, and now have a tough game to play against the Marlins today.

Yesterday was nothing but heartbreak. From the close Red Sox loss, to the simply unbelievable eighth inning for the Cubs, yesterday was rough. But the Cubs game…that was just hurtful. And by hurtful, I mean terrible to watch. Mark Prior pitched an absolutely stunning two hitter shut out through the seventh, only for it all to go awry. The curses, it seems, continue to fight. I sat in stunned silence as the eighth inning unfolded in all its monstrous glory.

Both teams have a hell of a fight today, to battle back from mediocrity to seize the prize. Can they do it, or will it be yet another crushing, crushing day?

I don’t necessarily agree with the writer of this article, but it does present an interesting look at Religion and the Founding Fathers. While the quotes pulled from the Founding Fathers are, at heart, heavily anti-religious in nature, they don’t quite convey the “evils” of religion that the writer would claim they portray. I think there’s more to be said about administration than anything else — an interesting read, nonetheless.

As the Red Sox pull in an important victory bringing them to 2-2 in the ALCS, it looks like they’re still in the game. Woo hoo! The Cubbies aren’t looking too bad either, pulling out a 3-1 lead in the NLCS. Though the Marlins dropped that to a 3-2 lead, no team has come back from a 3-1 slump since like the 20′s.

Note in the above how I sound like a baseball afficionado? I’m not. In fact, I would be completely lost in the above dialogue, say, a month ago, because I never paid that close attention to baseball. Why? Because I’d been a Cubbies fan for years growing up, and then a Red Sox fan after moving to Boston (which sounds an awful lot like trading six dozen of one for half a dozen of the other). It’s been nothing but heart break for years and years, and suddenly, both actually stand a chance. That’s why I’m so into this series, but it leaves me a bit conflicted.
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I was filled with disbelief when Georgie asked for an additional $87 billion earlier this year for the Middle East situation. This person puts that spending in perspective. Well, perspective if we only had $1 bills.

Why have we spent almost three times as much in the war in Iraq and Afganistan than we have on education? I’m beginning to think the US is going to make its new policy a calculator in every person’s hands, because I have doubts people will be able to make exact change in the future.

Me thinks we should force everyone in the world to use dollar bill (or roughly equivalent) currency only. It would make buying a car fun!

I used to be a big believer in laissez faire when it came to politics. I might not always agree with whomever is elected, but I could trust them to be pretty reasonable. It was a dangerous attitude to take, and one that I’m sure many others took — apathy was just a better match for those of us who were lazy. Alas, those days are past.
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Why is this so funny? I have no idea. It must be the hats.