Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Why the Braves could still use the unlamented Derek Lowe | Mark Bradley - AJC - Bobby Cox used to say (and presumably still does): “If you think you’ve got enough pitching, better go get some more.” This would seem to apply to the team Cox once managed, which believed it had so much pitching it could pay one pitcher to go away. Update: Derek Lowe, banished to Cleveland, has won seven games; no Braves starting pitcher has won so many.
Is Pleasure a Sin? - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - It’s hard to say what is weirder: A Sister of Mercy writing about the Kama Sutra, sexual desire and “our yearnings for pleasure.” Or the Vatican getting so hot and bothered about the academic treatise on sexuality that the pope censures it, causing it to shoot from obscurity to the top tier of Amazon.com’s best-seller list six years after it was published. Just the latest chapter in the Vatican’s thuggish crusade to push American nuns — and all Catholic women — back into moldy subservience.
2012 U.S. Open -- Casey Martin qualifies for Olympic Club -- 14 years after his only major appearance there - ESPN - Martin, who finished in near darkness and admitted he probably should have stopped and resumed in the morning, won a lawsuit in 2001 filed against the PGA Tour that went to the Supreme Court, allowing him the use of a cart in competition under the Americans With Disabilities Act. He had been granted an injunction in 1997 and qualified for the Open in 1998 at Olympic, where he tied for 23rd in his only appearance in a major championship.
Wisconsin Exit Polls: Obama, (Pretty) Big - The Daily Beast - Michael Tomasky - The political outcome I really cared about was the exit poll question showing Obama beating Romney. By how much it's hard to say. The first wave had Obama plus six, then later on MSNBC I saw plus 12, which I also saw here, at Business Insider. The Washington Post put it at nine. So let's be conservative and call it seven. Folks, if ever there was a day in the history of Wisconsin polling that should have shown Romney within spitting distance of Obama--or even ahead, given the obviously massive pro-Walker turnout--it should have been yesterday, which was the biggest and most enthusiastic day for Republican politics in recent state history. Yes, Romney should have been ahead, or at the very least tied. Instead, the same electorate that gave Walker this huge win said it would reelect the president handily. On the presidential level, Wisconsin is a blue state. Let's look at a few numbers.
Miss USA contestant resigns, says pageant was 'fixed' - USATODAY - Sheena Monnin, 27, is angry and has turned in her tiara as Miss Pennsylvania USA 2012. In a note on her Facebook page, she says that she believes Sunday's Miss USA competition was fixed. She said she saw evidence that the top five contestants were selected before they were announced on Sunday's show.
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