Take me out to the ball game


That's exactly what wifey and I did on Sunday, it was a gorgeous day and a fantastic game. The picture above is in one of the Diamond View suites at Shea stadium in NY.

The Mets made a nice come back after trailing 4-1 entering the seventh, and the rally began with a leadoff bunt single by Rey Ordonez. John Valentin who wasn't even supposed to start in today's game picked up a pair of hits, including the two-run double in the seventh that capped a four-run inning to help lift the Mets to a 6-5 victory over the Reds.

Way to go Mets!

The Salem Witch Museum

She afflicts me! She comes to me at night and torments me! She's a witch!

Words such as these struck terror into the hearts of Salem townspeople in the early spring of 1692 as hysterical young girls called out names.

The Salem Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692. Visitors are given a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with life-size figures, lighting and a narration - an overview of the Witch Trials of 1692.

Next time I'm in Salem Mass. I will be sure to drop by and check this place out.

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The Village Voice reports:

Hip-hop pioneer Slick Rick, 37, was arrested and locked in a South Florida prison by the INS on June 1, when the Caribbean cruise ship he had performed on pulled into a Miami port.

"We got a knock on the cabin door, and it was the INS officers," the rapper, formally known as Ricky Walters, told the Voice last Thursday in his first interview from detention. A British native who came to the U.S. legally at age 11 but never bothered to obtain citizenship, he is charged, according to an INS document, with having "self-deported" and illegally re-entered the U.S. by working the cruise. The agency is seeking to deport him and refuses to release him on bond while legal action unfolds, which could take months.

Truly unfortunate but this is the nature of things post-9/11 in the USA.

In a related article: Ten ways to keep America safer without trampling on immigrants

Trafficant Expelled From Congress
The House of Representatives expelled Rep. James Traficant (D-OH) "for taking bribes and kickbacks, only the second time since the Civil War that it has removed a sitting member for unethical conduct," the Washington Post reports. The AP notes that the vote was 420-1 "to immediately banish the nine-term Democrat" with only Rep. Gary Condit (D-CA) voting against the action.

He certainly had it coming, he has no one to blame but himself. And, uh ...what was Gary Condit thinking ... or not thinking?

Not Even The Rain Has Such Small Hands

I have always liked the poetry of E. E. Cummings. Who else would write about water falling from the sky having small hands?

And, Wow!, when he writes "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses", what a beautiful, incredibly romantic verse. Then in the same poem he so eloquently states "you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose."

I love the imagination, imagery and verbal skill you see and hear in his poems. He is truly one of the finest poets I have ever read. If you're not familiar with this poem I am quoting from, you can read the rest of it at somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

Political Compass

Ray's pick of the 10 best toys ever made


10. Silly Putty

9. Slinky

8. Etcha Sketch

7. Lego

6. Hoola Hoops

5. Connect Four

4. Operation

3. Magic 8 Ball

2. Frisbee


And my # 1 choice for best toy ever made: Rock em Sock em Robots.

Ah yes, those were the days.

Lucent Technologies Posts $7.9 Billion Loss; Cuts 7,000 More Jobs
NEW YORK, July 23 (AFP) - Telecom equipment giant Lucent Technologies said Tuesday it would cut another 7,000 jobs by the end of the year -- 13 percent of its current workforce, after disappointing quarterly...
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A few years ago, I was offered a position, I declined ... good thing.

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