Boom.

Israel blasts suspected tunnels near Egypt border.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israel resumed its Gaza offensive Wednesday, bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt after a three-hour lull to allow in humanitarian aid. Hamas responded with a rocket barrage. Despite the heavy fighting, strides were made on the diplomatic front [...]

Goody.

Ken Burns adding a 10th inning to `Baseball’.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Filmmaker Ken Burns is adding a tenth inning to his nine-part “Baseball” documentary series that aired in the ’90s on public television.
PBS said Wednesday that the new film, titled “The Tenth Inning,” will air in spring 2010, along with a rebroadcast of the original [...]

Masterstroke.

Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter’s notebook.The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR’-zuhl-bah-kur) says [...]

Sowell speaks, I listen.

Thomas Sowell : An Emergency Review – Townhall.com.
It is one of the painful signs of our times that millions of people are so easily swayed by rhetoric that they show virtually no interest at all in finding out the hard facts. Any number of other countries already have government-controlled medical professions. Yet few Americans show [...]

History of the Middle East—Glenn Beck

A nice short piece quickly summing up the history of the Arab/Israeli conflict….forwarded to me by my good friend Trish. Thanks Trish!!
Enjoy.
Nothing’s ever as simple as it seems, especially this, but often things don’t need to be so difficult. I think this is one of those things.

Which is the bizarre part?

Police seek blow-up doll sex bandit | Oddly Enough | Reuters.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian man broke into three adult shops, had sex with blow up dolls named “Jungle Jane” and then dumped his plastic conquests in a nearby alley, local media reported Wednesday.
“It’s totally bizarre. It’s a real concern that someone like that is [...]

Going, going….

Summary of Findings: Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Outlet.
Currently, 40% say they get most of their news about national and international issues from the internet, up from just 24% in September 2007. For the first time in a Pew survey, more people say they rely mostly on the internet for news than cite newspapers (35%). [...]

In which I sort of give away that I can’t wait for pitchers and catchers.

Home Run Derby » Corky Simpson: The writer who didn’t vote for Rickey Henderson.
I know, I know, but how many more posts can I write about freaking Hamas?
<”none!” cries the crowd!>
Here’s the meat:
Simpson voted for Tim Raines (who belongs in the Hall, too). And his reasons which should have guaranteed a vote for Rickey Henderson.
“Tim [...]