The new Officially Licensed Red Sox Casket. [Video]

Psst, don't tell anyone but I am secretly rooting for the Tigers to win the World Series. In my opinion, there is no city more deserving of a win than Detroit.

The Consumerist reports:

Red Sox player Jacoby Ellsbury stole a base last night in Game 2 against the Colorado Rockies, so you'll be getting a free taco from Taco Bell.

The taco will be of the "Crunchy Beef" variety and can be obtained by visiting any Taco Bell from 2-5pm on Oct 30.

Thanks, Jacoby.

There's something horrific about the idea of 'crunchy beef' and yet: When was the last time a baseball team did something for you?

Today was another ten hour day at work, which ruined epic afternoon plans. On the bright side one of my pet project fundraisers has netted us an ever-growing pile of money (now $2,600). So among all the stresses and necessary things that had to get done today I felt very accomplished in my side project.

I got home a little before seven, had a quick dinner, and decided to plow through cooking my curry. It felt good to finally get the chance to make the damned curry I have been planning to do for almost a week. It looks pretty delicious and made the apartment smell very nice. I have about a week's worth of dinners and a great need for a rice cooker.

I started to feel a little sick today and have been busily drinking lots of my Thayer Street Medicinal Blend tea. I need to stave off this cold for at least another week so work dies down.

The Red Sox are having an amazing game tonight against the Rockies, but I am so exhausted that I think I may need to go to bed in a few minutes and miss the rest of the game. Finally, there are pictures of one of my roommate's cats on my Flickr and also some photos of my recent adventures. Now bed.

Today was nuts and I prefer not to write about it. It's not halfway interesting either. I keep promising interesting LiveJournal entries, but the list of topics I want to write about keeps getting longer and longer. So I'll get a quick two out of the way.

Red Sox
So the Red Sox were down 3-1 and at last night's game were facing elimination from the post-season. Now, I know most of you don't care much for baseball but this story is short and fairly funny. Our ace pitcher Josh Beckett, who has been the only pitcher on the Red Sox who's pitching made Cleveland lose their only game. Okay, boring right? Well, as it turns out Josh Beckett's ex-girlfriend sang the National Anthem to open last night's game.

Cleveland of course claims this was a total coincidence, but let's be serious. Beckett was announced in the rotation days earlier and Cleveland knew well he was coming and the media discovered the connection the day before the game. It just seems entirely too convenient that this would be and then with ample notice still go on. Be serious Cleveland, you knew but even that didn't help you nor did the criminally bad call in your favor that reduced what should have been a home run into a single. The Red Sox have an uphill battle to win the next two games to clinch the series. If the Indians take just one more game the Sox are golfing. Only ten teams in the history of baseball have come back to a 3-1 hole and the Red Sox are looking to be number 11 with things now at 3-2. Just like in 2004. Boston hasn't felt this alive in years.

An Apology to the Affleck Brothers
Okay, so I was pretty nasty towards the Affleck brothers making their new movie Gone Baby Gone. Partly because I thought it looked precisely and sounded like Mystic River only without a twitchy Tim Robbins and a oleaginous Sean Penn. Also, because I despise Ben Affleck and his poky brother. So apparently totally doesn't suck™, and is actually very good. At the time of writing it had over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and people are going so far as to say it represents the redemption of Ben Affleck's Hollywood street cred. The consensus seems to be the movie turns out to heavily distance itself from the traditions of the cop drama genre and ventures deeply into moral ambiguity:

“We Own the Night”, released last week, painted a picture of cops and criminals as angels and demons fighting a holy war on an epic stage. In “Gone Baby Gone”, the angels turn out to be demons, and they skirmish in the shadows. - The Metro

Okay, Affleck so your directorial debut doesn't suck. I'll put that up to beginner's luck. At least I don't have to listen to your Boston accent.

Finally, there is just so many reasons to be excited by the very concept of Earl Grey brownies and with a recipe courtesy of the Boston Globe that becomes a delicious reality.

I am moved into my new apartment. The apartment is nice. The location is convenient. The cats are cute, nice, and weird. My roommate Forest is definitely the highlight of it all. I am mostly moved in, although am being forced to live out of boxes until my dresser comes in. In a few weeks I will be able to accept visitors.

I was scolded for wanting to have an evening in, so I guess I am going out. The Red Sox are having a rally in City Hall Plaza and that seems like a pretty logical place for me to go. Maybe I can drag my father out of the house for some male bonding time, since he's pretty sad I am not home anymore. My mother is as crazy as ever and yet I feel comfortable knowing she doesn't have a key to the place I live anymore. Here's to the hope of living a relatively drama-free life for awhile. Both of my parents are going to Hawaii for two weeks to see off my Aunt who is very, very ill. It is unclear how much of that time my parents want me to spend at home taking care of the needy cat and the forest of plants my mother maintains.

Work continues to go well but is getting a little stressful as we ramp up activity for our 25th Anniversary. Yesterday, I bought the cutest light blue rolly cart. Now, it just needs a name.

Edit: I failed to go to City Hall Plaza and ended up at home. Close enough.

Busy seems to be the on-going theme these days. I really haven't had a spare evening in quite some time and would like to sometime soon as I miss open pockets of time where I can freely do as I please. But I have to admit it is a bit fun to be so occupied in my life with many things. Still, I hope to make more time for relaxing once I'm moved into my apartment the week after next. Then things should settle down for at least a bit.

On a whim this evening, I wandered down and bought very cheap day of tickets to Man of La Mancha at the Lyric Stage. The first twenty minutes was a bit slow but it rapidly picked up and by the end I was totally crying like a huge sap. The Lyric stage is a wonderful little intimate theatre with a great ambition to adapt big productions to a very small place. Tonight made me realize how much I really want to attend more cultural events around here and how much I miss theatre being a significant part of my life. The play was oddly appropriate, given one of the songs from the play became the anthem of the 1967 "The Impossible Dream" Boston Red Sox, who after eight consecutive losing seasons defied all expectations and clinched the American League pennant but failed to capture the World Series. This year is the 40th anniversary of that historic season and the Red Sox seem to be doing the polar opposite - carrying the whole season with the best record in baseball and seeming all to willing to flub it up in the last month of the season.

My highlight of the week was getting a very mysterious package from greensword, which contained a very sweet note and a package of Jelly Babies. How utterly fantastic. Thanks Shauna, it totally brightened up my week!

This weekend I am off to Baltimore to go to the lavish million-dollar wedding being thrown by the West Coast side of the Gray line. The wedding is so fancy every member of my family had to buy new clothes. Despite fleeing the stuffy North East, this side of the family has managed to hold onto and indeed amplified the snobby upper-class mentality that the East coast family has lost. They still attend those goofy faux aristocratic events that are all the rage on the left coast elite. Well, even if the wedding isn't much fun, I look forward to seeing them all and chuckling at how ridiculous they all are. The wedding is going to have a Chinese twist, as my cousin is marrying a very well-to-do (surprise!) Chinese man who is the heir to some big-deal Chinese construction company. My sister and I were almost seated at the children's table (Zing!), but then at the last minute were switched to the single's table. There we shall wine and dine with the young and wealthy. Time to pick me up a twice endowed wife. Yussss.

Tonight I went to the Red Sox game with my father, and it was a wonderful time (as going to a Red Sox game always is), even though the game itself was most disappointing with an 8-4 loss against the Cleveland Stereotypes (and breaking our five game winning streak). I finally got to see Matsuzaka pitch in-person and he's got gorgeous form, but gave up eleven hits before they pulled him. I think the game was lost because they didn't pull him soon enough. I took a lot of really lovely pictures that I'll start putting on Flickr tomorrow since its late right now.

I can't remember the last time I attended a home game that we won, well yes I do but I was a kid and I distinctly remember also getting a beer very literally dumped on me by an excited fan when Mo Vaughn got a home run. The drunken man was so embarrassed he bought me a souvenir ice-cream in a cheesy Red Sox helmet I still have to this day.

Despite this game being a loss and an underwhelming game as a whole, the energy at Red Sox games are just amazing and the people are so friendly. My dad bought me a new Red Sox hat a lovely Field fitted cap and I giggled with delight at all the multi-lingual Red Sox hats in Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Gaelic, and Hebrew.

I glared at the ever-growing collection of those silly trendy designer hats that masquerade themselves as fashion accessories. I mean, let's face it baseball caps aren't cool or fashionable (nor should they be), wearing one is an expression of fanaticism and geekiness. Trumping them all up with weird designs, ugly colors, questionable designs, and an even higher price tag is the kind of consumerism that turns even me off.

That is until tonight when I saw a gorgeous Herringbone Red Sox hat and in a moment of weakness fell prey to its glory. But my strict self-righteously moral view towards fashion baseball caps kept me from throwing my debit card at the cashier and crawling over the till to get at the precious Herringbone glory. Luckily, I escaped with my dignity intact.

Also related to baseball, today all my wonderful MLB-related videos were pulled off YouTube due to copyright violations in one fell swoop. So I've officially sworn off the lameness of YouTube because they don't bother standing up for Fair Use and I'm already annoyed enough about the state of Copyright and all things related to intellectual property. So I'm now using DailyMotion and rebuilding my once brilliant collection of baseball delights. Here's to hoping the French have more sense than us Americans.

Everyone's favorite $195 Million dollar team continues to slide. Tonight the Red Sox travelled to pay a visit to the Bronx Bombers on their home turf and left tthe Yanks smarting with a final score 11-4, Red Sox. Daisuke Matsuzaka gave a stellar performance after some shaky games. Daisuke continues to suffer a bit with consistency as he finds his bearings in a very different game, but he has really consistently delivered under pressure against the Yankees. Scrappy little Lugo surprised even himself with his first home run of the season. The Yankees have now lost seven straight games (including some embarrassing losses to the worst team in baseball the Devil Rays), their longest losing streak since 2000. They sit dead last in the Eastern Division of the American League at 6.5 games behind while the Red Sox perch comfortably in first.

Ronald Blum of the Associated Press had this to say:

At this rate, the Boston Red Sox will blow the New York Yankees out of the AL East race before summer.

Oh, Ronald you don't watch much baseball do you? The season is still early. The Yankees have suffered greatly from some big injuries among their biggest and most expensive stars, and have had bad results turning to their languishing farm system that they abandoned in the mid-90's in favor of nabbing superstars. The Yankeees still have plenty of time (and resources) to turn their fortunes around. The Yankees much-hyped closer Rivera, despite no injuries, is having a very tough time so far this year and the Yankees' plan to depend on him heavily to hold leads hasn't delivered, particularly against the Sox who seem very keen to his game. The Yankees offense is similarly stuck in a rut and aren't delivering the leads for Rivera to hold onto in the first place.

The Red Sox are 4-0 this year against their bitter rival and have built an incredible well-balanced team. I'm not going to lie and say it feels damn good to ride where Yankees fans are used to being and chuckling at the Yankees fans who are surprised or outright deny their team is doing poorly. If this trend continues, Yankees fans will learn what it means to lose and love your team too. Who knows, they might even kick that awful habit of booing their own team. It's times like these that separate the fans from the bandwagon.

These are most exciting times.

The Red Sox are the biggest thing in Baseball right now. We're not talking about 2006 anymore, we're talking about 2007. And the biggest things on the mind's of the baseball public is the ridiculous bidding over Seibu Lions player Daisuke Matsuzaka.

51.1 Million
That's the winning bid the Red Sox placed just for the rights to potentially negotiate a contract with him. The Red Sox with their bid only just beat out bids from the Yankees and Mets.

On the one hand, Matsuzaka is a young and brilliantly talented young pitcher. Pitching in American baseball tends to be dominated by older (often the oldest athletes on the whole team), more experienced pitchers. When a young pitcher with natural talent comes around it tends to be a big deal. But still, this doesn't quite explain the insanity surrounding the cost of just getting the chance to sign a contract with him.

The Bigfoot of Baseball
Why 51.1 million just for a chance to land a deal with an unproven 24 year old? The answer is both simple and complicated but boils down mostly to this:


A little thing called the 'Gyroball' a pitch so mythical, so controversial, and so interesting it was featured in Popular Mechanics! The pitch is very similar to a curve ball, only the ball rotates, spiraling much like a bullet fired from a gun would. Famed to be 'the perfect pitch' that will present a challenge to even the most tried-and-true hitters, given its unpredictable but controlled nature.

There is some disagreement on whether the pitch even exists, is possible, or will make any effect on the game. It would seem the Red Sox leadership, and in particular Theo Epstein, are convinced it does exist and will help give the Red Sox another World Series. If it seems like quite a gamble, it is. This is a very high risk but potentially monumental deal which makes it such a headline-making event.

Breaking into the Japanese Market
Japan represents a tremendous potential market for the Red Sox. As it stands, the popularity of American teams in Japan is based almost entirely off of the Japanese players who serve on the team. Not surprisingly, the two most popular American teams in Japan are the New York Yankees with a history of hiring famous Japanese players and who currently employ super-star Hideki Matsui and the Seattle Mariners with Ichiro Suzuki.

With the publicity of the bidding rights simply to try to make a contract with the young pitcher going extrodinarily high - even for the sport known for its cruel nickname of Moneyball. The Red Sox' decision serves to build tremendous popularity for the Red Sox, especially following the Red Sox 2004 triumph over the Yankees and World Series Victory. With that popularity comes a huge potential to take a piece of the massive market for American baseball merchandise in Japan, which could theoretically make the acquisition of Daisuke Matsuzuka pay for itself.

The Red Sox last foray into hot-shot Japanese players was in 2001 with the acquisition of Hideo Nomo. His stint on the Sox was short-lived but he was very quickly embraced by the fans during that time. Nomo went free agent at the end of the season and left to pursue careers in other teams. Since then, the Red Sox have mostly strayed away from Japanese players given the frequent difficulty Japanese players face translating their skills from Japanese Baseball and American baseball. The differences between the two sports have broken many a hopeful Japanese player acquisition.

Sticking it to the Yanks
If one thing can be said for sure, the Red Sox sweeping in to take Matsuzaka created quite a stir. Especially among Yankees fans were the expectation of always being the highest bidder for a given player isn't an unfounded one. Reactions ranged from surprise, to claims of a conspiracy and cheating. In essence, Yankees fans are un-used to being beaten at the very game they created: Moneyball.

While I am not personally convinced of the great gamble the Red Sox have undertook (and slight worries of becoming more like the Yankees), I am willing to give Theo and the rest of the managing staff the benefit of the doubt. Whatever the outcome, 2007 will be a very exciting year if the off-season is any indication. Baseball can be just as crazy and unpredictable in the off-season as it can be during the season. It's times like these that make me happy to love this game.

Holy God that was an incredible game. So much drama, tension, and urgency. Then at the end with a swift swing of Ortiz' bat the game is over in a truly incredible one in a million comeback. Well, maybe not a one in a million as Ortiz has delivered fifteen walk-off home-runs this season.

Kelsey you better have relished that, since I would have given a heck of a lot to be at tonight's game. I had to run upstairs just to catch the recap.

Amazing. That was like all 86 years in a single game.

Today in 2004 was the day that changed it all. The greatest comeback in American sports history, reversing the fortunes of the Red Sox against America's most well-funded (and rather immoral) sports team and leading the underdogs to their first World Series pennant in 86 years.

Coming back from 8.5 games behind, a deficit we have never repeated since for the last two years we've lead the Yankees and at the very least kept pace with the Yankees with their near-unlimited resources and a penchant for disregarding the rules of baseball. This win changed it all, and no one can deny this game changed the face of American baseball.

The event lead to some unfortunate events, but was overshadowed by the beauty and power that only the victory of an underdog and battle of good versus evil can achieve. At home, it single-handedly redeemed the years of disappointments for one of American sport's largest and most passionate fanbase. In New England it transformed a region downtrodden and bitter, into a place still figuring out what to do about winning it all one more time. It created such a national sensation that pervaded even national television - even in commercials. Even two years later, almost, people are still talking about it and commemorating. That's the beauty of baseball it stays with you.

REMEMBER.



(Yup, that's my Church.)

No photos because my camera ran out of batteries, sorry. I did take them today, though. I went for a lovely walk around campus and through the very depressing downtown: my god it is tiny! Also, today there was no food service in the dining hall and a group of us went down to get lunch and dinner downtown. Today alone, I've eaten in two of the five restaurants. So...very...depressing.

The most exciting part of my walk was the graveyard, which is literally right next to the school and is apparently a 'hot make-out spot' utilized by the kids. Now, at risk of making myself sound like a death-obsessed weirdo or at worst a necropheliac, my love of graveyards is a hobby I mostly keep to myself. Where else other than a library is there so much history packed into one place? I especially like old graveyards since I've always had something of an interest in grave art, something that died in the age of machined and polished rocks. I was simultaneously disappointed and happy to discover the oldest gravestone I could dating from 1820, on that note I am spoiled by living in Boston where we have most of the earliest graves in the country and the puritans made simply incredible graves. Ashburnham was founded in 1720, I think I can find ones that are a great deal older and will be taking more walks through it although many may have been swept out of the way so I may poke around the surrounding woods to see what I can find.

Tomorrow the kids come and the abundance of free time I am currently not enjoying will all disappear and I will learn what it's like to be on the other side of a residential education experience.

• See accurate skeleton structures of all your favorite cartoon characters. A wicked awesome site! [SFW]
  
• Okay, this is the worst product ever conceived! [SFW]
  
• Think advertising couldn't get more annoying? Papa John's shows you that it can and they're willing to go that extra mile to peddle that boxed shit they call pizza. [SFW]
  
• Behold yet another example of the power of USB! Another totally useless gadget! [SFW]
  
• I feel sorry for this guy from BT, he wasn't even a telemarketer. [NSFW, Volume]
  
• Ah, Australian sketch comedy. Runs a bit longish but makes an amusing distraction. [NSFW, Volume]
  
• This will absolutely horrify you, maybe even get a chuckle out of some of you. Those who didn't believe plushies really existed, may wish to tread carefully. [NSFW]
  
• Think playing with RC toys are just for kids? This one electrocutes you. [SFW]
  
• You know the Republican party is in a sad state when people like this can even get endorsed. [SFW]
  
• "Videogame Rumble" An old video but I have a feeling this slipped through most people's radar (There's a commercial before the video starts). [SFW, Volume]
  
• I can't recommend Current TV's (Yup, Al Gore's other pet project), SuperNews enough. This show is amazing, think South Park only even more disparaging! Check out all the episodes! [SFW/NSFW, Volume]
  

Today was filled mostly with yet more orientation. They continued to drive home how insanely busy we'll be when the kids come and how you will get almost no time to yourself. Hah, you can't scare me I can't play WoW so I don't need personal time.

I'm working in the Prep for Success program, which means I'll be working with little-little ones (Middle Schoolers), many of whom are from foreign countries preparing/hoping to come to school in the US. Amanda, the teacher I'm paired with, is very cool and I think we're going to make a great team. We both share very similar philosophies with regards to children and education.

The electives I'm teaching have finally been settled, I'm teaching two sections of Videography and one section of Introduction to Computers. For Videography, I guess I'm going to use iMovie. I have yet to see the lab, the equipment, or the facilities so I don't really know what I can do to prepare until I do. Intro to Computers should be easy, as I am hoping to make student-centered and teach whatever the kids want to learn (harnessing the mighty power of consensus). I'm not anxious about these anymore after they gave one of the Master teachers who 'wanted to learn Photoshop, anyway' the graphic design class.

God, it is so boring out here. There is *nothing*. I guess I always have forty plus years of Doctor Who to watch. Man, do I miss Boston or really civilization in general. I know when the kids come I wont be bored but it's painful for another few days.

Red Sox
The Red Sox are as of tonight on an 11-game winning streak. Tonight we won our second game against the New York Mets and against ex-Red Sox Pedro Martinez. There was talk for weeks about the reception Pedro would receive. The first game against the Mets on Tuesday the crowd began chanting Pedro's name, and when Pedro emerged from the dugout he received a full standing ovation from the crowd.

To quote Martinez:

"I know the Red Sox fans are fans, true fans. It's not because of facing them [Wednesday night], because I'm [coming] here in a different uniform. It's because I saw 86 years of agony for the fans here and they were here every day. And that's why they have so much of my respect and so much of my care about them."

Meanwhile, Yankees "fans" took a break from booing their own team when Rodriguez came through with a home run to win Wednesday's game against the Braves. Pathetic.

Life has been pretty good. Slowly, I've been gathering life, belongings, and clothes for my Internship at Cushing Academy. I received an email saying I am no longer teaching web design and have been moved over to teaching Intro to Computers. I wont say I wasted the last two weeks intensively learning web design, but I would have spent at least some of that time doing other things instead. The email also said they had a desperate need for more high-end technology classes for which we would be compensated an extra $500 for each additional class we took on. Naturally, I offered myself for more sections of Intro to Computers, Web Design, and Graphic Design. If they give me the maximum four sections that I can have that's an extra $2,000. Nice.

Red Sox
A source of great happiness has been the success of the Red Sox who ripped the Washington Nationals (That's D.C for you Washington staters who don't know sports) a new one in a three game series. I attended one of these games with my father on Tuesday night. It was nice to spend time with my dad and we ate all manner of horrible and over-priced things at the park, as you should. On the way back we took one of those new-fangled Pedicabs thingies. I was amused how they get around regulation by not charging standard fares but charging 'what you think its worth'. It was pretty fun, although I wouldn't take one any significant distance as I'd feel obligated to pay a lot.

The End of Zen: No More Moments of Zen, Ever.
This is a momentous day in the history of this blog: the re-launching of my WTF-ish links! I started posting weird, silly, and awesome links in 2000. Borrowing the language of a show which has gained incredible popularity since and become ubiquitous in youth culture. Well, now I'm too cool for that, or something, and have decided to not only rename this section but give it a logo! So, gentle readers here is the debut of the Links of Insanity! Enjoy, this extra special debut edition.

• A Dell Laptop explodes and bursts into flames at a Japanese convention. Craaazy. Must be God smiting Dell's piss poor industrial design. Coverage on the Inquirer as well. [SFW]
  
• Gourmet toothpaste? Wow, some people do have money to waste. Too bad they don't have a book flavor. [SFW]
  
• Warning: Non-morning people will be scarred. The rest will just be creeped out. Can you believe they put this on TV? [SFW, Volume]
  
• Old news, but still fresh: Mariah Carey insures her legs for 1 billion dollars. God celebrities are pathetic people. [SFW]
  
• How hard is it to cancel your AOL Subscription. The mainstream news finds out! [SFW, Volume]
  
• This will hurt. Connie Chung from MSNBC singing a 'goodbye' song. [SFW, Volume]
  
• Ah, Hitler Cats. I wonder why this took so long to hit the web. [SFW]
  
• This hurts me a lot more than it hurts you. I don't even know what's going on other than it's about being peed on. A guaranteed WTF. [NSFW, Volume]
  
• Japan: Where else would they combine useless English with cheesy 80's aerobics? You will be either horrified or amused. (Go about two minutes in for a chuckle) [SFW, Volume]
  
• Ohh, a baby suit. That's surely born from a rational mind. [SFW]
  
• Finland is officially the coolest country ever. Go Eurovision! See also the insane music video, complete with zombie cheerleaders. [SFW, Volume]
  
• This is the kind of crap you'll think is a good idea if you go to school in New York. Utterly useless and stupid, but with a rather hilarious video. [SFW]
  
• This headline says it all: "Brothels and cemeteries don't mix, say Australians" [SFW]
  
• Ahh, Rhode Island. [SFW]
  We've all wondered about different states rank with loss of teeth. So here you go: The South wins again! [SFW]
  
• Oh, they *so* stole this from the comic books! [SFW]
  
• Man steals 60 Blockbuster video games in his pants. Where else but Florida?!
  
• Well, you do have to admit it is kinda ironic. [SFW]
  What happens when a man lives off pelletized monkey food? One idiot's journey through stupidity. [SFW]
  

Wow, what an amazing ridiculous game. Final score was 14-3, Red Sox. I haven't seen the Yankees play so horribly in a long time. Lot's of clumsy plays and so many errors. It was beautiful, and made me feel a whole lot better about the state of Baseball. Money, Steroids, and abusing painkillers may buy you 26 World Series but it doesn't make you infallible.

Ah, life is good.

It's times like these that make me really proud to be a New Englander. As of about half an hour ago Massachusetts became the first state in the country to make Universal healthcare happen. The bill was the object of some controversy but both sides came together and forged a workable compromise (how often does that happen in politics?).

Of the major provisions in the bill it requires all citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be insured, and builds a sliding scale for the cost of health insurance based on income. It builds provisions that both protect and control private Healthcare providers and punishes businesses that don't provide healthcare with the hope that they might be encouraged to supply it themselves.

Naturally, our Governor Mitt Romney had to do something to rain on the parade of everyone who had worked so hard to bring consensus from the greedy pitiless insurance companies to the common man and everyone in between. While signing the landmark bill he also vetoed the provision in the bill which would punish businesses for not providing care, something that Democratic lawmakers are confident they can override his veto with another vote because of the compromise was reached with such consensus.

You make me happy that you try to live up to your name as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Oh, in other news: Guess what everyone...Bush was wrong about WMD in Iraq! Surprise!

(And the Red Sox are kicking ass, with five wins in a row (6W-1L) and first place in the American Division East...Meanwhile the Yankees have just moved out of last place in the Eastern Division and are tied for third (3W-4L)! Steroids and money doesn't always win.