bjorn_skurj

I wish I lived next door to Christopher Hitchens so we could hang out and drink gin. I am deeply envious of his prose style.

The Knights Templar, one of the major forces in the Crusades, were alleged to not be as pious as one would think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet My other point is that for us, Iraq is about oil, but for many Muslims, it's about religion, specifically a resumption of the Crusades that started with Zionism.

Maybe he wanted to text Mrs. Rod.

Get a designated driver and enjoy yourself, is my advice. My reunion was a bunch of jovially bombed people giving one another 30-second rundowns of their past 20 years.

I don't know about e-mail addresses, but I found hiding a flask full of bourbon in my pants greatly improved my class reunion.

Well, F it. The Mets should sign Barry Bonds.

Hey, at least it wasn't 11-10.

Even if McCain wins, he will in all likelihood face a Congress even more Democratic than it is now, so my prediction of what he will be able to accomplish in his first term will fall somewhere between "jack shit" and "not too f-ing much."

Compared to what? Are not Reagan and Bush II the greatest federal spenders of all?

Indeed.

It is a sad reminder of what can happen when you take drugs at Yankee Stadium for a Waters-less Pink Floyd concert.

A similar experience turned my ex-brother-in-law into a Jehovah's Witness. I am not making that up either.

I am not making that up. And in all fairness to Al, here is his statement from a 2004 NYT story: On the theory that Leiter's disappointment with Kazmir's maturity influenced the Mets to unload their top pitching prospect, he said: "He put Eminem on in the clubhouse and I said, 'Hey, what are you doing?' And that's the reason we traded him? That is sad. I didn't even know the kid."

The rumor at the time was that Kazmir's playing of rap music in the locker room annoyed Al Leiter to such an extent that he got him traded.

Be nice to undo the stupid trade that sent him there in the first place.

I kind of agree with you. I don't really like this All-Star BP unis based on the host team's colors thing. I do like the Mets winning today. Take that, Philadelphia!

To be honest, I think the only responsible thing for the Mets to do is put him on the 60-day DL and see what happens after that. One more clock on the head could permanently damage the kid, or even kill him, IHVH forbid.

True. Hopefully. the Mets' luck will be better in the second half.

Wagner is the only Met that deserves to be an All-Star this year.

I would be all in favor of turning the world over to the European Union for a few years while we focus on ourselves, but I don't know if they're up for it, frankly.

Hey, i root for the Mets!