It's All Good

In Boston, the Red Sox lead Baltimore 2-0 in the bottom of the seventh, while AJ Burnett throttled the New York Yankees in Toronto, and Tampa Bay lost in Cleveland. Assuming we can hold that lead (never an assumption I take lightly), we begin the All Star Break in first place.
(Update: It weren't easy, but Papelbon managed to seal the deal, getting Melvin Mora to line out with the tying run on third to seal a 2-1 win.)

In addition, a Red Sox farmhand named Lin starred in the Futures Game. W00t!

I listened to a series of disturbing podcasts today-Bob Edwards had a pair of authors telling about injustice, both in the American legal system and at Guantanamo. Bill Moyers had a discussion with a pair of conservatives about the future of the conservative movement. Then, of course, the king of the independent media, Dan Carlin.

Dan Carlin's show was absolutely brilliant. It was a 50 minute argument that the American political system is hopelessly broken, and it may have been the most compelling show I've ever heard from him.

"The tree of liberty must, from time to time, be refreshed with the blood of tyrants."

I don't even know what to say about it-to say anything at all is to minimize it. I don't feel capable of describing it adequately.

The remedy of impeachment, conviction, and imprisonment seems almost too light for the extent to which the Republicans have debased America in nearly every way. And the Democrats, frankly, aren't all that much better because they acquiesed to so much of it.

Dan said that his local newspaper prints the Declaration of Independence in place of editorials in its July 4 edition. It very much reminds me of the John Adams program, of course, and the fear those men must have been under at that time. Committing treason at best, they were all due to be hung if the revolution failed.

And, as Dan notes during the show, if there were a Thomas Jefferson alive today, we'd wiretap him.