The NL West was the best division in the National League this year, and it’s two top teams, the Diamondbacks and the Rockies — with the two best records in the NL — will now face off in the NLCS. In a short series, having Brandon Webb is a huge plus for the D-Backs. Having 8 days off in between starts, however, is not the optimal situation for a sinker

I think it’s good that they’re still looking into this issue; wouldn’t want the existence of such a thing to ossify into a consensus, like global warming or some Shi’a interpretation of the Koran, right Ahmadinejad? Because that would just be crazy.

the Hillary camp fears: The company run by one of Hillary Clinton’s top campaign officials has been providing public-relations services for Blackwater – the security firm, accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians, that has come under fire from Congress. Burson-Marsteller, run by Clinton pollster Mark Penn, has been representing the troubled security firm in the lead-up to congressional testimony this week in which top company officials defended their policies and

Guardian enthuses, might be solution to global warming!!! GM foods, though . . . BAD.

Yesterday, I highlighted a beautifully even-handed NYT op-ed that argues that due to his feelings regarding the “high-tech lynching” attempted on him, Clarence Thomas ought to recuse himself from a variety of cases.  Today, the NY Post applies the same argument to Chris Matthews, political starfucker.

by which I mean TRex of FDL, has cross-posted a piece at AlterNet and sent out little emails to his cohort, urging them to rebuff the absurd implication that people who differ with them politically over “equal protection” for homosexuals–by which I think he can only mean illegalizing any resistance to “gay marriage”–may not be rankly hypocritical gay-bashers.   Once again, Jeff is mentioned by name, but not me, and in the