A few notes

- The Phillies took two of three from the NL-central-leading Cardinals. Bobby Abreu remains red-hot, hitting 11 home runs thus far in May, with an on-base percentage of .575 and a slugging percentage of 1.067. Unreal. Jim Thome will be returning to the Phils soon, hopefully injury-free, which means the Phillies should start scoring all the runs that they're supposed to.

- I saw Star Wars last night. Good fun. Plenty of problems, of course, but if you just ignore all the scenes between Anakin and Amidala, you've got yourself a pretty good movie.

- It's always fun when people bemoaning bad history don't know history as well as they think they do. George Will, in a piece on history that makes all sorts of weird generalizations, has this to say: "Kagan's idea is not novel. Nearly three centuries ago Lord Bolingbroke said that 'history is philosophy teaching by examples.'" Well, yes, but Bolingbroke was quoting Thucydides. You'd think that, in demonstrating the lack of novelty in Kagan's ideas about history, Will would prefer quoting someone dead for almost two and a half millenia, rather than someone dead two and a half centuries.

And now, back to the dissertation.