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It turns out that life in a blue state includes more than just Steely Dan, gay sex in public, and chardonnay with the fellows. How many of you suckers are drinking a $36 Home Heating Credit this weekend?

All my best, from the state with two hard-charging elk on its seal,
Mattbot

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More lost classix…
The Walkmen, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Braille Stars, "Golden Dream"
Sparklehorse, "Apple Bed"

…and the first purchases in over three months!
Bullet Train to Vegas, s/t (EP)
Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (2xLP)
Stars As Eyes, Enemy of Fun (LP)

For some reason I don’t remember Rick Ankiel’s implosion in the 2000 NLDS. These sorts of physical and mental blocks are incredibly interesting to me, and not just because I can identify with throwing 20 balls and 3 strikes. (In my only in-game pitching appearance that I can recall, I walked the only batter I faced. I distinctly remember striking out Jeff Schulte in practice though.) From an excellent article:

By the time he took his first legal drink, Rick Ankiel was already an accomplished major league pitcher. As a teenager he was both the High School Pitcher of the Year and the Minor League Player of the Year. At age 20, his first full year in the bigs, he won 11 games for the Cardinals, struck out over a man per inning, and logged an ERA a run below the league average. He possessed a mid-90s fastball and a devastating curve – the best I’ve ever seen – and his future seemed unimaginably vast.

Then one afternoon everything fell apart. You all know the story: he started Game 1 of the 2000 NLDS against the Braves, was sailing along with a big lead in the third inning, then walked four of the next eight hitters and uncorked five wild pitches. His throws hit off the catcher’s glove, hit the backstop, hit everything but the Durham Bull. It was a disaster, an agonizing meltdown on national TV.

The years since have been both strange and oddly familiar for Rick Ankiel, a ceaseless round of hopes and disappointments, one on top of the other.

The stress is gone, but the work is still there. And it was weird so I had some beers.

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There’s so much right with this auction. 13-year-old drinks beer and champagne, goes on drunken bugling rampage, even makes an attempt to re-cork the Perignon (complete with the "little metal thing") to fool his parents. Punishment? Loses PS2 FOR LIFE. Kids, pay special attention to the dialogue between father and son halfway down the page. It’s a tutorial on how to get caught in a lie.

Parents always "RECOOP" what they lose. Justice, Central Arkansas style.

Developing scandal threatens to make current scandal old hat

The Guardian reports Iranian intelligence used Ahmed Chalabi as the bow to play the US like a fiddle:

An urgent investigation has been launched in Washington into whether Iran played a role in manipulating the US into the Iraq war by passing on bogus intelligence through Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, it emerged yesterday.

Some intelligence officials now believe that Iran used the hawks in the Pentagon and the White House to get rid of a hostile neighbour, and pave the way for a Shia-ruled Iraq.

GOP chairman Ed Gillespie: "Shiv Nadar!"

The Hindustan Times (always on to my bedside stand, under Robert’s Rules of Order, of course) reports the oh-so-embarassing details of the RNC outsourcing some of its fundraising calls in 2002-03:

For 14 months between May 16, 2002 and July 22, 2003, HCL BPO Services ? the 100 per cent-owned subsidiary of Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies ? had some 125 agents working in seven teams soliciting financial contributions for the Republican Party. US presidential elections are slated for November 2004.

Fat people irked with soft rocker

It appears poet laureate Jewel, heiress to the Jewel/Osco fortune, turned in a controversial performance at the Hampton Beach Ballroom Casino. Via Can’t Stop the Bleeding via someone named Brian Turner:

HAMPTON - Gloria Dion wants her money back after being subjected to what she calls the worst Jewel concert ever.

… "People were literally walking out of the show," she said. "As soon as she came out, she began to insult us. We thought she was joking at first because it was kind of weird."

Witnesses said Jewel went on a tirade of insults from poking fun at fat people to others with no teeth. At one point, she asked the audience to yell requests and then told them to "shut the hell up."

"I saw her live in Boston and it was the greatest show I?ve ever been to," Dion said. "I don?t know if she was having a nervous breakdown or what. She told everyone to stop looking at her teeth and look at her breasts."

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Odd that someone would search for a photo of Kurt Spurgeon right after looking for information about pants-soiling. And I really need to ban Kris Humphries’s dad from the site.

The Washington Post has an excellent piece about the last day of NPR’s "Morning Edition" with Bob Edwards at the helm. NPR awkwardly forced him out of the anchor desk earlier this year, explaining that Edwards "is no longer sufficient to bring the weight of credible, in-depth reporting that we are demanding of ourselves." Edwards has been the host of the show since before I was born.