Day: June 3, 2010

“I just cost that kid a perfect game,” Joyce said. “I thought he beat the throw. I was convinced he beat the throw, until I saw the replay.”

Worth thinking about in the inexplicable hysteria over this tragedy: what would the reaction have been if this admittedly blown call occurred vs. the first batsman as opposed to the theoretical last? Please freak out accordingly. As in: not at all. Perfect games are extremely rare. Too bad that it played out in this way, but operator error is, was, and always will be a significant part of that rarity. Three in a month’s time is plainly a move against nature.

This is also why God caused the oil spill, by the way.

…belief that government has little or no role to play in helping this nation meet our collective challenges. It’s an agenda that basically offers two answers to every problem we face: more tax breaks for the wealthy and fewer rules for corporations.

The last administration called this recycled idea “the Ownership Society.” But what it essentially means is that everyone is on their own. No matter how hard you work, if your paycheck isn’t enough to pay for college or health care or childcare, well, [go die in the streets]. If misfortune causes you to lose your job or your home, [go die in the streets]. And if you’re a Wall Street bank or an insurance company or an oil company, you pretty much get to play by your own rules, regardless of the consequences for everybody else [; anyone that gets in their way can kindly go die in the streets].

Barack Obama as heard by Lemkin.