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The Chicago White Sox got its clinch and not a total collapse! Just this afternoon they beat Detroit 4-2 to win their 96th game of the year and clinch the AL Central title! Chicago can now breathe a little easier.

For at least another week.....

Heaven help our kids.....

John Roberts was just confirmed as the 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, charged by the Senate with the responsibility of leading the Supreme Court and our Great Nation through turbulent social issues for generations to come.

Way to go, Bush. All throughout the confirmation hearings, I kept waiting for this guy to actually ANSWER A QUESTION. I guess we'll be listening to whatever he now wants to say FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

Let's hope this doesn't turn out the same fine way as the "wonderful" job Michael Brown did heading up FEMA, including the subsequent dance he's now doing pointing fingers at every other person on the freakin' planet.

Moving on....

Well, the Marlins have officially skidded their way out of the Playoffs. (sigh)

It started off such a promising season. Guess I can switch over to wearing my Dolphins jersey without feeling guilty. (I haven't decided if I'm going to even be looking at my Panthers jersey yet)

"Serenity" comes out in two days.

Go Dolphins! (at 2-1 I'm already thinking SUPERBOWL!!) (just j-k)

RIP Agent Smart

Man, first Gilligan himself, Bob Denver died, now Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 passed away. Last night Don Adams, a smart funny, and nice guy, died of a lung infection at the age of 82. What a crappy month this has been for people who grew up addicted to television.

I remember Maxwell Smart's secret phone in his shoe, decades before anyone thought of cell phones. And "sorry about that, Chief" came out of everyone's mouth, along with "missed it by...THAT much." He was a very funny guy. I know he did other stuff, Inspector Gadget, and Tennessee Tuxedo, but I will always remember him best on "Get Smart." The sad thing is that a show like that wouldn't last a week today.

If we could all bow our heads and have a moment in the Cone of Silence.

MARLINS REPORT

Well, the Marlins managed to take a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the 8th and still lose, to Atlanta, 4-3. It's beginning to look like the Marlin's season is on life-support, skating on thin ice, hanging by a thread, and gasping its' last breath.

What I mean to say is that they've somehow forgot how to win at the worst possible point in the season. They've lost 7 of their last 9 games, three of them by only 1 run, 5 of them after taking a lead in the game, and three of them in the other teams' last at-bat. At this point the Marlins are 3 games behind in the Wild Card, with 8 games left. It looks like the only way the Marlins get into the playoffs is if either Houston or Philly put all their hands up in the air at one time and say "Okay, we decided we don't want to win any more games" and then go sit out in the parking lot to drink beer for the next week . Probably both teams would have to do it for the Marlins to get to post-season, and I'm certainly not holding my breath for either team to help out like that.

The only thing close to being worse is seeing the Chicago White Sox take a 15 game lead and have it shrink down to 1 1/2. I'm from Chicago, and it's bad enough to have watched the Cubs lose year after year after year (and yet they still fill Wrigley Field every game, which I must say is a beautiful ball park) but even the Cubs never had a collapse of this magnitude. The closest would be the Cubs in '69 against the Mets; 7 games ahead in first with 10 games left in the season and they managed to blow it. That one hurt to watch.

Please White Sox, don't collapse all the way....

Please Marlins, don't collapse all the way....

Please Cubs, don't....oh, never mind, you're already so far out of it.

SERENITY is coming!! September 30!!

I CANNOT wait for the movie 'Serenity' to come out! I loved "Firefly" when it was originally on TV, even if it took four episodes to figure out who these people where. (Fox broadcasted the episodes out of order, so badly that the LAST episode shown was the PILOT)

For anyone who still hasn't figured out what all the fuss is about, try to imagine a brilliantly written 'Star Wars' movie where Han Solo is the main character. Joss Whedon (creator of 'Buffy: The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and 'Firefly') said in an interview in About.com:

http://actionadventure.about.com/od/celebrityinterviews/a/aawhedonS.htm

"The idea behind Serenity in the first place really did have to do with the idea of the Millennium Falcon as a real concept. What if you were that guy, forget the aliens and the robots and the Force. What if you just had a crappy little spaceship and you had to make a living and you didn’t really care how? How hard would your life be? That to me, the reality of that fantasy is what makes it so fascinating and ultimately that’s the benchmark of everything I do. It’s finding the reality behind the fantasy no matter how absurd the fantasy may be."

Now how shiny is THAT?

Rita; Katrina II??

Cat 5 again. Holy Crap.

Luckily we keep having these storms pass us just as they are forming, before they have a chance to get big, so all we get is rain and wind. Nothing like when these storms hit the warm Gulf waters and grow into these monsters.

I feel bad for the people all along the Texas-La Gulf coast. They're doing the right thing; getting the hell out of there.

Good luck; my thoughts are with you.

Rita

Can you believe this? Another hurricane. And AGAIN we dodged another bullet, another BIG bullet.

I'm don't think our luck can hold out forever. I'm certainly hoping it does, but I'm beginning to think that those winters up in Minnisota aren't lookin' so bad.

Shaking My Head Part II

Not to let the monkey off the hook, but isn't that always the way?
You have a bit of extra money, so you blow it on something not so smart, then suddenly an emergency comes up, where you now need money, and it just so happens that the amount you desperately need is exactly the same as the amount you just blew?

Shaking my Head

How did we elect this man to be our President? And do it TWICE? Is there a coherent thought in his head? He can't even utter a complete sentence....

He first says how great a job Michael Brown is doing as the head of FEMA, but then when the truth become embarrassingly obvious that he isn't, George drops him like a hot turd, and acts as if Brownie wasn't his choice for the job in the first place.

And now, after reeling like a drunken sailor in the onslaught of blistering criticism (all well deserved) this guy we call Prez has just declared that the federal government had rebounded from its early failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina. Aren't there still 30, 40, 50 THOUSAND people with no homes, no clothes, no nothing? And today he has promised to lead an ambitious rebuilding program -- "one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen"

I read that budget analysts predict the cost of this massive rebuilding might hit $200 billion, which -- SURPRISE! -- is roughly the same amount spent on both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Guess where my vote would have been to put that $200 billion?

Guess where my vote DIDN'T go in the last two Presidental elections??

HB!

Happy Birthday Alyssa!

What kind of karma is THAT?!?

Can you believe it?!
I finally break down and buy my daughter an Apple iPod, and now they come out with a NEW one called nano!
We bought a refrigerator last week, and in today's paper it was advertised for $30 less!
I finally got my computer working just perfectly, and now it starts making a wierd noise like it's going to die!
With Netflix, I'm finally able to get ahold of DVDs that I've heard about but Blockbuster won't carry, and I just don't have the time to watch them all!
There are finally a few shows coming on TV that I'm interested in, and they are all on the same night at the same time!