Waterboard this!

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0122272320071101


"I believe the questions he's been asked are unfair," Bush said in an Oval Office session with reporters. "He's been asked to give opinions of a program -- or techniques of a program -- on which he has not been briefed."

Jesus H. Christ. He's talking about the question of whether or not waterboarding is torture.

How about we get to a place in this country where everybody knows the answer to a question like that? Goddamn it, torture is torture is torture.

I wish we still lived in America.


Nugget from Lee Sinins' new edition of the Complete Sabermetric Encyclopedia:

CAREER
OBA
1 Ted Williams .482
2 Babe Ruth .474
3 John McGraw .465
4 Billy Hamilton .455
5 Lou Gehrig .447
6 Barry Bonds .444
7 Bill Joyce .435
8 Rogers Hornsby .434
9 Ty Cobb .433
10 Todd Helton .430

Todd Helton has the 10th highest OBP in history. Wow.

I never would have guessed that.


It doesn't take long to find out something cool with Lee's toy.