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Breaking new ground in hedging, Bill Richardson claims to be both a Red Sox and a Yankees fan.

I'd like to have more support for Richardson. He's got lots of foreign policy and governmental experience and seems like a nice guy and is from a minority background. But the man seems to have extraordinarily low charisma for a trained diplomat.

I also still remain confused about the depth of Hillary Clinton's support, given that I have a hard time locating hard-core Clinton fans.

Lots of grading to do. Amusingly, my class's Wikipedia articles have already changed the Google results for a variety of my own common research topics.

Meanwhile, my students remain confused about Constantine's family tree. Not that I blame them - what possessed him to name his sons Constantine, Constantius (II, after his father), and Constans? Even in Latin it's not much better.

The Romans needed more names. If I ever have a time machine, after I do the important things I'll give the Romans an extra two dozen first names and the Welsh and Czechs some real vowels.

Thank you for providing such helpful tips to improve my stress level while putting me on hold for 20 minutes. Unfortunately, I can't hang up, since you denied my son's emergency room claim on the grounds that you spelled his name wrong in your system, and I'd like my mpney back. Telling me to "look on the bright side of life" and "engage in a hobby" in the meantime is quite useful. I would have much more time to look on the bright side of life, and quite probably lower stress levels, were I not on the phone with you currently.

So, I was a little suspicious about some of the wording in a Wikipedia article I assigned on Marcia, the mistress of Commodus, who I'm also in the midst of a scholarly article on. (I did all my research on her years before assigning this piece, don't worry.) So I Googled some of her phrases, only to discover that the article, after she wrote it, apparently had an impact on a high school girl in Singapore, who excerpted it on her blog.

The world's a smaller and smaller place, and things I do can have impacts I never imagined.