Another deep thought

When someone does something nonsensical and most of the world agrees that what that person did was nonsensical, but that person decides to blame everyone else for not understanding, is that acting like a five year old or pulling a Palin?

Two reasons to love Vin Scully

One, from his Wikipedia entry:

On Saturday, June 3, 1989, Scully was doing the play-by-play for the NBC Game of the Week in St. Louis, where the Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs in 10 innings. Meanwhile, Dodgers were playing a series in Houston and Scully flew to Houston to be on hand to call the Sunday game of the series. However, the Saturday night game between the teams was going into extra innings when Scully arrived at Houston, so he went to the Astrodome instead of his hotel. He picked up the play-by-play, helping to relieve the other Dodger announcers, who were doing both television and radio, and broadcast the final 13 innings (after already calling 10 innings in St. Louis), as the game went 22 innings. He broadcast 23 innings in one day in two different cities.

And secondly, for an example of his work doing play-by-play, the final inning of Sandy Koufax's September 9, 1965 perfect game is available here (mp3).

Deep thought

Quitting your job is apparently the first step in getting a promotion -- at least to the Right.

F1 Chief: Hitler "got things done"

Oh dear. From the Associated Press, talking about Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone:

He was quoted as saying that democracy "hasn't done a lot of good for many countries -- including this one."

"In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done," Ecclestone was quoted as saying.

"In the end he got lost, so he wasn't a very good dictator."

Ecclestone also said the West had been wrong to depose Iraq's Saddam Hussein, saying: "He was the only one who could control that country."

I'm gonna go ahead and say it wasn't smart to say that. Any of that.