• metaphysical point

    I’ve been blogging with RedState.org for about eight months, and it’s been down all day. I know only that “they’re working on it.” I’ve seen that grow and make changes, I’ve seen it accept incredible traffic on its hottest days, and I’ve seen Clayton Wagar, their tech guy and one of the RedState directors, have it do things which I hadn’t thought possible.

    There’s an emptiness. My own blog was down for a day way back when I was doing this with Blogger, but I counted that as no great loss to the mass of conservative intellect. Life continued without Mark A. Kilmer’s Political Annotation, but would it without RedState?

    Metaphysically, I posit, it would not. Things might appear to be what they are, but on a different level, they would not be. Not in the continuous sense of being, which is a dynamic thing and never in a vacuum or void.

    — UPDATE: It’s live again.

  • Sunday shows.

    The preview is below. I’ll watch them and review them, both for the Rightsided Newsletter and for RedState. If you would like them delivered to your Inbox, subscribe to the free newsletter by sending a blank e-mail to rsn-subscribe[AT]topica.com. Your address is safe with me.

  • The state of the Yankees.

    This afternoon, Shawn Chacon, who became a Yankee out of the team’s desperation, after having gone 1-7 this year with Colorado, pitched 6 innings and gave up no earned runs. Torre yanked him after 6, seemingly for no reason, and the Yanks fell apart behind Felix Rodriquez and Mike Embree, and Flash Gordon came in and gave up 4 runs. It had been 3-1 Yanks after 6, then it was 5-3 Angels after 6 1/2,. Angels got 2 in the top of the 8th, and Giambi’s two run homer made it 7-5 after 8.

    Mariano shut down the Angels the rest of the way, and the Yankees rallied for 3 runs in the bottom of the ninth to win the game, 8-7.

    Great victory, and Sterling had to stop, breath in quick, and continue his THEEEEEEEEEEEEE before YANKEES WIN!

  • Tonight’s music.

    I listened to two hours of Mary McPartland’s Piano Jazz earlier this evening, streaming out of WBFO in Buffalo.