Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

I finished Mike Schmidt(the former third baseman and Hall of Famer Michael Jack Schmidt, not the former third baseman Michael Glenn Schmidt)...

Actors Ricardo Montalban (Fantasy Island) and Patrick McGoohan, along with painter Andrew Wyeth, have passed away recently. All three were s...

Read Joe Garagiola's "Just Play Ball" this morning. There's a bit of old man crankiness in it, which you have to expect fr...

On this week's "Car Talk", they had a call from a woman who had moved from San Francisco to Puerto Rico to open a restaurant. ...

From the always entertaining Wicked Pissa Dude Radio, an attitude and humor filled Boston sports podcast: (www.wickedpissadude.com) The poin...

# It is 277 days until your next birthday. # In dog years you are 259 years old. # You are 13,603 days old. # You are approximately 326,473 ...

And Rickey Henderson (http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/the-wonder-of-rickey/) and Jim Rice(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rice) a...

Another weekend day, wasted away to nothing. Finished A Game Of Brawl, moving on now to "Baseball's Great Experiment", another...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvmiOsKjTKM The parody of the parody of the Paul Stanley Weatherman bit. http://pardcast.com/blog/?p=26 The p...

So, I'm back. I realized with a bit of shock that I hadn't blogged anything since Tuesday. Tuesday? Heavens to Murgatroyd. So here I...

"I'm a word freak. I like words. I've always compared writing to music. That's the way I feel about good paragraphs. When i...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2009/01/05/legsabidkatibgetty.jpg The legs of a small dead Palestinian child. Ye...

Another brilliant Dan Carlin this week (www.dancarlin.com) about the Arab-Israeli problem. The dead right certainty of both sides, the fiend...

I listen to the Slate podcast feed (www.slate.com), at least partially out of habit, but mostly because I enjoy hearing people smarter than ...

WATCHING (Well, Watched): "Gonzo, the life of Hunter S. Thompson", a documentary about the Good Doctor. Well worth your time. READ...