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Jose Reyes of the Mets has caused a brouhaha that underscores the notion that Mets fans can find loss in just about anything. He brought the team its first batting title in its history (and indeed pretty much the only bright spot in the season) but fans are taking issue with the fact that he took himself out of yesterday’s final game after a single appearance…the better to protect his narrow lead in the race.

I know the old saying is, “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” Well, guess what? This season the Mets played for crap. So I’ll take my wins wherever and however I can find them.

He won the batting title fair and square. He didn’t cheat. He didn’t take steroids (God, I hope not). There’s not gonna be an asterisk next to his name in the record books. He won it. And in a season where wins of any sort have sometimes been few and far between, I’m just not inclined to bìŧçh about how he won it. But maybe that’s just me.

Oh, uh…happy New Year.

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So let’s see where we stand. In recent Republican debates, we have seen audiences cheer for the prospect of a young uninsured man dying in a coma. We have seen audiences cheer the high rate of people being executed in Texas. And we have seen them boo a soldier on duty because the soldier could now be openly gay.

Here’s the question: Is compassionate conservatism dead? Or was it, like other Bush creations as WMDs in Iraq, something that never existed in the first place?

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Got back in from Los Angeles at a little past midnight today. Still tired and not quite up to speed. Went to IHOP for lunch since this is the one day a year I allow myself to have chocolate chip pancakes. Settling in now for cartoon night: all our favorite series are on tonight on Cartoon Network, and they’re all new.

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I’m out in Los Angeles, working with the brilliant writing staff of “Young Justice,” prepping the last few episodes of the second season. While I was there, I was able to watch a completed edition of my first episode of the current season, airing on Cartoon Network. These things are extremely fluid and subject to change, but it’s tentatively scheduled to be broadcast on November 11. When we get closer, I’ll verify as to whether it will indeed be airing on that day. And please don’t ask me the title or what it’s about; I’m afraid that’s secret.

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Random thoughts:

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It might be that a newcomer to “Doctor Who” might be jazzed by the current season. I couldn’t say; having been watching it (on and off) for some thirty years, I can’t rewire my brain into novice mode. Intellectually I know that each season of the long-running (to put it mildly) adventures of everyone’s favorite Time Lord should be judged separately. Yet it’s natural to compare. And if we’re going to compare, this latest season of the Whovian modern era is sorely lacking. Spoilers in these comments are more or less non-existent.

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A few days ago I posted that the next Crazy 8 Press offering, Aaron Rosenberg’s dementedly humorous “No Small Bills” had chapters up on the site and would be available soon.

This garnered exactly no responses, which I admit I found a bit disheartening.

So now I want you all to know that the full book is available at Barnes and Noble, and you can still read the sample chapters at the C8 site below. I’m hoping for better response this time around.

Crazy 8.

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