This is just wrong

Good riddance

"They told me, 'Look, we want you to be our center fielder,'" Hunter said. "And they gave me an amount of money that my momma and all my friends would have slapped me if I turned it down."

You gotta love those "small-market" Anaheim Angels. I'm not worried though—we've got Rondell White part II Craig Monroe!

Return of the "Wish Book"

After 14 years Sears it looks like Sears is bringing back the "Wish Book."

I really couldn't be happier about this.

I won't go into too much detail since I already waxed nostalgic on the thing a couple years ago, but I will say that it's great to see the "Wish Book" making a comeback albeit in a greatly truncated (188 pages instead of 1,978,472) form. There's just something about a real, hold-it-in-your hands catalog that an online experience can't duplicate.

God stuff

I just got done watching this fascinating debate between avowed "new" atheist Christopher Hitchens (who I spoke of here) and Dinesh D'Souza. A highly entertaining and spirited confrontation to say the least as both men are equally brilliant (though Hitchens loses some points for dominating the "question and answer" time and just generally undermining his own philosophy by being such a curmudgeon).

What I liked about D'Souza was his appeal to reason and rational thought in his defense of both Christianity and the existence of God in general. Many "apologists" make the mistake of arguing only in the spiritual plane and do nothing more than quote Bible verses. This is not very convincing when you are sparring with someone who doesn't accept the Bible as anything more than a book.

I also found Hitchens idea of morality and order being impressed on human beings by "reason" and not by the threat of reprisal intriguing. I wonder how that jives with his current pro-Iraq war position.