The Wheel: Twitter Tracks: Baseball, Local Election, Oil Spill

Twitter tracks from May, 2010:

2010 05 01 - Congrats to Berkner and Richardson HS baseball teams, co-champs of District 9-5A. One game playoff today to determine top seed in playoffs.
2010 05 01 - Play In May! That's the goal of every high school baseball team in Texas. Two RISD co-champions went at it today. http://goo.gl/miKc
2010 05 01 - Thanks to the entire DMN team for coverage of today's rally for immigration rights. Add "si se puede" to the great American rallying cries.
2010 05 01 - I'm just going to enjoy the spectacle of the Kentucky Derby and all its excesses and not once think of Sen. Mitch McConnell. ... Drats.
2010 05 01 - The best thing about the Kentucky Derby and all other big betting events??? Despite the fact that my pick loses, I never lose any money. :-)
2010 05 01 - I was for Richardson's bond election before, but now I've learned that my alley will likely get replaced if the bond passes. Woot!
2010 05 01 - The Blind Side: good feel-good movie, more a family movie than a football movie. Sandra Bullock was good, not great. Compare with Precious.
2010 05 02 - Richardson Echo letter to the editor: "Don't let Richardson become Bedford, Texas all over again." Ouch! http://goo.gl/etdD
2010 05 02 - Catch Conan on "60 Minutes?" You know how long that show has been on the air? It uses a mechanical stopwatch and a magazine as brand symbols
2010 05 02 - RT @WalkableDFW: "Funny that my iPhone always uses it's and its incorrectly and imposes its will upon me." Yeah, that's my story, too.
2010 05 02 - Headline: "Pope all but endorses authenticity of Turin Shroud." I detect a man desperate to change subject, even at cost of sounding silly.

After the jump, more Twitter tracks.

2010 05 03 - Asked about Arizona's new anti-immigrant state law, Texas' 2 senators refuse to take a stand. Yeah, I'm shocked too. KBH is still a senator.
2010 05 03 - Texas' Gov. Rick Perry says oil leak could be "act of God." He doesn't say what God could be trying to tell us.
2010 05 03 - @WalkableDFW says "real" price of gas is $15/gal if all externalized costs are factored in. How do we get free market advocates to do that?
2010 05 04 - City of Richardson says it's close to a deal with NTMWD & neighborhoods regarding Lookout Drive transfer station. Details, anyone?
2010 05 04 - GOP governors of LA, MS, AL and FL appeal for federal help to deal with oil leak, offering to pay for the effort with tax cuts.
2010 05 04 - Mark's Stylebook: 'Sprinkle apostrophe's anywhere you damn well plea'se.
2010 05 05 - Some doubt about #Lost finale. Either it's going to be 2-1/2 hours long or it's going to be its usual 1 hr and just seem to last 2-1/2 hours
2010 05 05 - Warning to Arizonans: do not, repeat not, celebrate Cinco de Mayo today. Or if you do, wear shamrocks and drink green beer, not margaritas.
2010 05 05 - Mark's Stylebook: You're encouraged to refer to today as Cinco de Mayo everywhere except Arizona, where it's May 5.
2010 05 06 - Headline: "Britain votes in knife-edge general election." In politics, the action today is in the UK. In economics, it's Greece.
2010 05 06 - In sports, the action today is in Richardson ISD, where Richardson, Berkner, and Lake Highlands all start baseball playoffs today. Be there.
2010 05 06 - In America today, all eyes were on Wall Street. On Wall Street, all eyes were on Greece. I called it!
2010 05 06 - Headline: "Humans and Neanderthals Mated." And who doubted we have CAVE dwellers among us (Citizens Against Virtually Everything)?
2010 05 06 - The Times Square car bomber was Muslim. Aha, you think. But, that street vendor who noticed smoke and alerted police? Also Muslim. Oh.
2010 05 06 - HS baseball playoffs: Berkner 11, Lakeview Centennial 1 in 4 1/2 innings. Stephen Spurlin was winning pitcher and hit a home run. Go Rams.
2010 05 07 - UK election results in hung Parliament. I take smug satisfaction in seeing a political system even more gridlocked than the US Senate.
2010 05 07 - Headline: "Robots In Home Could Prove Lethal, Study Suggests." Isaac Asimov must be rolling over in his grave. http://goo.gl/EWPB
2010 05 07 - HS baseball playoffs: Richardson, Berkner and Lake Highlands are all even in their series, 1 game each. Deciding game for all is Saturday.
2010 05 08 - The best thing about early voting? When you vote again today, your votes count twice!
2010 05 08 - Thanks @imccann_dmn for election night coverage
2010 05 08 - Incumbents re-elected in RISD school board elections. Voters want more of same from the largest, most diverse "Recognized" district in Texas
2010 05 08 - All 4 Richardson bond proposals pass by about 4-3 margins. Voters want streets, parks, rec center, pool & fire station. http://goo.gl/0YGV
2010 05 09 - Twice in one season I can say, I watched more of SNL last night than I have in years. Thanks, Sue Ann, I mean Rose, I mean Betty White.
2010 05 09 - You know those T3 trees planted in the Campbell Rd median? They're looking pretty sickly. Hope they survive. Hope T3 gets next ones right.
2010 05 09 - "Politics is the new porn. And Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is a purveyor of it." -- Joe Hallett. http://goo.gl/igVC
2010 05 10 - Richardson missed the boat on Cotton Belt station. Plano has the bridge, the DART station and TOD. Richardson has an isolated DART station.
2010 05 11 - "Paris' Plan to Kick Cars Off Its Riverbanks" - TIME http://goo.gl/q4sa Meanwhile, Dallas still dreams of putting cars on its own riverbank.
2010 05 11 - The perennial bumper sticker that you just don't see this time 'round: "Don't blame me. I voted for McCain."
2010 05 11 - Rod Dreher asks, "Does it matter if Elena Kagan is gay?" Rod says no. He just likes to talk about it as if it were. http://goo.gl/HlLm
2010 05 11 - As much as the SBOE makes Texas the nation's laughingstock, Texans can take solace in knowing, there's always Alabama. http://goo.gl/E6Ug
2010 05 11 - @WalkableDFW, you don't think Dallas has been acting altruistically all these years, do you? Incompetence is good enough explanation.
2010 05 11 - Little Shop of Horrors: Not the musical, the 1960 black comedy. Just as quirky. Best movie shot in two days. Watch for young Jack Nicholson.
2010 05 11 - Headline: "Cornyn hints he's unlikely to back Kagan's nomination." In other news, Pope hints he's unlikely to take a date to the prom.
2010 05 12 - Headline: "Cornyn will wait until hearings to ask Kagan tough questions." Like, why don't you have the judicial experience of Harriet Miers?
2010 05 12 - Headline: "S.C. Gov. Sanford Saw Argentine Lover In Florida." It was funny for about a week last summer. Now, continued coverage is creepy.
2010 05 12 - Headline: "Did David Cameron sleep in a bedroom full of Gordon Brown's stuff Tuesday night?" Now this is creepy right from the start.
2010 05 12 - Headline: "Republicans pick Tampa, Fla., for 2012 convention." So, not even the GOP will go to Arizona anymore.
2010 05 12 - "In 1947, each 100 U.S. households bought an average of about 140 newspapers daily." - James Fallows. Hard truth for DMN. http://goo.gl/GBCj
2010 05 13 - Headline: "RTC to vote today to seek private partner to build Cotton Belt commuter line." One more step forward. http://goo.gl/i9lF
2010 05 13 - Headline: "How not to address an orchestra." Conductor of Richardson Symphony Orchestra earns some bad press. http://goo.gl/Xkmd
2010 05 13 - To @Lady__Madonna, why do some resist organ donation? Here are some answers: "Texas Organ Donors: 451,290 and One" http://goo.gl/rASc
2010 05 13 - Know the difference between a one-hitter and a perfect game? Like the difference between a partial and a total eclipse. http://goo.gl/th01
2010 05 13 - Headline: "Pope decries abortion, same-sex marriage at Fatima." Well, I see that his campaign against sexual child abuse didn't last long.
2010 05 13 - Packing the Court by James MacGregor Burns: History of SCOTUS. Always been a political creature. Has powers beyond framers' intent. Reform.
2010 05 13 - Tyson: Great boxer. One-dimensional human being. Ditto for this documentary. Just not enough to this man for 90 minutes in his own words.
2010 05 13 - RT @brucetomaso: "Bloggers w/ iPhones flat-ass can't do this. http://cl.ly/17uQ" Agreed. Great photojournalism. Thanks for the free link.
2010 05 13 - Congrats to Lake Highlands, winner in Game 1 of area round of baseball playoffs. Berkner and Richardson fall short. Game 2 for each Saturday
2010 05 14 - Wildflower! opens today. Exclamation mark promises awesomeness. Ignore the sour note coming from inside Eisemann Center. http://goo.gl/ZNl6
2010 05 14 - RT @imccann_dmn: "Tree The Town on the Richardson work session agenda..." I hope they'll talk about all those dead T3 trees on Campbell Rd.
2010 05 14 - There's a new blog in town, "28 Square," covering all things Richardson by multiple bloggers. Check it out: http://28square.wordpress.com/
2010 05 14 - Headline: "Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari says he'll coach team next year." I guess NCAA investigators aren't closing in, at least not yet.
2010 05 14 - Headline: "Why iPad apps won't help magazines." Or newspapers. Uh oh. This can't be good for DMN reporters. http://goo.gl/hGSa
2010 05 14 - Call me a worrier. Those T3 trees on Campbell are reportedly being looked after and may pull through. That'll be an auspicious start for T3.
2010 05 16 - Congrats to Lake Highlands baseball team for winning round 2 of state tourney. Berkner and Richardson were eliminated. Great seasons all.
2010 05 16 - Headline: "Woody Allen comes out in support of Roman Polanski." Yeah, like that's gonna help Polanski any.
2010 05 17 - To @WalkableDFW, who is the most influential elected officeholder in north Texas who understands the folly of endless road expansion?
2010 05 17 - Lakers' coach Phil Jackson is apparently more upset over Steve Nash's ball-handling than racial profiling in Arizona. Priorities.
2010 05 17 - RT @imccann_dmn: "Campbell Road planting was 'learning experience.' They underestimated the wind." Yep. Stake young trees. From two sides.
2010 05 17 - On the plus side, I drove down Campbell Rd Sunday. Those young trees look like they may pull through. Promising news for Tree the Town.
2010 05 17 - Just how much money, if any, is Richardson contractually committed to giving to let Jerry Jones host the Super Bowl in his pleasure palace?
2010 05 17 - SBOE wants Texas school children to learn who Phyllis Schlafly was, but they don't care if Barack Obama's name is taught. http://goo.gl/TwLI
2010 05 17 - Headline: "Hutchison 'hasn't missed a beat' in D.C." Of course not. Her pathetic campaign for governor hardly required her effort elsewhere.
2010 05 18 - Mark's Stylebook: Don't call a person who stimulates or annoys especially by persistent criticism a "gadfly", even if he is. It annoys him.
2010 05 18 - Mark's Stylebook: Headline your story "Moon to Dance with Mars, Saturn & Bright Star This Week" because readers have never heard of Regulus.
2010 05 18 - Mark's Stylebook: Never use "chicken fried steak" and "culinary" in the same sentence. Or restaurant.
2010 05 18 - Headline: "Cornyn: Senators need time to review Elena Kagan's history." He suggests at least two years, or better still, six.
2010 05 18 - I don't get it. Why does the GOP, which hates socialism, want to socialize the costs of cleaning up oil spills by capping BP's liability?
2010 05 19 - Headline: "Ancient octopus mystery resolved." The contrived mysteries of #Lost are trifling compared to Nature.
2010 05 19 - The best way to end #Lost: reveal 6 seasons of TV was really just 60 seconds of panicked hallucinations of passengers on a crashing airplane
2010 05 19 - Dallas Libertarian Examiner headline: "The tanning tax is racist." Proving, again, why libertarians are a sideshow in American politics.
2010 05 19 - Headline: "No press in Richardson's press box." Bush league. RISD should publicly apologize. http://goo.gl/9Sgz
2010 05 19 - Headline: "Fresh from win, Rand Paul takes more moderate tone." So much for being a different kind of politician.
2010 05 19 - Baader Meinhof Complex: Another time and place, another generation of terrorists. The problem mutates, but it's still with us today. See it.
2010 05 20 - Mark's Stylebook: Go ahead & run "Floyd Landis admits doping." He's milked denials for all he could get, now let him milk the admission.
2010 05 20 - Mark's Stylebook: Branding is important. Do not call AK-47's "assault weapons." According to gun lobby, call them "modern sporting rifles."
2010 05 20 - Headline: "Cornyn: Who is Calderon to Lecture Americans on Our Laws?" He's president of the country sending millions to USA. D'oh.
2010 05 20 - Headline: "Mark Cuban expresses interest in LeBron James." Thus ensuring Mavs stay in news for another month. The man's a carnival barker.
2010 05 20 - Headline: "Brett Favre hangs future on Southern Miss making College World Series." Thus putting pressure on kids. The man's a piece of work.
2010 05 20 - He said it: "It's bad business to exclude anyone from your restaurant. But at the same time, I do believe in private ownership." - Rand Paul
2010 05 20 - Pete Sessions' National Republican Congressional Committee "Needs Proctology Exam" http://goo.gl/wzK4
2010 05 20 - The Big Lebowski: mistaken identity leads to wild farce. Reminds me of Pineapple Express only twice as good. Only that's not saying much.
2010 05 21 - Headline: "Cornyn Defends Rand Paul's Anti-Civil Rights Act Comments." What Cornyn really said: Candidates “make mistakes and they misspeak”
2010 05 21 - Cornyn opposes Kagan because she's "another person from an elite law school here on the East Coast." Suddenly the GOP values diversity.
2010 05 22 - Last Day To Play In May - Lake Highlands baseball team loses to Belton 5-1. Thanks for the great season, 'Cats. Photos: http://goo.gl/mg36
2010 05 22 - Headline: "Nowitzki expected to opt out of his contract with Mavericks." And Mark Cuban is fined $100K for showing interest in LeBron James
2010 05 24 - It's finally clear. Spoiler alert: the title, "Lost," applied not to the airline passengers but to the show's writers.
2010 05 24 - Headline: "Climate Change Wiped Out Woolly Mammoths, Saber-Toothed Cats." Scary until you realize it's only scientists talking. Scientists.
2010 05 26 - The Devil's work is done by those he first tricks into thinking they are on God's side. Too, too many exemplify this truism.
2010 05 26 - Cornyn would require buyers of pre-paid cell phones to present ID. Doesn't he know that protectors of liberty may need pre-paid cell phones?
2010 05 26 - Headline: "Art Linkletter is dead at 97." You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but people are saying the darndest things.
2010 05 27 - Newly elected Richardson ISD school board member Kris Oliver (@koliver) is tweeting. And so far, he earns exemplary scores.
2010 05 27 - Take the GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test and beat my 90% score. http://goo.gl/O971
2010 05 27 - The word jihad is like crusade. It has multiple meanings, which leads to misunderstanding. Some exploit the confusion for political gain.
2010 05 27 - "Parking lots are probably the largest underutilized depository of real estate in the country." -- Galina Tachieva. http://goo.gl/1A6o
2010 05 27 - Of Redevelopment And Gas Stations - http://goo.gl/9oTq
2010 05 27 - Only magic bullet is prosecuting employers of illegal immigrants, including people attending fundraisers for John McCain. http://goo.gl/Ddwj
2010 05 28 - RT @imccanntx: "Twitter and Facebook tell me that Gary Coleman is dead at least 10 minutes before AP iPhone app does". Sometimes 10 years.
2010 05 28 - Women's Lacrosse: "One team stands between No. 2 Northwestern and a sixth straight national title: top-ranked Maryland." http://goo.gl/5bI7
2010 05 29 - Richardson ISD will offer webcasts of high school graduations. Pass the word to all who cannot be there in person. http://goo.gl/0svs
2010 05 29 - It's a good thing they invented Vi@gra or else I'd hardly ever get any email.
2010 05 29 - We cheered. We laughed. We cried. USM 7 - Rice 4. Final. Conference USA baseball championship.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Twitter Tracks: Baseball, Local Election, Oil Spill

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