The Warm, Fuzzy Side of Blogs: Bygone Baseball Curses and Electoral Kids

How about those Red Sox? Bloggers who were tuned into the Yankees vs. Red Sox showdown were active this week, wowed not only by Sox pitcher Curt Schilling but by the team's record-breaking come-from-behind wins in the American league playoffs.

As for the youth movement, Nickelodeon news host Linda Ellerbee jumped to the top of BlogPulse's top people based on the results of Nickelodeon's mock youth vote. Noting that Nick's kids have correctly picked the Presidential winner in the last four elections, Nick News announced that Kerry won this year's contest with 57% of the vote; incumbent President Bush got 44%. (Although one astute child observed that in 2000, the kids chose Bush, while Al Gore actually won the popular vote).

On the adult political front, some of us wonder why and how Pat Robertson continues to be sought out as an "expert," but that's another essay. His comments to CNN newswoman Paula Zahn are drawing fire from all sides -- Democrats who are using it as more proof that the Bush Administration rushed into the war in Iraq unprepared and misugded, and Republican officials claiming Robertson obviously didn' t hear, mean or recall what he said he did.

Today's 14th burstiest phrase is vague ("Bush Administration and the failure of Congress to gain release") but piqued the curiosity nonetheless. It hints to a CIA post 9/11 report, one that's been completed since June but whose release is being delayed (conveniently?) until after the Nov. 2 election. The fullest reference is at W. David Stephenson's homeland security blog.

And whether a military draft is a forced issue or not, it's out there, and today's 18th top link is to EnjoyThe Draft.com. Yes, that's Jenna and Barbara in military fatigues.

TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Can you guess how many hurricanes Florida endured recently? And when Mount St. Helens started acting up again? Mother Nature tells the story.