Dean's World

So, the Detroit Tigers are up 2 games to none in the American League Championship series. They beat the Oakland A's at Oaklan in the first two games, and now are facing them at Tiger stadium. Tigers are up 2-0 at the top of the 2nd.

This is getting interesting.

As someone who lived in the East bay for 25 years, and now is living in SF proper, I can only say that it is my hope and belief that the Athletics will be victorious and lead a comeback which will stun the nation...

That is all...

And are now up on the series 3-0, ironically.

They've damn well earned that wildcard spot haven't they?

Tigers win with a home run in the bottom of the 9th with two outs!

It was like a movie, baby!

Sorry Andrew, I'll try not to be too cruel. ;-)

*Update*:

*Update 2: My Evil Queen is happy too. :-)

Ok, Dean, I don't know how much you paid the Athletics to take that dive, but you must have. So... what topic do you want? And what side do you want me to take?

I made a foolish bet with Dean, and this post is my forfeit. Which is fine. I really do think that History will vindicate President Bush. After all, Gaius Julius Caesar is considered a hero...

American democracy is manifestly failing. The incentive structure which used to provide for good—or at least adequate—leadership is now providing for its opposite. At the best of times congress is as frozen as ANWAR. At worst they eye taxpayers like wolves to uninspected beef. Congress has been halted by partisan disputes; Intercine, insipid, incapable, inflicting incalculable damage upon America’s ability to operate.

In many was the judicial system was even worse. Judges interpreted not the public law, but rather concepts of justice. Their own concepts of justice. Judges have looked to foreign law and non-constitutional ideas to impose a supposed morality upon the American people. Congress sat by. The Presidency was complacent.

Bush was different. He used his own keen ideas of right and wrong to force decisions. His electoral mandate gave him the moral imprimatur to become—in his own words—the decider. He has used his own brand of moral clarity to define our age. Rather than letting problems and issues be debated in a constrained congress, he took it upon himself to bring security to American families. His issuance of secret decrees creating secret courts and secret laws created a whole new paradigm for American governance.

Bush’s decisions systematically reduced the legislative and judicial branches into irrelevance. They became the vestigial organs of public discourse. It would not be for Bush to transform the Republic, but he left the tools in place. When those tools were used, he was remembered as the American Sulla to another’s Caesar. History remembers Caesar, and Sulla, with fondness—it will recall Bush the same way...