Here’s a great piece about political conspiracy theories on the left. [The New Republic]

Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,

Say what you like about the Cardinals, but they cover things up the right...

Did you miss the underage girl thing?

A racist and a homophobe. If only you could have found an antisemite to add to this list.

Or his brother Franck.

WAA is a little misleading in this case, isn’t it? Anyone with a positive WAA is a better than average major leaguer. So another way of putting “Wheeler has contributed less than half Beltran’s WAA” is that they traded 44 games of Beltran for two (so far) years of an above average player on minimum salary. It’s just…

When he attacks Hilary or Obama HE’s offending more than half of his country. Do you expect higher standards from a basketball coach than from the president you voted for?

Can we mock him for stealing the late Stephen Jay Gould’s moustache? And for the moustache having more scientific knowledge than the rest of him?

The king of them all:

Wasn’t really worth setting up a burner just for that comment, was it?

He doesn’t deserve capitals. When he acts like a big boy, he’ll get big boy letters.

It’s a call for harmony between Christians and Jews:

“Vroom vroom, I am was killed by a truck!”

At the charity I work in England one of our volunteers is an elderly Iranian widow with no children whose closest relative, her brother, lives in Nevada. Every two or three years she has gone over for a week or so to visit him and enjoy the warmth (even after thirty years here she still suffers from the cold).

Anyone done the “Blass tried to throw them out the door but they ended up hitting the backstop” joke yet?

I see what you mean

If only they hadn’t cut Drake Laroche last year.

But I can’t imagine (perhaps it’s just hope) that museum curators would take kindly to being told what to display. Like librarians, whatever their views they would defend their independence and I imagine the pushback could be quite entertaining.

You say Jihad; I say bulwark of democracy. But I’m just “blinded by partisan rage,” I suppose.