Have the Yankees become the Welfare State of Major League Baseball? I’m watching the (fun!) game last night between the Yanks and the Sox, and I notice that almost every coach working for Joe Torre (Pena at first, Kerrigan in the Bullpen, etc.) is a former team manager who was recently fired. (Hey–why didn’t Steinbrenner… Continue reading
Brian McGrory at the Globe gets kudos for helping spread the good news about Father Murphy’s exoneration. He makes a good point, too, about Mitchell Garabedian, and why he should’ve quit when he was ahead: Garabedian has done a world of good for a lot of victims of pedophilic priests, but in Murphy’s situation he’s… Continue reading
You gotta love the guys at the Vatican’s Observatory. They really do…just…like to piss off creationists.
Al Qaeda. They’re not just evil. At his weekly media briefing, Lynch showed brief clips from what he said was the unedited video showing Zarqawi, wearing New Balance running shoes, struggling to handle the machine gun he was shown firing in the version posted on the Internet and aired on television. Another clip appears to… Continue reading
Looking for something other than the Da Vinci Code to read? PZ Myers has just the thing…