IN PRAISE OF CURRENT YOUNG WOMEN'S SUMMER FASHIONS: The spaghetti straps with the butt-emphasizing jeans? Or with the butt-emphasizing pants that are a little baggy in the legs? Good golly gosh. You used to read jokes in your older science fiction books about some poor slob coming back from the future and it's horrible, a police state run by extraterrestrials, but there's some quip like, "But at least the miniskirts are back." But the miniskirts aren't coming back, gentlemen, and you don't want them back. They were ridiculous--no woman could sit down in those things. They were unsubtle. They were products of their time, but that was the sexual revolution and it's over. Nobody wants to look like a hooker anymore. The butt-emphasizing pants give you the butt and preserve the butt's modesty at the exact same time. They are the perfect pants for our post-feminist age. It's "post-feminism" because feminism won, by the way.

Anyway, the physics isn't that bad thus far--it seems like a math class, and I'm generally good with math. I did all the homework, I undestood it, the practice test seemed reasonable. I'm okay for tomorrow.

And today I secured a couple of rec letters for med school. I swallowed my vast fear and it was easy. My professors were understanding. They do it all the time. I had nothing to worry about as far as this part of the application process goes.

Comrade Blow Hard retired again. I tend to think he'll be back pretty quick, but he does want to get his vast propaganda epic done. Good luck, Jer. Your people need a beacon to codify the rightness of their daily lives under your rule.

Eric McErlain on why Japanese baseball stinks.

Edwards was a good pick. Edwards was the obvious pick. Well--more like Gephart was the wrong pick. Dick vs. Dick would've been a wash, but Edwards vs. Dick is no contest. Edwards is the kind of guy Dick hires to argue things in courtrooms where Dick's presence tends to turn off jurors, as well as the way the temperature drops when Dick enters the room and you can suddenly hear the wailing of damned souls. Because he's....evil....yeah. And he only uses one side of his mouth to talk and I don't think he has Bell's palsy or anything.

Good night, sweet Internet.