Renew! Renew!

No, not back to this crap, but just a post about how I've renewed my Nationals tickets. Of course, I could only renew Plan B, but I want Plan A this year. I'm supposed to call in a couple of weeks and see if I can switch that. If not, I suppose the only bad deal is a few more afternoon games that I think I'll be able to skip away to, plus having to buy 3 Cubs tickets instead of two.

Cringe-worthy Doublespeak

OK, so death row inmate Clarence Allen (I'm refusing to participate in the "murderer gets their middle name listed" convention) wanted to be allowed to expire if he had another heart attack before his execution. This was refused. Now, I can see the prison wanting to preserve opportunities for clemency or making sure that sentences were carried out as intended. But I don't think you can justify it the way Vernell Crittendon did:

At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life.

Nope, we will respect life right up until we end it. If you want to be in favor of capital punishment, fine--I'm against it, for the record--but let's not pretend the system we have now treats all life as sacred. Perhaps "all life that has not committed horrible transgressions," but this attitude of pretending this is not state-sanctioned killing irritates me. Again, if you're ok with that as it is, fine. But come out and say it.

Hmm...Not Sure How I Feel About This.

On one hand, thanks to my support of the teaching of actual science, I now have a song about my very own name. On the other hand...I have a dorky song about my very own name.

01 + 05 = 06

Happy New Year! I ain't got nuthin' to say but I'd better get back on schedule. DC Baseball is still a pissing contest, Pat Robertson is still batshit crazy, Alex Ovechkin is still a really good hockey player. Oh yeah, and the state of Virginia is going to allow some DNA testing to see if a man who was sentenced to execution is innocent. Too bad they already carried out that sentence.