At the Yankees-Reds seventh-inning stretch last night, instead of playing the usual horrible Kate Smith rendition of God Bless America, they played a recording of Donna Summer doing it. (And yeah, it disgusts me that they play this fucken jingoistic jeezus freak shitte at ball games in the first place, but whaddya gonna do?)

Can someone explain to me why all of a sudden the “Follow comments on this post by e-mail” checkbox is now default populated on every WordPress blogge that I comment on, and I have to fucken uncheck the goddamn motherfucken box exery time I leave a comment, and if I forget to uncheck it I …

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These orthodox fuckers–like all religious fuckes–are scum: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/nyregion/bloomberg-among-critics-of-brooklyn-district-attorney.html Religion is among the worst human impulses, up there with war, rape, murder, torture, and genocide.

If you really believe your fucken grant application is “paradigm shifting”, 99 percent chance you are a delusional motherfucken crank.

It was absolutely fine that Hamills plunked Harper. And then Harper punished him by scoring that inning. And then the Nats’ pitcher plunked a Phillie later in the game. It’s all part of the game behind the game that adds to the romance and interest of baseball. But dude, they are called “unwritten rules” for …

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What the fucke is this purple thingie??? People homed in on the correct answer extremely quickly, and even taught *me* a few things about it I didn’t know. The first to correctly guess that it is a surveillance trap for emerald ash borers was commenter chezjake. It is hung on an ash tree and is …

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Anybody who can figure out what this purple thingie hanging from a tree in Central Park gets a prize: You get to ask me any question you want, and I will answer it on the blogge.