The U.S. has no interest in the "stability" of a region that incubated the attacks on New York City and Washington and the murder of 3,000 citizens.--Charles Paul Freund, Reason Online: The Baghdad War Before the War.

Rich beat his own October (hence every month he's ever collected them) softball record despite having been gone a week.

Bowling was mixed. Rich and the cancer codger were really off, and we lost two and won two, keeping our season total at 50%. In the last game (which we lost, but I saved the win for the total score) I had two Zen strikes (visualize the pins falling down, roll the ball so it'll come true) and then a big 7-10 split. I had 133, 120, 132.

Both codgers felt sorry for Dusty Baker's son who was so upset when the Giants lost the series.

Clinton Declares Minnesota His Legal Residence.