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Today’s question is for MLB Commissioner Bud “The Owner” Selig: LP: Mr. Commissioner, Major League Baseball today named New York Yankees’ First Baseman/DH Jason Giambi as the American League Comeback Player of the Year for his courageous efforts to “come back” from a crippling case of self-inflicted ‘roid poisoning. In light of the league’s apparent new “reward the miscreant” policy,

Warning. Finish drinking whatever you’re drinking before you read this. [THX: felixwas.]

Cody Barstow at Mojo City News forwards on a snippet from a new Ball State study: Another suprising find is that 18 to 24-year-olds spend less time online than any other age group except for the over 65s, giving the lie to the idea that young adults are the most computer literate. Fascinating. Now first, I’ll need to see the

Posted on Wed, Oct. 05, 2005 Google, Sun form alliance By Therese Poletti Mercury News Google and Sun Microsystems said Tuesday they have agreed to promote and distribute each other’s software, a deal that eventually could represent a significant threat to the dominance of their common foe, Microsoft. The terms of the collaboration were vague. The companies will work together

Angela saw this in the paper today: OFFICE MANAGER TRAINEE POSITION AVAILABLE Duties include: phone answering, record keeping, paperwork flow, & anything else that needs to be done that is not illegal, immoral or inethical. Qualifications: General level of intelligence, common sense, ability to answer questions & make decisions, capability to get to & from work without problems & excuses.

For those of us interested in things like Artificial Life and Complexity, this is just fascinating. Fortunately, the epidemic was not real, but the aftermath of an inadvertent digital plague caused by a simple change to the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, World of Warcraft. The change? Giving a monster the ability to curse in-game avatars with a self-propagating, albeit

Okay, so what’s Rove got up his sleeve now? Joe at TMV reviews the terrain…. The cynical side of me is sure that something big is about to happen – I had all but given up hope that we’d ever hear another note on the Treasongate story. But Rove must realize that whatever else is true, there’s a prosecutor looking

Natalee Holloway’s mother, Beth Twitty, is on GMA right now. Let me say that yes it’s a tragedy, yes it’s horrible that this girl has disappeared, etc., and I can certainly imagine how nuts I’d be if it were my daughter. But: anybody besides me getting sick of this damned woman and the fact that every TV outlet in the

FEMA is hiring Brownie back as a consultant to offer up his wisdom on Katrina issues. Good for America! [THX: TMV rules.]

The old “lungs quit working” trick. Second time I’ve fallen for that this week… RIP, Don. We miss you already.

drdenny questions the business savvy of newspaper industry execs, and if anything, is kinder than he needs to be. I posted a comment in his entry, but wanted to drag those remarks out to the top here. _____________ Right. They don’t understand journalism. Audiences. Nada. But, as you suggest, they also don’t understand some basics of business. This is like

Hmmm. Biggest punks in NFL history. Help me out here. I have a few nominees. QB: Jeff George WR: Randy Moss WR: TO RB: Lawrence Phillips Other nominations?

Hal Crowther is one of the finest writers in America today without a doubt, and in his current Independent Weekly essay, he offers an homage to New Orleans and an unforgiving analysis of how government (and not just the Bushies, either) has failed it – and the rest of us – in the wake of Katrina.

Damn Downeasters. Might as well have been born without tongues for all they know about barbecue. Thank God it’s America, where taste-challenged mopes like them have the inalienable right to eat like whatever kind of trash animal they want. God bless Lexington. God bless Pig Pickin’s in Winston-Salem. And may God have mercy on the rest of you. Good night.

Today’s question, along with some special bonus gratuitous follow-on rantings, are directed to Pope Palpatine Benedict XVI. LP: Your Holiness, according to a new report, “homosexuals, even those who are celibate, will be barred from becoming Roman Catholic priests under stricter rules soon to be released.” Our question is this: under these new guidelines, where will the Church find new