Thoughts on a cold, wet Wednesday afternoon

1. OK, so South Dakota Senator Phil Johnson, a Democrat, has a stroke. (Poor guy. He and his wife have both survived cancer). You know who gets to the point of the story? The BBC.

2. I do not think like the other people -- in a bad way.

So I hear that Bruins rookie Phil Kessell has testicular cancer, and my thought is: "Does this mean he'll win the Tour de France?"

I hear that a plane is headed for Massachusetts carrying the new Japanese star pitcher, his agent, the evil Scott Boras, and Red Sox president Larry Lucchino and GM Theo Epstein. My first thought? "Wow, if that plane crashes, it changes everything."

Edit: John Henry was not on the plane, which didn't crash anyway. But if it did, he would have been Waylon Jennings.

3. I don't care what LaDanian Tomlinson's initial's are, you cannot call him "LT." That's Lawrence Taylor and always will be.

4. Interesting quiz result: I wind up as the co-author of the book I consider to be one of the three greatest science fiction books ever written. (Those three are "The Mote in God's Eye," "Ender's Game," and "World War Z."

5. Finally, some educational research I can agree with. Thanks to mactavish.

6. My Allen Iverson solution. Three-way. Iverson winds up in Minnesota, Paul Pierce winds up in Philadeplhia, and Kevin Garnet comes to Boston and we win the NBA title.