More Late Night Musings

I took in a ballgame tonight and saw a 12-run 9th inning and watched rookie pitcher Heath Phillips improve his record to 1-1 and drop his career ERA from 13.5 to 5.40. Lance Broadway made his major league debut and can honestly say he's struck out half the batters he's faced and owns the lowest ERA in baseball. None of this is particularly important but just an explanation of what I was doing instead of scouring the Internet for the most trenchant and fascinating links to pass along to you. I do have a couple, though.

I meant to mention this last night but got carried away in my indifference to Fred Thompson's lackluster sexual appeal. You'd think that conservatives who've been waiting for him to jump into the race for the presidency, but, well, you'd be wrong. They want Petraeus in the running, too.

Osama bin Laden is back with a new videotape, which forces a question I've had for a little while. Wasn't the point of the old TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive that Steve McQueen actually caught the people he went after? Just wondering.

It's a good thing the powers that be are telling us that the economy remains pretty solid, because otherwise I'd think that a record number of foreclosures on new mortgages and the first monthly drop in jobs in four years added up to a one-two punch of some sort or another.