a baseball break

  I really never talk about baseball anymore. I still love it, but between work and trying to change people's minds about morality (trying to convince about the non-aggression principle), who has the time?

  But the Mets have been playing well. Other than their recent series against the Yankees, in which they lost the season subway-series - five games to one - Santana and Dickey have been throwing great - Santana tossed the Mets FIRST EVER NO HITTER and Dickey threw two complete game one hitters consecutively. So there's that.

  There's also two minor stories of politics and baseball in the news. Barack Obama thought he was getting booed when he had brought up Kevin Youkilis. President Obama had a scripted line by some idiot bureaucrat who didn't think of all of the unintended consequences; he was trying to play cute with the innocent American people who just want to be left alone and to watch their baseball and football. It's really funny that some of the media also thought that Obama was booed. It was Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary, who informed the people about a "Youk" chant could sound like booing. So Carney, who works for the president, saved the president from the media thinking he was booed because of bringing up a sore subject, then made the president look like he doesn't know what he's talking about. Brilliant!

  The other new story is that presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul is going to be inducted into the Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame. His play during his first stint in Congress in the 70s and 80s culminated with what is believed to be the first of only two out of the park home runs.