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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is the latest creation from Joss Whedon: hero to nerds everywhere. As CJS readers may or may not be aware, Whedon is the original screenplay writer of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, both the original movie and the TV series, of which he was also the executive producer. Whedon also produced Firefly, which I consider to be the greatest (albeit short lived) Sci-Fi television series of all time. Firefly was unfortunately abused by the FOX network and subsequently canceled presumably by the same geniuses who thought it prudent to similarly abuse and then cancel Family Guy in it’s prime. Whedon also co-wrote the screenplay for Toy Story, Alien Ressurection and several episodes of the TV series Roseanne in addition to creating and produced the Buffy spinoff Angel, and most recently has directed several episodes of the American version of The Office.

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Last night Major League Baseball let it’s all stars take the field in an exhibition game to decided home field for the World Series. As was apparent in an earlier post, almost everyone involved with The Cru Jones Society, the authors and the readers, all love baseball. So I don’t have to tell you that the AL beat the NL 4-3, but I just did.

I’m not here to talk about the All Star game, or the importance of it being played at Yankee Stadium, or how most players are unhappy with the fact that it is the deciding factor in home field for the World Series. What I am going to talk about is something that I have grown to dislike, and almost downright hate, about the game of baseball: the tactics of Oakland Athletics’ minority owner Billy Beane. Continue Reading »