Fall 2006: Was Smiff still here?

OK, Who Pooped In Dusty Baker’s Dugout Spot?

Jon Paul Morosi has a nice little profile of Cubs manager Mike Quade, but he buries the lede. Namely, that in Dusty Baker's last season in Chicago, someone left a going-away present for him.

"At the very end, somebody took a dump right where I stood in the dugout every day," Baker said Monday morning. "That was the low point. The grounds crew guy cleaned it up. He said, ‘Oh, I think it's dog crap.' I said, ‘No it ain't. That's human crap.'"
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Pat Quinn, the next gov (soon?): generally a good guy, but he really phokked us up in 1980

It was his petition drive that ended cumulative voting, which had succeeded in electing "ballot-rigging insiders" like, oh, Paul Simon and Abner Mikva. Under that system we had Republicans elected in even the most Democratic districts, Democrats elected in even the most Republican districts, moderates in both parties who were capable of working together. Since then all we've had are monkey-feces-hurling cronies.

entering the home stench, or, the entire GOP goes rogue

Republicans in Pennsylvania brought back the controversial comments of Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., despite McCain's admonition that he should not be used as a political weapon...

McCain adviser Charlie Black said his candidate would have preferred that the Pennsylvania GOP not air the ad using Wright's controversial anti-American statements. But "as McCain said back in the spring, he can't be the referee of every ad," Black said.

the coming-unhinged of America continues (cont'd)

"I can't stand to look at him, I don't trust him. I don't like the circle of friends he keeps, I don't like his policies... I'm pissed off by it. I'm beyond mad. How is he climbing up in the polls?"

Then again, what would you expect from... wait... that was k-mad talking about the RezzzziDUNCE four years ago. Sorry.