This is very unfortunate for a variety of reasons The Seattle Times: Sports: Analyst Reynolds out at ESPN

Harold Reynolds is a great baseball analyst. I enjoyed his work at the Little League World Series, the College World Series, and the celebrity softball event that takes place during the run up to MLB's All-Star Game in addition to his work on ESPN's Baseball Tonight.

Other ESPN analysts have been allowed to return after affronts including peeing from a hotel balcony. Michael Irvin was charged with a misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Despite Irvin's past problems, he was only suspended for a weekend and that was mostly because he did not immediately report the incident to ESPN executives.

Earlier this baseball season, Rick Sutcliffe conducted a rambling on-air interview while intoxicated. Sutcliffe was only suspended for one game.

There must be more to this event. Perhaps it was the last straw in a pattern of harassment reports. It is sad to see Reynolds leave ESPN. Hopefully he will find another opportunity to display his talents as a baseball analyst again soon.

As a fan of the cigar lounge at El Gaucho, I hope that the American Legion post in Bremerton succeeds in its lawsuit. The Daily Weekly: Lawsuit Against Smoking Ban

The Daily Weekly: carelessness (Seattle Weekly)#more

In The Daily Weekly: carelessness, Seattle Weekly blogger Philip Dawdy writes, "So I decided to rely on a mix of Metro buses and cabs and walking. I wanted to see how my work and social life would hold up. Besides, the Seattle liberal paradigm is that we should all be like Bus Chick--a really cute former Microsoftie who takes Metro everywhere and saves the Earth and honors the Kyoto Accords and tells President Bush and Chevron to stuff it.

I am here to tell you at the liberal paradigm is, in this respect, an abysmal failure. Or at least it was for me."

As the Marines say, Oooh-ra!

The American Thinker features an intriguing article entitled, "The African Connection: Rep. Jefferson and Joe Wilson". Worth reading, and remembering, if the Wilson-Plame civil suit ever goes to trial. The discovery phase of such a trial could contain more embarrassing revelations for the Wilson-Plame axis of weasels.

In Hot Points: A blog by Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons, Bob shares his life story and his sixteen useful and interesting rules to try to live by. Worth reading.

The money quote from Deroy Murdock on Iraq & WMDs on National Review Online: "So, Americans in Iraq have found 500 sarin- and mustard-gas-filled artillery shells, live botulinum toxin, cyanide salt, and nearly two tons of uranium. Yet, no, Virginia, there were no WMDs in Iraq."

BREITBART.COM - Plame Says Government Betrayed Her Trust

I think that there was a betrayal, but not of Plame by the government BREITBART.COM: Plame Says Government Betrayed Her Trust

The M-1 Abrams tank is now arguably the world's largest shotgun when equipped with these SoldierTech: the 120mm Canister Round

The AP reports that Valerie Plame and her nutball husband, Joe Wilson, are jumping the shark Former CIA Officer Sues Cheney Over Leak

We can only hope that this goes to trial and we get to see the discovery evidence that the defendant's request.

Full Disclosure - Bring on the press revelations. By Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens writes well as usual in his column for Slate Full Disclosure - Bring on the press revelations. While Hitchens defends the freedom of the press, he objects to comparisons between disclosure of Valerie Plame's supposed covert identity and genuine secrets during wartime.

Garry Kasparov reminds us that the Russian dalliance with freedom is nearing an end What's Bad for Putin Is Best for Russians - New York Times

I especially enjoyed his inclusion of a quotation by Winston Churchill in the opening paragraph, "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

OpinionJournal.com hits the nail on the head with Kimberley Strassel's article, Get Your Priorities Right. The bottom line: solve the most urgent problems, like HIV/AIDS, first. Solve the least urgent problems, like global warming, last.

Personally, I trust that technology will in due course solve both our energy and global warming problems if allowed to do so by government.

Thanks to Doc Searls, I now know where the Floyds were in 1881 http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Map.aspx?name=FLOYD&year=1881&altyear=1998&country=GB&type=name

Here's the link to conduct your own search.

Egad! Will wonders never cease! The Washington Post prints an editorial that--gasp--correctly states that "The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless." Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth

Gaia lovers will find it inconvenient indeed to continue to deny that the world's population is going to increase regardless of the increasingly shrill, dire warnings they issue. Politics have no place in this discussion. Instead, sober planning to provide for quality of life for that future population as well as responsible husbandry of resources are the paths to accommodate the inevitable without devolving to war over resources.

After seeing Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and countless unmanned launches since I was a young lad awakened by my parents to watch them, I've never forgotten the sense of awe I first felt when watching Alan Sheppard's first flight. Godspeed to the crew of Shuttle Discovery: Florida Today: Space


Nice job on the photo, Reuters.