Dice-K's 108 pitches, Romney's hunting of GIGANTIC masculine insects and little animals, Cheney for President, Goodling's Good Friday resignation, moral relativity, Japan will stop on Wednesday
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THE DICE-K ERA HAS BEGUN. Yesterday in Kansas City, Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched 108 pitches ranging in speed from 75-95 mph, for 7 innings, struck out 10, walked 1 and made Boston Red Sox fans realize why we are Boston Red Sox fans. The Boston Red Sox won 4-1 and looked great. It is early but it's hard not to stop smiling and loving the number 18. [Number 18 had been worn by Johnny Damon, the Red Sox traitor with the always-limp throwing arm who signed with the NY Yankees. The number 18 now has virtue again - 18 has been restored to its important place in numbers.]
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Other great things are going on - as of 2:30 PM today, my taxes are done. Caiparinha time!
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RUN DICK RUN - One Chicken Hawk Preceding Another Chicken Hawk
Some conservative Republicans want Dick Cheney to run for President of the United States. I will pray that Cheney runs and continues to be the hateful, arrogant, smirking Cheney, the CEO who is wrong on all things political, domestic or foreign, and especially all things related to terrorism. Hopefully this New York Sun article is for real and not a late April Fool's prank or an Onion joke or an M.I.T. hack. It would be great to get to have Dick Cheney not in hiding but more out in the open - to be able to hear his profanities - to capture the sights, the sounds, the smells [the only time I'll quote SPINAL TAP in the vicinity of the name, Dick Cheney] of this always wrong but always confident man.
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REPUBLICANS are having tough times. Even if Bush called Iraq "a catastrophic success" [one should give him the benefit of the doubt - he likely meant that things were good, not catastrophic], there's Katrina fallout, Walter Reed fallout, and now Monica Goodling, the US DOJ official who felt compelled to do that most non-Republican thing - invoke the 5th Amendment, the criminal's best friend - has now resigned! YIKES! She must be privy to some very dangerous information. And to do it on a Friday afternoon.... that's always a good sign for the other side.
Justice Department official Monica Goodling resigned her position as counselor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Friday afternoon.
Goodling had invoked the Fifth Amendment, which protects witnesses from self-incrimination, in refusing to testify before Congress regarding the firings of eight U.S. attorneys."
[I see conservative heads hung in shame.....No - Not That - The Constitution!]
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I've now made guacamole three times. The second was perfect - the third not quite as good. I hope I can get back to my "old" form soon. If guacamole feels this good, it must be right...... Moral relativity, culinary relativity......
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And The Sopranos final episodes begin this Sunday night! I'll be far away in a good hotel in complete escapist isolation with great writing, acting, producing and directing in front of me. My predictions? (Time to be wrong again....) Christopher Moltisanti (and Paulie Walnuts) will not be killed in this episode but both will die in one of the last two episodes. Because I've written this, surely this is not how it will go.
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The next time Dice-K pitches will be on Wednesday in God's Park in Boston. And not that the hype will be too silly BUT Dice-K's first pitch will be to the Second Greatest Hero of Japan - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners. Japan will likely come to a complete stop - this will have to be Japan's Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan moment.
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One more funny, and hypocritical, thing re Republicans - many of their most prominent, including David Dreier, are in the position of soft-selling Rudy Guiliani's strong backing of abortion rights. WHAT?!?!?!? Moral relativity for sure! I understand that their need to be pragmatic, and try to hold on to the White House, trumps their moral code.
So, Rudy is pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, but he is their most electable.
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ROMNEY the Hunter (of moths, butterflies and gnats)
Funnier still is the SLEAZIEST SERIOUS CANDIDATE running for President - Mitt "All Things To All People At All TImes" Romney claiming that he is a lifelong hunter, Twice in his life means "lifelong." Excellent! Worthy of The Onion. It is the little lies - and hunting large bugs and little rodents, and coverup - that will bury you.
No wonder everyone is begging the most presidential looking guy ever born, Fred Thompson, to announce his candidacy and save Republicans from their Top Three. Of course digging into his personal life will be fun
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