GO SOX: We Believed, We Kept the Faith, Now we're going to the World Series

• The SOX rock the Bronx
• The Red Sox became the first team in baseball history to win a best-of-seven series after losing the first three games.
• Back From Dead, Red Sox Bury Yankees
• Unthinkable. An unprecedented comeback; an epic choke. The Red Sox made history by exorcising their Yankee demon in a 10-3 knockout to win the ALCS. Is the curse really gone? Maybe. Here's what we know: Boston's going to the Series.
• Red Sox elimiNation of Yankees complete!
• Believe it: Red Sox win truly a Classic
• Legends of the fall: Sox win pennant!
• Sox crush Yanks, win ALCS

Break the Chain

Company is a chain which binds even the wise. It is an obstacle for a seeker. It smites you, forcing you to return to the womb. Break the chain; wander through the world free of entanglement. Abandon the company which creates fear.

On the upcoming elections

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Little Prince

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..."

"ce qui embellit le desert, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelquepart..."

You just might be a graduate student if:

• you can tell the time of day by looking at the traffic flow at the library.
• professors don't really care when you turn in work anymore.
• you find the bibliographies of books more interesting than the actual text.
• you actually hope your professor assigns homework.
• you have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar.
• you rate coffee shops by the availability of outlets for your laptop.
• you have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation.
• you find yourself explaining to children that you are in "20th grade".
• you start refering to stories like "Snow White et al."
• You consider caffeine to be a major food group.
• You appreciate the fact that you get to choose which twenty hours out of the day you have to work.
• you can identify universities by their internet domains
• your apartment is smaller that your parents’ garage (and more poorly furnished)
• you include the words paradigm and dialectic in letters to your parents.

Porn companies fined over condoms

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- California officials fined two adult film companies more than $30,000 each for allowing actors to perform without using condoms, the first time the state has taken such action.

The companies violated California law when actors performed sex scenes without using condoms. The state law requires employers to protect workers who are exposed to blood or bodily fluids on the job.

U.S. Surgeon General

The U.S. Surgeon General has determined that everyone should get 30 minutes of moderate physical activity five days of the week.

Massachusetts

The commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty.