Happy and healthy Mr. Spider spins a web!

  Riddle me this: How can our coed softball team--after going 10-10 in the regular season--destroy the first-place and second-place teams in the playoffs? We beat the second-place team 23-0 (yes, 23-0) and then beat the first-place team 16-12. My comment after the games: "Who are we?"

  Hmm. Looks like Mr. Spider has a slight concentration problem.

  Seems it runs in the family.
  Beth dumped a bunch of her Krispy Kreme stocks (after it tanked due to these Atkins' Diet freaks) and invested more money in Cisco. Well, a couple of days later.....

  NEW YORK (Reuters)  -  U.S. stocks dropped on Wednesday after a disappointing forecast from technology bellwether Cisco Systems Inc.
  Cisco, the world's largest maker of equipment that directs Internet and other network traffic, reported a surge in quarterly profit on Tuesday but said inventories rose and that customers were becoming more cautious. It also forecast sales for the current quarter that were short of Wall Street's expectations.
  Its stock dropped $2.05, or 10 percent, to $18.41, its biggest one-day percentage drop in nearly two years.

aaHoly crap! Mr. Spider is a little jittery this morning (and it's a damn good thing I don't spin webs for a living). But the question I have is, how do they get these spiders to drink out of those tiny little cups?

  Dude, you missed a spot.

The Biased Media!
    There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq.  So the point here is, "What's a few more deaths?" Tell that to the families of the 39 killed in January. And also tell it to the 800+ families who lost a brother, father, sister, etc. since the war began. Minimizing the value of American soldiers' lives in Iraq by comparing them to murder statistics in Detroit is pretty sleazy.
    Since the terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaeda, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.  A) Hmm. I didn't realize Iraq was liberated. All these car bombings and guerilla attacks and the rising death toll must be happening somewhere else. B) And if al-Qaeda is crippled, why did we have a recent heightening of the terror threat? Oh, that's right: that was based on information 4 years old. Way to go! C) I will definitely give the US props for helping the UN put nuclear inspectors in those countries. D) I am glad that there is one less murderous regime in this world, but the methods of achieving that goal and the rationalization of attacking Iraq are both suspect. If our true aim was to depose Saddam because of his record of civil rights violations, why don't we have troops in Chad? Or Liberia? Or Haiti? Or even China?
    The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts!  Yes, I agree. The media is biased. Ever watch the Fox News Network?...

  Heh. I sense some good comments coming up in the Comment Section.

  Benzedrine is the main ingredient in speed. And it does indeed look like someone was in a big hurry.

  Okay, I've wasted enough space with spiders.