Great QOTD

Q: "What do you expect out of Freddy Garcia against the Sox today?"
A: "A hungover Freddy"
- Sock pitcher Mark Buehrle on the radio today

Buehrle went on to say that he text-messaged Garcia at a bar last night, and that Garcia frequently drank before starts when he was with the White Sox. Excellent.

Ty and I hit 6 ballparks this summer. That's right. 6 ballparks!!!
Here they are in chronological order, and I've even scanned in our tickets from each game. Su-weet! Click on the ticket picture for a full size view. And no, I didn't pay the price you see on the ticket... I'm crazy, but I'm not...





Game 1: Met, Shea Stadium
Ty and I started started out baseball trip with a game at Shea. Shea Stadium is a dump... pretty easily the worst ballpark I've been to. They are replacing it next year. Huzzah!

We got first row, upper deck seats, which were nice, but a bit cramped.

NY Met (and Naperville Planet) ace Johan Santana pitched and he did not disappoint with a complete game win over the Cardinal. Yeah, it's tough to get real fired up at a Met-Cardinal game, but I was complimented any number of times on my "This Old Cub" t-shirt.

Ty enjoyed watching his fantasy starts Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran. Also, it was Mets Lunch Box Day for the kids. Su-weet.

Game 2: Yankee, Yankee Stadium
We did the Yankee game with Brad and Bobbie. Excellent.

Ty loved Yankee Stadium... another ballpark in it's last year. The new Yankee Stadium right next door looks like the Taj Majal. Ty couldn't snarf the Yankee autograph or ball that we was seeking, but he gave it a good try.

The Yankee lost. Dop.
To the Oriole. Dop dop.
Oh welll, that was not an unusual occurrence this year... 2008 was the first year in like 11 years (and Derek Jeter's career) that the Yankee did not make the playoff. Speaking of Jeter, it was Derek Jeter UNO cards night. Marketing gone wild, eh.

We got to see an A-Rod home run, which will be historically cool in about 10 years when A-Rod overtakes Barry bonds. In the atbat after his moon shot, A-Rod got beaned by some mope on Baltimore (Daniel Cabrera), and the guy was later suspended for a few games for his effort.

Game 3: National, Nationals Ballpark
This was the finale of our baseball trip. It was awesome:

• We had front-row seats... right behind home plate.
  
• We also got free food, drinks, and ice cream (Dibbs, to be exact) in the deal.
  
• Nats win... beat the Reds and older-than-dirt Odalis Perez got the W?!?
• And the batboy gave Ty a foul ball at the bottom of the screen. It was fouled back by Adam Dunn, the Big Donkey. Ty reached his paw under the screen and yelled at the kid, "Hey, can I have that?" The batboy smiled and slipped Ty the ball right under the screen. He he!
  

I was text-messaging Chris the Commish to look for us on his satellite package. He text-ed back that we were prominently featured in the telecast, and that he couldn't believe how much I was eating. Hey, it was free!

Game 4: Cub, Wrigley Field
OK, I'm cheating a little bit here. Ty went to the Cub with his Mom... and got a bunch of Cub autographs before/after the game (Marmol, Fukudome, Theriot, I think). I went to my Cub game with Holly and Ed.

The Cub won for Ty, and he was splashed on WGN rooting in the 9th inning for the Cub to hold their slim lead. Shit, we bumped into people for a week squawking about how they saw Ty on TV.

The Cub lost for me and Holly and Ed... lost ignominiously to the Red and Bronson Arroyo. And we weren't on TV. But we did get some Yakzee's BBQ chicken pizza before the game. I'll take it.

Game 5: Cub, Miller Park... yeah. the no-hitter
Yeah, we saw Zambrano's no-hitter... Astro game move to Milwaukee for hurricane Ike... last minute, completely out of the blue... me and the Poap and the kids... total money!

And yeah, it was awesome!

Game 6: Sock, Cellular One Ballpark
This was a throw-in. Ty and I went on the last day of the regular season... not counting the makeup game they played today. The Sock won, with the aforementioned Mark Buerhle starting, to get a chance to play Minnesota in a one game play-in.

If the Sock make the playoffs, then it'll be the first time since 1906 that both the Cub and Sock are in the playoffs. Huzzah!

It was a great summer.
the best... yow, bill

PS - F the Met.

Labels: qotd, sports

QOTD

"I guarantee you that Moore's Law will not end on my watch. Nobody in tech wants to be the guy who goes down in history for killing Moore's Law -- and it sure won't be me."
- Intel CEO Paul S. Otellini from "Intel Reboots for the 21st Century"

Here's Moore's Law if you don't know what it is: Wikipedia on Moore's Law.


Computer power/capacity keeps doubling every 18-24 months, and computers will be about 1000x more powerful in 20 years than they are today.

These numbers make the future a little clearer... technology will continue to dominate and transform society. As long as Moore's Law continues, the (crazy) technology predictions like those of Ray Kurzweil are still on the table.
singularity is nearer... yow, bill

Labels: qotd, technology

QOTD
"It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age."
- Warren Buffet on his $5B investment in Goldman

Buffet is right and wrong: Buffett Buys Goldman Stake in `Economic Pearl Harbor'

He's right that he should buy. He's a zillionaire and he can absorb a $5B loss if it comes to that. He can also absorb 5 years of underperformance on the investment if it comes to that as well. Plus, it was a total sweetheart deal for him as Goldman wanted Buffet's name on their shingle.

He's wrong in that, even if Congress pens this $700B bailout deal, that doesn't mean the world is right as rain. What if the bill passes, huzzah, and then that doesn't solve the credit crunch? Or the dollar tanks? Or whatever?

All this and now global warming rears its ugly head once more: Solar wind weakest since beginning of space age. Now, I'm not sure about the science on how American SUV's cause a decrease in solar winds, but I'm sure I can find a nobel laureate out there the explain it.


That said, I am already pre-bumming... the anticipation of bumming. The termperatures this weekend are low in the 50's and high in the 80's. I'm crossing my tired fingers (and legs) that the weather is cooler for the marathon in Milwaukee next weekend. I'd love a brisk 40-something start at 8:00 am with a cushy breeze off the lake and high 50's by 11:30 when I cross the finish line. Pinch me!

If the forecast is ridiculous in 10 days, I'll find a better run. I hope not though.
cross this... yow, bill

Labels: globalwarming, marathon, politics, qotd

Book: "Cop in the Hood" by Peter Moskos
Review: 2 bill-stars (out of 5)
Website: www.copinthehood.com ... it looks like the author (or someone) has a blog there

This book is a great idea... some pointy-headed academic asks to study the cops, and they tell him, "OK, but you have to become a cop to do it."

The book is a collection of anecdotes and the author's remedies for improving "the hood", his beat in the worst part of Baltimore.
Alas, the book is very dry and not that interesting.

My very favorite story/stat from the whole thing... the guy was on the job for more than a year and he "never locked up anyone for the first time."
Everyone he encountered on the job already had a police record. Everyone was somehow involved in the drug/gang racket. It seems impossible, but his beat in a Baltimore ghetto was that fucked up.

He ends with a comparison of the "war on drugs" with 1920's prohibition. I agree with you buddy, but good luck. We're going in the other direction. You can't even smoke a cigarette in a bar any more: Smoke-Free Naperville. BTW, I faux-eagerly await the "Drink-free Naperville" campaign to stamp out the pariah of drinking in bars... a far more dangerous and deleterious activity.

What about the children!
yow, bill

Labels: 2stars, books

QOTD

"No Americans say that the national economy is getting better"
- Latest poll by these American Research Group guys

1,100 random phone calls between Sep 16-19... such great stats... they should make this shit pay-per-view:

• 0% of Americans think that the national economy is getting better. None. He he.
  
• 42% of Americans think that the national economy will be better a year from now.
• W's approval numbers went from 30% approval in August to 19% this month. Dop.
  

I don't have the link, but it's interesting to note that almost all the other stock markets around the globe are down more than we are.

How is even possible or conceivable that John McCain wins the election with this crap going on?
I know I don't have that vivid an imagination.
sell... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"The Bautista brothers expressed their feelings silently every time the got into their truck: the drove home to their wives faster than they drove away."
- from "Confessions of a Contractor" by Richard Murphy

Book: "Confessions of a Contractor" by Richard Murphy
Review: 4 bill-stars (out of 5)
Web site: http://www.confessionsofacontractor.com (my review of the web site is 1 bill-star... it's a bouncy and jittery, full of unnecessary Javascript)

I bought the book because of the cover. Kudos to... whoever.

This is a nice, fun, light guy-read. The guy's a general contractor, and it's mostly about his relationship with the hot MILFs he works for... well, that and his crew.

The book would be a great vacation read (no, I'm not of vacation). It's sort of like Bukowski without all the drinking and negativity. Sure, I could have done without the "feelings" and especially the cats, but it was still a lot of fun.

If this book isn't morphed into a movie, then I don't know my bid-ness. Which I don't.
peace... yow, bill

PS - Definition of the day: zaftig

Labels: books, qotd

QOTD

"To be frank about it, given the talents of Gen. Petraeus and the talent that he had around him on his own staff, if I look back on it and am honest with myself, they would have accomplished all the same results if I had never gone to Iraq."
- General Jack Keane on "the surge"

Outstanding article on the Iraq war: Why the Surge Worked

Two things jump off the page:

1. The Iraq surge is an exhibition of tremendous leadership in the face of negative public opinion and weasely Joint Chiefs by Keane, Patraeus, and primarily by W.
2. You see this so often in military guys: extraordinary humility. I assume this is a byproduct of extraordinary strength and character.
   

You compare these words and actions to the current economic woes, and the reactions by McCain, Barry, Congress, etc. Well, there is no comparison.
sell... yow, bill

PS - Mini-burgers.

Labels: politics, qotd

I like this quick read... a commencement speech by DFW, 2005:

From that...

QOTD

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom."
- David Foster Wallace, 2005

I like that: attention, awareness, discipline, effort, caring, sacrifice.
I disagree with the "unsexy" part and it's not really a "sacrifice" if you dig it, but I like it.
peace... yow, bill

Labels: qotd

Jeez, it seems like a crank-a-thon over here.
What to do? Assholes seem to be the rule, not the exception.
It's raining hypocrisy.

Here we have (in no particular order of stupidity): the Pope, Joe Biden, Barry's campaign spokesman, and the SEC.
Go!

QOTD1

"Have not money, the thirst for possessions, for power and even knowledge, diverted man from his true destiny?"
- Pope Benedict Sep 2008 in Paris

"Benedict blasted modern society's thirst for these new 'pagan' idols as a 'scandal, a real plague.' The pope urged the faithful to 'shun the worship of idols. Do not tire of doing good!'"
- AP story on the Pope

Hey PB (Pope Ben)... who's wealthier than the Catholic church Popey? Who's thirstier for possessions and power than the Catholic church? Cha.

And why is the Pope talking back-assward like Yoda? He he.

QOTD2

"That lack of charitable giving at that level of income would definitely be outside the range of what we say is normal"
- Some profossir nabob on Joe Biden's charitable giving, or lack thereof

Joe Biden released his tax returns for the last 10 years. He gave $300-something a year to charity. See some very funny blogs and news stories on this:

• Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden is loose cannon, but tight wad on charity ... nice headline, he he.
  
• Biden Releases 10 Years of Tax Returns
  
• Will Media Report Biden's Miserable Charitable Donations? ... um, no.
  

Please don't ask others to throw more money in the till if you're not. Right Joe?
Oh, speaking of which...

QOTD3

"It's time to be patriotic"
- Joe Biden on raising taxes... because paying more is the "patriotic" thing to do, by his logic

How does a guy say this and not get laughed off the stage?
We have a $3 trillion dollar federal budget.
THREE TRILLION DOLLARS!!!
And Barry and Biden want more.
What the F?

QOTD4

McCain is "... cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking."
- Barry's campaign spokesman on the McCain campaign

The whole notion of Barry changing things sinks deeper into oblivion every day.
Barry, you're as uncommonly common... extraordinarily ordinary. Good!

QOTD5
"The Securities and Exchange Commission, acting in concert with the U.K. Financial Services Authority, today took temporary emergency action to prohibit short selling in financial companies to protect the integrity and quality of the securities market and strengthen investor confidence."
- SEC halts short-selling, www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-211.htm

Did you catch that... "integrity and quality"... he he. If you're going to lie, make it a whopper. "I did not have sex with that woman..."

So, the SEC changes the rules of the game, right in the middle, in the name of integrity.
I'm not in any hedge funds, but I can't imagine how it feels to be so screwed... oh well. Right?

QOTD6

"Is that guy drunk?"
- Ty

"Did that guy lose a bet"
- Ty

Both these Ty quotes, from separate days, are commenting on guys running outside in the pouring rain.

Ah, I'm not really cranky... and all these cranky quotes are from a bunch of days.
I'll wrap with a Cranky Bluebird for you.


Smile, dammit!
he he... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd, religion

Hey, there's Bill and Eric on TV at Zambrano's no-hitter. Hi Bill!

Felecia took a picture of her TV and asked in her email: "what did you guys do with the boys?"
He he. The boys were down by the railing trying to get, I don't know, something from any of the players.

The next day, Ted Lilly threw 6 no-hit innings before surrendering a single to Mark Loretta. That ended up being the Astro only hit in two games at Brewer Park. Huzzah!
cub win... yow, bill

Labels: sports

Hurricane Ike moved north from Texas to visit us here in the Great Midwest. It was a rain forest for, like, three days. Dang this global warming... when will we learn! He he.

The coolest thing was that Ike maintained it's comma shape as it traveled up the continent. Pretty cool. See?


Hurricane Ike moved the Cub-Astro game to Milwaukee Sunday night. Ty, me, the Poap and Poap, Jr. were in attendance as Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter Yes, it was glorious. It was the first Cub no-hitter since Milt Pappas' near-perfect game in 1972. Huzzah!

Boxscore: sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=280914118

Yeah, we were there:

glorious... yow, bill

PS - Naperville Planet. LetsPlay3 2008 Fantasy Baseball Champion. Woot!
PPS - Just finished my last long, long run before the marathon. I did 23-24 miles in 3 hours, 13 minutes. I feel good, but I gotta get the hell out of here and eat. I don't want to, but I gotta... gotta run! The Lakefront Marathon is 3 weeks from yesterday. Huzzah!

Labels: marathon, sports

QOTD

"This is cutting edge. It's pushing the envelope. But it's exactly the right thing to do."
- Arne Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public School System

I've seen it all now. How satisfying. I can kick back and relax. Let the world just glide by, surprise-free. Ahhhhh...

Chicago public schools are paying kids to get good grades:

The money is actually coming from a charity called the Broad Foundation. I should contribute. ["Broads". Get it? Sorry.] Anyway, there's ole Eli Broad over to the right there.

Eli has good intentions. "I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools," Eli says. Fair enough. I can imagine something better... giving people their money to choose a school, but whatever.

So, Eli seems a decent enough guy (even though he went to Michigan State... hey, anyone could have made that mistake... he he again). So where'd a decent enough guy like Eli get a screwy idea like paying kids to get good grades. Oh, that would be Harvard University, actually. This idea is "the brainchild" of the Education Lab at Harvard.

So, close your eyes and imagine with me for a second: Harvard University... a roomful of the smartest minds humanity has to offer... dedicated to solving one problem... education... and the answer is... I got it! Pay kids for their fucking grades!

That's a whopper of a whopper.

There's a great Simpsons episode where Lisa and the smartest people in Springfield take over the town... and screw it up. It's heartening to see the pointy heads at Harvard be so lost. Yes? If being smart was all it took to figure things out, life would be a lot less interesting. You can be the biggest brain in the room and still not have a girlfriend or be able to match socks or have enough common sense to know that you don't pay kids to get good grades.

This balance to life... it's ubiquitous. Everything and everyone seemingly has a positive and a negative component. I'm not a God goy, but it's this balance to the universe that leads me to think, maybe there's an intelligence to setup a system with such incredible balance. I don't know.
peace... yow, bill

PS - Sarah Palin. I have heard two one-word descriptions of her that I think nail her appeal: self-confident and normal. These are not words you associate with any politician at the national level. Here's a great pre-veep article in Alaska magazine that describes Palin and her family in more detail: America's Hottest Governor

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD Lou

"I know we're trying. I've got no complaints about with the effort. But you've got to get the job done! We can talk about having fun. We can talk about relaxing. But you've got to get your damn shirts rolled up and go out and kick somebody's ass! That's what you've got to do! Period!''
- Lou after the Cub loss last night to St Louis

QOTD Ozzie

"What we have, we have to fight with. We have to fight like a cat—paws up. If we're going to fail, fail like a man. Fail with your belt tight. Don't tighten it up now. It's too late."
- Ozzie last night after the Sock coughed up a doubleheader to the Blue Jay

This link can't be permanent... some bizarre "whose fans are hotter" contest at the Sun Times.

Labels: qotd, sports

QOTD

"We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes. Studying these and other factor suggests that cold, not warm, climate may be our future."
- Joseph D'Aleo, climatologist and meteorologist at the Old Farmer's Alamanc, Sep 2008

The Old Farmer's Almanac came out with a longer-term prediction of global cooling over the coming years: Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway
huzzah... yow, bill

Labels: globalwarming, qotd

QOTD

"Hello, I'm Peter D. Minus"
- Peter D. Minus, Wheaton financial planner, on his web site

I mean, OK... you get a tough roll of the dice and your last name is "Minus". "Peter Minus".
Do you really think it's a good call to go with the middle initial though. He he.

I love this picture... 1969, Ron Santo, Shea Stadium, black cat, Cub lose:


It's from some silly newspaper article comparing this year's Cub to 1969.
Yawn. Very creative fellas.
Cool picture though.
cub win... yow, bill

Labels: qotd, sports

QOTD

"Angus Podgorny, what do you mean?"
- Mrs. Podgorny on her husband receiving an order for 48 million kilts

Stream:

• Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Murray_(tennis)
• Monty Python skit about alien puddings from the planet Skyron invading everywhere but Scotland (because they can't play tennis) so they can win Wimbledon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySl_Nk_G-cw
  
• The aliens are blancmanges... dictionary.reference.com/browse/Blancmange

he he... yow, bill

Labels: fun, qotd

QOTD
"Let's not play games... what I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."
- Barry oops on ABC Sep 2008

This is the article, amazing and funny:

No, I'm not saying that Barry is Muslim. I'm saying:

1. His oops is seemingly not being covered. I google-news "my muslim faith" and I get the Washington Times and the Chicago Sun Times.
   
2. What if Sarah Palin had made a similar gaffe? Do you think the media would have been reticent to publicize it? Ethically restrained. Are you shitting me.
   

What happens when your candidate screws up? Well, first you call and threaten any news source that considers printing it. And then, any media outlet that does cover it, gets a good chiding by one of Barry's minions (some nabob named Bill Burton):

• "I'm not surprised that the only outlet doing this story is The Washington Times."
• "Printing a blogger suspecting that Obama is a Muslim is pretty irresponsible and below the standards that we're used to out of the Sun-Times."

But Barry's not a politician... he's a, a, a community organizer. Yeah, that's it.
change this... yow, bill

PS - Bear rookie Matt Forte looks like a real player. Talk about amazing...

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"WSJ."
- The name of the new, glossy (re. crappy) Wall Street Journal magazine called WSJ "dot" or "period"

My weekend WSJ had a Cosmo magazine stuffed into it: WSJ.
Let's call this one a "fumble", given the start of football this weekend. Big, glossy, full of ads... it's a fashion magazine.
I could prattle, but let me just highlight two articles in the rag: "The Bling Thing" and "Poochi Gucci".
Good lord.
Fumble! (exclamation point)

Good news though... They completely lucked out and have an article on Sarah Palin in there, done before she was selected by McCain. It's a small blurb on her running marathons in Alaska:

And the bad news... They don't highlight their good fortune or Palin at all on the web site or in the WSJ proper.

QOTD2

"Conventional running is my sanity."
- Sarah Palin, in WSJ "dot" (where have I heard a quote like that before... he he, inside joke)

peace... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"The argument against an Obama candidacy is obvious: he is as green as Kermit the Frog. He is a mere 44 years old and has been a member of the U.S. Senate for less than two years."
- Joe Klein, Obama sycophant, from May 28, 2006 Time magazine

QOTD2

"I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."
- Joe Biden, Barry's veep choice, in response to a question on Obama being ready to be President from Aug 8, 2007 Newsweek

QOTD3

"Where is that stupid dang Obama quote about himself not running cause he's only been in the Senate for a year??? Oh well."
- William T, searching for that stupid dang Obama quote about himself not running cause he's only been in the Senate for a year

Oh well.
peace... yow, bill

PS - Are you experienced?



PPS - Take me back...

QOTD bonus round

"I still dream of the lake of peacefulness
The warm summer breeze
'Cause my life was so much simpler then
Street comers and Tastee Freeze."
- Chicago, "Take Me Back to Chicago"

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"
- Bull Murray, "Ghostbusters"

I watched Barry's dem convention speech with Kim39 the other day. It cost us a margarita, but there's no free lunch. Well, that Barry... he sure is pretty. Also, I understand the significance of an African-American prez candidate.

Two things:

1. I absolutely agree with Barry's initiative to make the US independent of foreign oil in 10 years. We love a goal. I think everyone does. Even if you don't achieve the goal, but come close, the country is safer and our economy is stronger as a result.
2. Barry wants "change". His campaign has branded him as the change candidate. Other than the previous point, I can't for the life of me find one thing that the guy wants to change. Barry says he's going to raise taxes and make the feds bigger and badder to solve this problem or that problem. That's not change... that's business as usual.

Yikes, Sarah Palin is hot.


It's mass hysteria!
I think repubs are too happy happy to have a young, charismatic candidate.
I think dems are too cranky that the repubs have a young, charismatic candidate.
So be it.

There are two obvious questions:

1. How can anyone credibly say that Barry is more qualified or more experienced than Sarah Palin?
   
2. Again, credibly... does anyone really believe we should send the feds more than $3 trillion a year (as Barry proposes)? Is that the answer? Is that change?
   

QOTD2

"I don't know of a single thing Obama has done, except talk and write."
- Newt, Sep 2008

talk and write, talk and write... yow, bill

Labels: politics, qotd

QOTD

"We did alright for a couple-a goofballs."
- SpongeBob

Interesting story (and beautiful picture) about the absence of sunspots last month:


Peace.
buy low, sell high... yow, bill

Labels: globalwarming, qotd

QOTD

"I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier."
- Lance Armstrong after the 2006 NY marathon

I did about 18 miles yesterday in about 2 hours, 40 minutes... didn't really push it, so it was good.
I think I was about an hour away from 26.2.
Now, could I run another hour or so?
I think so.

But jeez, it was pretty hot and sunny out there by 10:00-ish when I was done. I sure sure sure hope that Milwaukee is cooler in 5 weeks. Gulp.
I'm torquing up the training a little bit more than the schedule calls for and going 20 miles each of the next 2 weekends. I'm on the wagon after today's (Labor Day) blowout. Huzzah!

QOTD2

"You're all worthless and weak."
- Niedermeyer, "Animal House"

It's actually a little fun to have a real, uncompromising answer to the question: are you a little faker tourist weener or not? We shall see, Mr. Marathon.
run bill run... yow, bill

PS - Can't resist...
QOTD3

"I logged a lot of miles training for that day, and I downed a lot of donuts. Little chocolate donuts."
- John Belushi, Saturday Night Live skit

PPS - I just found this... Sarah Palin, McCain's VP choice, ran the Humpy's Classic Marathon in 2005. She ran it in just under 4 hours... smoking yours truly (4 hours, 44 seconds) from last year. He he. You can check it out at this site... click on 2005 and enter last name "Palin":

Labels: marathon, politics, qotd