...and mid-summer. We may go see what 1,000 people dressed up as 1812 soldiers looks like. Bet they are not as pox ridden as back then. Will they have hiding the chewy bar etiquette or do yo ujust get banished? I wouldn't make much of a re-enactor. I'd just want to enact. And then someone would say "did you do that already?" I'd say "no" and then they would get all huffy and say I had no idea what reenacting was and stomp off in the mud.

• Amateur Statisticians Update: apparently that left wing socialist enclave known as the Roman Catholic Church is now against the ditching of the long form? Will the Evangelical communities join in?
• All this interactive Red Sox schedule told me is that they have lost 6 times to lowly Baltimore.
• I love the line “we do pick small hills to die on sometimes.” But where do you get "say things that make him sound like a wet-lipped halfwit”? I don't deny it's truth so much as its meaning.
• Is the new cool paying attention to people?
• Did my rural overlords always lust after the Arctic?
• I miss the Expos a lot this summer. Andre, I suppose. Why did I presume Dave Van Horne went off to sell cars or just lay on the sofa?
• Trying to post in detailed neutrality about a Middle Eastern topic is interesting.
• I now know there is nothing that has not been made into a documentary.

That is a lot for you to take in. But it's a long weekend, right? So take your time. Not all at once. Not the interplay. It's all about the interplay.