Boyd

Episode 8 of Season 5 of The Wire is one of the greatest television hours of all time (of course you need to have watched all the others to make it so). Made the set up worth it and has got me thinking that maybe HBO's decision to cut the season to 10 episodes was more of the problem than Simon.

In protest of Elon's new admissions policy this year, Jack and I went to see A&T play for free at War Memorial.

As lacking as War Memorial was for minor league ball and its relatively large crowds, with a little money and attention it could be a premier facility for college baseball. The first step might be to replace the leftover purple Bats paint with dark green.

Obama is the iPod candidate - fresh, hip, endlessly customizable. Bet he'll manage the backlash pretty well.

My eight-year-old is on board. Got an Obama card in a pack of NBA cards he bought the other day. Thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Goldstein:

Normally, peer review is a valuable step in the publication of scientific research. Scholars submit new discoveries to academic journals, which, in turn, solicit independent experts to assess the reliability of the work. Answers Research Journal, a new "professional, peer-reviewed technical" publication of "interdisciplinary scientific … research," has streamlined this process by inviting the submitting scholars to suggest who should review their work...

The next-to-last page in this document is titled "Suggested Reviewers Form." The purpose of the "Suggested Reviewers Form," which is to be completed by an author submitting work to ARJ, is to "help the editor to recruit the proper reviewers."

Nice work if you can get it.

Belichick leaving the field before the game was over was one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in sports. Pretty sure he stayed the whole time against Gibbs.