Glen Perkins on MN Game Night…Tonight

Thursday night’s episode of the MNGameNight.com Twins podcast will be co-hosted by Seth Stohs and Twins pitcher Glen Perkins. Show time will be 10:00-10:30 central time. It should be interesting to hear how the show goes, but it certainly should give a good perspective on what’s going on with the Twins; the Rays series, the [...]

From the Notebook

-Finished “Mostly Harmless” by Douglas Adams, completing my run through the five book Hitchhiker’s trilogy. I enjoyed this book more than the previous two books, and almost as much the first two books.
-A knuckleballer and a flamethrower? (RA Dickey and Juan Morillo) I like the way Bill Smith thinks. Apparently the Twins [...]

Terror Rats: Part XVI

1pm, April 22nd
Littleton, Colorado
Gibbons was more enthusiastic about the consulting agency when Smith told him about it. After being shot at, law enforcement, even natural resources law enforcement, had last a lot of its appeal. Smith invited him on board mainly because he didn’t know enough people to fill out the minimum amount [...]

Cytokine storm

Cytokine storm – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
It is believed that cytokine storms were responsible for many of the deaths during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed a disproportionate number of young adults.[1] In this case, a healthy immune system may have been a liability rather than an asset. Preliminary research results from Hong Kong also [...]

Arlen Specter

The guy switched parties. It happens. The only thing to do now is focus on finding a good candidate to give him a solid test in 2010. “The most conservative candidate who can win” is the rule of thumb and I think there are Republicans in Penn who fit the bill. Pat Toomey may or [...]

Circular Reasoning

This is perhaps the stupidest quote I’ve heard from someone supposed to smart in a long time:
“By definition, pandemic influenza will move around the world,” Chan said in the call today. (Margaret Chan, WHO Deputy-General)

“By definition, a nuclear holocaust is the catastrophic introduction of nuclear explosions across the world, so it can’t be stopped.”
“By definition, [...]

Panic Time?

From Wikipidia’s article on the 1918 Flu Pandemic (Emphases mine):
The influenza strain was unusual in that this pandemic killed many young adults and otherwise healthy victims; typical influenzas kill mostly infants (aged 0–2 years), the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Another oddity was that this influenza outbreak was widespread in summer and fall (in the Northern [...]

Baseball Quick Thoughts

The Twins went three weeks without throwing out a runner trying to steal a base. Jose Moralescaught two on Sunday but overall the Twins haven’t caught a lot of runners. Unless you count the fact the Twins are tied with the Yankees for the AL lead in team Pick-offs. The Twins have caught five runners [...]

“Live without work”

Via DailyLit:
LINCOLN’S YARNS AND STORIES
by Alexander Kelly
MENACE TO THE GOVERNMENT.
The persistence of office-seekers nearly drove President Lincoln wild. They slipped in through the half-opened doors of the Executive Mansion; they dogged his steps if he walked; they edged their way through the crowds and thrust their papers in his hands when he rode; and, [...]

Terror Rats: Part XV

5pm Tuesday, April 21st
Fort Worth Texas
Not surprisingly, the two Somali men were picked up not more than an hour later. Out of ammo and bleeding, they surrendered without incident. Dr. Smith also got a thank you call from the Governor of California; Another pair of Somali men were apprehended the same day as [...]