Day: July 4, 2006

The Mets beat the Pirates today by a score of seven to six. Considering it happened on July 4th, I’m wondering if any newspapers will headline it as, “SPIRIT OF 7-6.”

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Since the 4th of July is one of the worst days for traffic accidents, we tend to hang around the house. I’m celebrating in my usual style: Working while “1776” plays in the background on my DVD player. The John Adams bear (signed by William Daniels) that I won at the Broadway Bears auction is watching as well.

I still find it fascinating that the entire song “Cool, Considerate Men,” a hymn to right-wing thinking, was cut from the release at the behest of Richard Nixon who told his pal, Jack Warner, that he thought it made conservatives look bad. Truth hurts, I guess. At least the song was properly restored in the laserdisk and DVD versions.

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