25. May, 2004 - Saints season started

• The PiPress says the Saints have warm welcome down cold and talk about last night’s home opener. It was a good one, with the only real worry being when Chris Chavez had a rough outing and put the tying run on-base after coming in with a 4-run lead. And the Section F Fund got press (where we take up a collection for the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation on Saints home runs), which is kinda nice. But it was cold out there last night, and will probably be chilly again this evening. I’m ready for more of the 80-degree weather we were seeing back in March. [press-patch]
• Baseball’s full of freak injuries and ESPN’s got a list of some of the freakier ones. Funny stuff, as long as it doesn’t happen to you… [fark!]
• Greens endorse House candidate is the headline, but the significant news to me is that Kari Tauring failed to get the endorsement. The Strib says it was close – I’m told that close is an understatement. Kari failed to get the neccessary 2⁄3 of delegates by one vote. [jim]
• Wally Watch keeps an eye on the representative from California’s Second Congressional District, the Honorable Wally Herger. It’s a brilliant idea, and I’m tempted to set up a few group-blogs to track Sabo, Coleman and Dayton. The only problem is that I could easily see that turning into a full-time job. I could also see it running into trouble with election laws if I were to take any money for it. So what do you think? Would you be interested in reading such a thing? Would you be interested in helping? Drop me a note.
  Then again, maybe the good thing to do is just build a directory of everyone else who’s doing this sort of thing. One blog for each of the 435 representatives, 100 senators, and all the elected officials. It would be a political wet-dream to have every elected official being watched by a few citizens. Much better than trying to dig their voting records out of Thomas [boing boing]
• Dancing With Myself is the story of someone who too DDR too far. It’s not just some little stompy-stompy crap, he says. It can go crazy on you. Then again that DDR thing is helping Video game fans dance off extra pounds, which probably isn’t a bad thing. [boing boing]
• Huh. This post on Celebrating Iraqi style (by an Iraqi) explains why Iraqis fire their weapons into the air to celebrate, and points out that on Thursdays (the usual wedding day for Iraqis) you will have to remain indoors because of the ridiculous amount of gun fire in the air. [101-280]

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