Well, it’s been an enjoyable week here on the East Coast, but all good things must come to an end, which for me means it’s back to the triple-digit heat of Arizona. It’s been a wonderful week filled with full green trees, golf courses, and meadows, welcome humidity, ocean breezes, Goodboys laughs, and the simple joy of being around friends, family, and familiar places. Since I’ll be traveling most of the day tomorrow, there will be no blogging, so I’ll catch y’all on Sunday. Before I go, however, thought it might be good to clean out the travel bag with these few items, so I don’t run afoul of those TSA folks!

* For me the shine is definitely off interleague play in Major League Baseball, and this week’s Red Sox schedule playing the also-rans of the NL East – los Bravos, los Nacionales, and los Phillies (alright, the Phillies) – has resulted in some pretty uninteresting and uninspiring baseball. It’s a good thing the Sawx have used this week to feature more of their young pitchers like Manny Delcarmen and Craig Hansen to go along with budding stars John Lester and Jonathan Papelbon, otherwise I’d be sleepwalking through these NESN games. Red at Surviving Grady agrees.

* The most relieved person on this planet after Phil Mickelson imploded at the U.S. Open had to have been Colin Montgomerie, who had his first major seemingly locked sitting smack-dab in the middle of the 18th fairway, 176 yards away from the pin. That Monty then took five – count ’em, five – shots to get home from there should have gone down in history as the biggest major meltdown since Greg Norman at the ’96 Masters, but he lucked out when Phil blew up even worse, so both go down as just two more players who let this year’s U.S. Open get away.

* Another day, another classified government program critical to our succes in the Global War on Terror exposed by the lefties at the New York Times and L.A. Times. Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin are outraged, and you should be too. People should be being charged with treason and going to jail for this kind of stuff, and frankly I’m getting sick of it. These newspapers think they’re doing the nation a service, but all they’re really accomplishing is providing regular reminders to the voting public that the dino-media have aligned themselves with Osama bin Laben and radical Islamic fundamentalists, and therefore can not be trusted in any way when it comes to responsible journalism.

* Of course, the NYT and LAT spilling new information about classified programs comes just two days after John Kerry’s pathetic call to retreat in Iraq went down in flames, and the news that the FBI had cracked a “homegrown terrorist ring” in Miami. One thought: if I didn’t know better, I swear I could see the hands of Karl Rove at work here – there’s no way the dino-media Left and its Democratic cohorts inside the Beltway could be so stupid, could they?