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BASEBALL AS RELIGION



Some have theistic faiths.  Some believe in natural phenomena as
the basis for the spiritual paths they choose to follow.  Some
people change faiths at points in their lives when they feel they have
found a truer calling, answer, or path.

Apples, Honey, Caution

DRIVEL, SUBSTANCE, and then some

BUSY ME

Yes, it has been over a week since a new post appeared on DeanLand. Busy, busy, busy. And no posts just for the sake of posting. Or, as a friend mentioned two nights ago, no posts about what I had for lunch. The only reason the topic of what I ate for lunch so rarely makes it to this space is that it just doesn't usually strike me as though details of my lunch is something anyone would want to read.

If I'd been to an intersting restaurant, or had some particularly interesting meal, maybe that would make a worthy entry.

A SUMMER BEARD

Regular readers of this blog may recall that for what seemed like all of May, some of April and some of June, I had the cold that seemed like it would never go away. It took what felt like forever, but finally it stopped ravaging my faculties.

For the longest time I was too sick to bother even considering if I should shave. That lasted long enough for a beard to begin, as opposed to just a few days of scraggly accumulation.

SUMMER RAIN

Among the most vivid of childhood memories, growing up in the suburbs in New York, is the Summer rain.

One Summer, when I was three or perhaps four years old, it rained day after day, or so it seemed, for many weeks through the Summer. It must have been a particularly stormy July, and it made quite an impression on me.

My sisters were away at Girl Scout camp, so it was just me in the house. When it rained, pouring down sheets of Summer storms, I would stare out the window and watch the effects of the rain.

>>First impressions from Jay Rosen (and, as I later discovered, many U.S. bloggers) showed the DNC to be a scripted and costly charade.<<

Scripted? Yes. Charade? No.

Costly? How does one measure cost, if not in comparison to value received? I say it may have been a high ticket affair, but the money was well spent, as was the planning and execution.

The Democrats came to Boston with a clear and defined agenda.

1. Make Kerry seem strong, wise, and inclusive, that he is a leader.

2. Present a unified party with a single and patriotic objective: to win the election.

3.

WHAT THE BROADCAST NETWORKS DIDNíT SHOW YOU

In this day of the foregone conclusion and no surprises at conventions (except, maybe that now bloggers are there, surprise, surprise), ABC, CBS, NBC, and even that excuse for a network FOX (you know, the one with the propaganda outfit on cable and satellite that poses as an all-news channel) decided to skip prime time coverage last night, and offer the usual broadcast fare.

News junkies and party faithful, plus Republicans looking for battle points and weaknesses, were able to tune in via cable/satellite net

IS IT OFFICIAL YET?

The two major political parties have schemed, apparently amongst themselves, to create a changed system. No longer does the popular vote among the party faithful culminate in a nominating convention in which the voice of the party is carried to the floor by delegates.

Now we have an orchestrated system, so that the candidates are anointed well in advance of the conventions. Running mates are announced when it seems most expedient for the sake of news coverage.

HALLE, BRITT, and the FAMILY GOOGLE

Can you imagine someone reading that headline and trying to guess the content?

CATWOMAN. Er, make that CATGUY

Todayís e-mail is rife with people sending links to various URLs covering the gender-bender story of the day.