As they come into the backstretch it’s Pork Chop and Rasher…

I don’t know why, but the first photo in the BBC Day in Pictures just slays me.

Swains of Syntax

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

They find cover among small patches of natural vegetation, agricultural fields, and tree plantations to the south, near the seacoast.
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen

From silvertide and curmudgeon

Say Goodnight, Gracie

If, say, a Japanese government had performed as badly as the Bush administration has, there would be no one left to turn out the lights.
“The Buck Doesn’t Stop,” by Richard Cohen, The Washington Post, Tuesday, April 6, 2004