TUESDAY, APRIL 22


John Smoltz has become only the 16th pitcher in Major League history to strike out 3000 batters.  He’s now Hall of Fame bound, probably on a first ballot no less.

I was wondering if something like this wasn’t going to happen.  Robert Downey, Jr. has now ruined his career.  He has “outed” himself as a …. Oh dear…. He is no longer a liberal!  (Suitably Flip)

THE CHAMBERS BOOK OF DAYS
Born: Henry Fielding, dramatist and novelist, 1707; Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, 1724, Königsberg; James Grahame, poet, 1765, Glasgow.
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