With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
October 20, 2006 - 11:24 a.m.
I guess I have to write this entry; it is easy that or crawl into a hole.
So the Mets lost last night. Sigh. Guess what, it was perhaps the best baseball game I ever went to. The Mets started Oliver Perez, the pitcher with the worst ERA to ever start a post season game. He was 3-13, by far the worst record of any game seven starter. So what did he do? He pitched six innings and gave up one run. It was a thing of beauty. He faltered at the end and was saved by a play that was worth the price of admission. The score was tied at 1. Both pitchers were dominating. The Mets had managed only two hits to that point. With a man on and one out Scott Rolen came to the plate and drove a ball deep to left. Endy Chavez got a perfect jump on the ball. He started running at the crack of the bat. He got to the wall and took flight. He reached as high as he could over the wall and caught the ball. He then wheeled and fired the ball back into the infield and doubled the runner off first. It was one of the greatest catches in post-season baseball history. It will go down with those of Willie Mays, Tommy Agee, and Ron Swoboda. At that moment the crowd would have crowned Chavez, King Endy the First. I was excited as I have ever been. Even if you watched the game on TV go watch the video of the catch go to The article on the catch and click on the link to the video.
The game went down to the wire. The Cards scored two runs in the top of the ninth and the Mets got two hits in the bottom of the inning. The tying run was on base but it never scored.
This game is why baseball is the greatest game on ever invented. Our hearts were pounding from the first pitch to the last. Everyone knew the tide could turn on each pitch. I spent more of the game on my feet than in my seat.
After the game Alan ran to the train but Larry and I waited around hoping the Mets would come out to say goodbye to their fans. They didn't but we tipped our hats to them. We tried to start a "Lets Go Mets" chant going but nobody joined us. Too bad. I think most people left the stadium disappointed but still loving the team. So now we'll just have to live by the motto that Brooklynites made their Mantra in the late forties/early fifties; Wait till next year.
So now that the Mets are eliminated I'll focus my energies on another contest, the elections. I volunteered to make calls for MoveOn.org's Call for Change program. I am calling people in contested congressional districts and exhorting them to get out and vote. The people on the list are left leaning but people that probably won't vote. The key to the Republican success has been their get out the vote efforts. This is an attempt to match that. MoveOn does a really good job. You register then they send you to a webpage that gives you a phone number and a script. You call the person then record the person's reaction or say that you couldn't reach them. If you think it is important to have a congress willing to challenge Bush then you should volunteer too. If you want things to change you can't wait for other people to do something. You have to do it yourself. Here is all you have to do. Click on the link, sign up, and start calling. It is as simple as that.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile October 20, 2006
