Progressive is a great co. They do cost more, but they are easy easy to deal with. and they don't drop people. ( we had we had 3 or 4 car accident in as many years- 1 no blame ( I think), 1 part DH's and 2 clearly other people's faults. 3 totaled cars - 1 where the insurance co paid nothing because the car had no collision ( yup , it really was that old). So we pay a lot. but their service is outstanding.

Lynn Swann is on the ancient episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood currently airing on PBS. It made me curious enough to google him and see what he's up to now, since he seems like a thoroughly nice guy. Turns out he's thinking of running for governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican in 2006 in hopes of unseating my man Ed Rendell. Grr. Wish I hadn't bothered to look him up, because now he's in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and I'm snarling at his bad political taste.

Google is a double edged sword.

But in happier sports news: [link]

On Tuesday, Doug Clark was teaching a history class at Central High School in Springfield, Mass.

On Wednesday, Clark was pinch-hitting for the Giants in the ninth inning of his first big-league game.

"I don't think it's hit me yet," Clark said after he drew a walk and was erased on a double play.

When Triple-A Fresno's season ended, Clark, 29, flew home to begin his side job as a substitute teacher. He was in the middle of class, in his second day on the job, when he got a message that Fresno manager Shane Turner called.

And how. I'm still mourning my darling Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty), who appears to have entirely flipped his lid.

Oh, and while we're on Google:

One of our faculty members has been an outspoken opponent to military recruiters in high schools. This eventually led to a wire-service picture of her angrily confronting a ROTC officer that was picked up by papers around the country.

This incited the conservative bloggers, who did some Google digging and discovered she was using her work contact info for her advocacy group, down to work phone and work e-mail. Major ethical no-no. Stuff happened after this discovery that I'm not at liberty to discuss.

Lesson: Google the creator, Google the destroyer.

I'm still mourning my darling Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty), who appears to have entirely flipped his lid.

What's he done now?

I just googled Michael Moriarty, and now I wished I hadn't.

Kalshane, do you get collision insurance coverage? It's probably not worth it if your car is worth, say, less than $3,000.

By Saturday afternoon, many residents were leaving. But as the hurricane approached early on Sunday, Mr. Brown said he grew so frustrated with the failure of local authorities to make the evacuation mandatory that he asked Mr. Bush for help.

"Would you please call the mayor and tell him to ask people to evacuate?" Mr. Brown said he asked Mr. Bush in a phone call.

Uhm, that's just not true. It's a lie. City busses were evacuating Sunday morning, so it's not as if they were waiting on the mandatory evac before getting people out who otherwise wouldn't have been able to.