So, how about that Manny Ramirez? I sometimes go back and forth on my feelings on steroids, because on the one hand, these are “performance enhancers,” meaning the guys taking them were already talented (the drugs didn’t magically grant them the ability to hit a baseball), but on the other, it still feels like cheating. I thought A-Rod was the great hope for a while, as he’d be the next person to break the career home run record, and he’d be untainted, but so much for that. Blah.

Babe Ruth was one of the greatest players of all time. His performance enhancers? Booze and women. Can we go back to that?

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Manhattan: 1609 vs. 2009. Some very cool photos and renderings; it’s pretty surreal.

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I’m watching Rachel Maddow, and she’s doing a segment on Lieutenant Dan Choi, a West Point grad and Arabic translator who lost his job because he is gay. You can guess how I feel about this, but just on a practical level, doesn’t it seem silly to you to kick people who want to serve out of the military, especially when the military has a recruitment problem?

President Obama says he’s going to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. So… can he get on that?

Also, similarly, go Maine!