No baseball today.

The Red Sox are having a difficult time crossing that 500 mark. They just can't string together a collection of hits at the right time. They can get on base but they don't touch home plate.

This is not going well....

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I decided that I would give you a visual "Only in Florida" today:

Yes, that is a Florida license plate.

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Time for another episode of Mr. Optimism.

I was driving to work this morning, looking at my opponents lawn signs along the way, and it occurred to me that if everyone with a lawn sign is voting for my opponents, everyone without a lawn sign must be voting for me!

This has been another episode of Mr. Optimism.

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You might like these links:

• More proof that there is something very wrong with our species.



• I do not want any news story or obituary about me to ever contain the line, "He was killed by a toilet."



• Only in New Jersey.



• Key photo caption in this story: "A rare picture of antechinus on top of something other than another antechinus."



• Key phrase in this video: "911 OR NOT?"



• Oh, Canada.



• For the record, I would not be happy if my belly button exploded.