election day in Pennsylvania, thank God

Tomorrow is election day in Pennsylvania. I really look forward to seeing the results.

I have much more confidence in the voters of Pennsylvania than I have in any of the political talking heads of the "news" media. All they've talked about for weeks is the significance of comments about people who "cling" to their religious beliefs, their guns, and their disdain for people not like them.

What does it mean to "cling?" If you wake up in the morning and thank God for allowing you to make it through another night, if you pray a dozen times a day for minor miracles such as an open parking space in front of the courthouse when you are about to be late for a hearing, or for a safe flight to North Carolna and return, you are clinging to a religious belief.

Is there anything wrong with that? No. Absolutely not.

The same can be said for "clinging" to the belief that you can defend yourself with a gun. If you believe that you can find it when you need it, load it, put a round in the chamber, release the safety, aim it, and not shoot yourself in the foot or shoot a neighbor or a family member while trying to shoot a bad guy. . .go ahead. Believe what you want. Cling to that belief. It's as American as the coonskin cap and the Kentucky long rifle.

The disdain for people not like you is human nature. Just remember that we have a Constitution that is predicated on the idea that all men, and women, are created equal, and don't actually do anything stupid. Others have likely looked upon you with disdain, too.

Back to Pennsylvania. I was at dinner with fellow book club refugees, five of us, and I was the only one predicting that Obama will edge Hillary out tomorrow. My guess was, by five percent.

We shall see. I can hardly wait.

baseball season

I love the beginning of baseball season. Spring training is the surest sign that Spring is in the air, and once the season starts you can count on a newspaper headline such as the following:

"NY Yankees unearth buried Red Sox jersey from new stadium"

You can see the whole story below, but the gist of the story is that a construction worker buried a Red Sox jersey in a service corridor in the new Yankees Stadium, and they had to use a jackhammer to get it out from under two feet of concrete. It was a #34 jersey for David "Big Papi" Ortiz.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-yankees-cursefoiled&prov=ap&type=lgns