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This article indicates that the President can now declare federal martial law on a whim.

If you use OS X and a Palm OS PDA, then you’ll want to check out Pordible. It is an application to convert between text documents and Palm DOC files. It works as advertised and it’s free.

We went downtown last night to see the Colin and Brad Show. If you’re a fan of the Drew Carey hosted show Whose Line is it Anyway?, then you know Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood. Their talent is amazing. I had tears literally streaming down my cheeks.

The show consists of variations of the games seen on the show, with an extra or two. There is lots of audience participation with most games including audience members on stage. The Raleigh performance included one guy in an aisle seat on the front row that was wearing an inflatable horse. Brad brought the guy up on stage for individualized ridicule.

My favorite game was Mousetrap. In this game, one hundred mouse traps are scattered over a portion of the stage. Brad and Colin remove there shoes and socks, put on blindfolds, and play the alphabet game done as an opera. (They alternate phrases, each beginning with the next letter of the alphabet.) All this while wandering among the loaded mousetraps. The performers end up tossing the traps at each other, while still blindfolded, and the whole game was the funniest thing I’ve ever witnessed.

We were having lunch yesterday when a vehicle entering the parking lot caught my attention. It was a Ford Excursion that was pulling into this strip center in the suburbs. Behind the wheel of the behemoth was a thirty-something mom with one small child in the back seat. The SUV was sporting the typical magnetic “Support the Troops” yellow ribbon… right beside the fuel flap.

A friend asked my thoughts about Lou Pinella and if we should even care. Well, I don’t care much anymore. To me, hiring Lou Pinella is the sports equivalent of “stay the course”. In my opinion the man for the job was Joe Girardi. A hometown guy and former Cub who rightly told his former boss to sit down and shut up. That’s who should manage the Cubs.