Quotes To Ponder:

From Mark Stratton, baseball listguru extrordinaire, on how the beat-up Cardinals did everything right up until the Fall Classic:

"Yep. Sure did. Cardinals were pretty banged up, but since nobody was
bleeding in a sock, it wasn't a big deal."

And from UC Berkeley prof George Lakoff on the Democratic Party:

"Democrats moving to the middle is a double disaster that alienates
the party's progressive base while simultaneously sending a message to
swing voters that the other side is where the good ideas are."

Back with more later.