Light Posting Day

Paper #2 of three is now finished so we'll make this one quick. Redbirds Fun has been updated already and I don't know yet if I will live blog tomorrow's game. It all depends on how much I get done this evening with regards to papers due.

I wonder how Demogog, as Politics1 users know him, feels about this?

And yet, for Democrat voting-folks looking for strong political support in a must-win presidential election, Sebelius offers reason to hope here as well. She is as bold—consider her veto of the overwhelmingly politicized Republican push for concealed-gun laws in Kansas last month—as she is solid in her progressive policy approaches (i.e. on healthcare, education, labor, the economy and more). Furthermore, she is pro-choice and anti-capital punishment (and Roman Catholic)—and she has managed to get elected without hiding any of this, here in the same state that houses right-wing nutcase Fred Phelps. Moreover, with the Hillary train gathering steam (something of a Casey Jones suicide run to many party strategists), a Sebelius presence on the Democratic ticket could divert voters eager for a woman to get elected (a worthy cause, no doubt) into a more winnable proposition.

Sebelius herself, of course, is polite but coy about the idea of being a Vice Presidential candidate. “It's very humbling,” she told me, “that others might see me [as a potential candidate]. But I am squarely focused on leading the state of Kansas.” Still, as unlikely a story as it is so far, it can’t beat the improbability of finding a surf shop in central Kansas. And though the plains aren’t likely to revert back into anything resembling an ocean (or even a large lake) anytime soon, Sebelius may—if she seeks it—have a bright future riding the surf from her office on the prairie all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

I got this in my inbox yesterday and found it hilarious.

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavoured mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

Congrats to Eric Streit who recieved the Kentucky Education Association endorsement.

The Boston Red Sox (11-5) take on the Toronto Blue Jays tonight. Josh Beckett (3-0, 1.29) starts against A.J. Burnett. Beckett goes for his fourth win in as many chances. A win tonight means that he would join Curt Schilling with four wins each in as many chances. In 1998, the Texas Rangers had two pitchers win four times in their first four starts of the season (Rick Helling, 6; Aaron Sele, 5). Jonathan Papelbon is sporting a Major League look on his head. Oops, those were Friday's game notes. MLB Press Pass sent me the wrong notes!