He's Buddy Bell. With a name like that, you pretty much have to be baseball manager.

His real name is David Gus Bell, and he's a member of a three generation baseball family. His father was Gus Bell, who played for the Reds for many years. Buddy was an all-star for Cleveland and Texas. His son, David Bell, currently plays for the Phillies.

Can we take away Tom Delay's bad crack and ship him to Iraq, where he'll travel WITHOUT full military escort in armor plated vehicles and body armor? 'Cause it might be fun.

I wonder if L. Ron goes/went by that name because of Tolkien's Elrond.

IIRC, L. Ron had been published years before before LotR was published.

The funny thing about the flag burning amendment is that the preferred way to discard an old flag is to burn it.

The funny thing about the flag burning amendment is that the preferred way to discard an old flag is to burn it.

Skipper.

megan walker "Natter 36: But We Digress..." Jun 22, 2005 3:39:36 pm PDT

The funny thing about the flag burning amendment is that the preferred way to discard an old flag is to burn it.

There's a very specific, proscribed, almost ritualized way to burn an old flag -- you don't just fling it in a fire pit with some kerosene and a Zippo.

(I learned how to properly dispose of a flag as a Girl Scout. I am very useful in many situations, including the dreaded "Oh NO! Our flag is too old!" situation.)

Hey, at least I knew who Buddy Bell was.

ION, Apparently, you can't even smoke in your own apartment anymore. [link]

Prohibitions against flag burning always make me think of the RSC rant in History of America (Abridged). (One of them goes off on a rant about how free speech is actually curtailed in all sorts of obscure ways, like how you can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theatre, and eventually gets around to flag burning, and why can't I light this flag on fire anyway? And of course the answer is, "because that would be fire in a crowded theatre.")

The side bar listed all of the things that shouldn't be done to the flag -- print it on paper, wear it as clothes, etc.

I thought that what we currently had was a list of Ways It Is Appropriate To Treat The Flag, rather than an explicit list of don'ts. (I remember after 9/11 reading an article that detailed exactly how one is supposed to display the flag on one's vehicle, if one chooses, and pointing out that most of the available flag bumper stickers are Right Out.)

Hey, at least I knew who Buddy Bell was.

An excellent fielder too, as I recall from some old Bill James abstract. Probably one of his curious surveys noting the upsurge in third base talent that happened in the immediate historical vicinity of Mike Schmidt's and George Brett's emergence.

pointing out that most of the available flag bumper stickers are Right Out

How so? (she asks, considering that unaugmented flag sticker on the bumper that she got in the wave of "dammit, not my country" feeling after 9/11)