• “To state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in humanity than to despise.”
• The little beauty in the photo to the right was sunbathing yesterday in the woods out back. The photo is a bit blurry, but that’s because she he was moving so fast. (Thank you, P J.)
• Right-wing culture-warrior and Catholic archbishop of Chicago Francis George proudly/infamously said he expected “to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.” The sad thing is it will take another 20-30 years to confirm conclusively that this was a ridiculous, delusional claim.
Anyway, Pope Francis has named George’s successor. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the next archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cupich, probably won’t die in prison.
• Michelle Boorstein on a perennial postseason dilemma:
Man asks rabbi what to do about postseason baseball on Yom Kippur. Rabbi: “DVR it.” Man: “You can DVR Yom Kippur?”
• The New York Mets lost their 81st game last night, so with five games to go, they’ve got to win out to avoid a losing season. In a sense, then, that makes their next game a “meaningful game in September.”
That’s not what the baseball cliche about “playing meaningful games in September” really means, of course — it means being in a pennant race and having a real shot at the playoffs. But when I hear that phrase used and overused so much this time of year, I think back to one particular “meaningful game in September” — and that had nothing to do with the playoffs at all.
• Crowdsourcing medical consultation — there’s an app for that.
• Wound up having to replace all the ductwork for our dryer vent yesterday. It was kind of odd to be using duct tape to actually tape ducts. I’ve used a great deal of the stuff in my lifetime, but I’m not sure I’d ever done that before.
• “… and then after about 15 minutes, you’re spit out into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike.”
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