If your local supermarket carries it you just have to try Mario Batali’s Marinara sauce. It’s as close to Boston’s North End as you’re likely to get out of a jar. Magnifico!

In the book rack: Paul Haffner’s “The Mystery of Mary”. Just getting into it, but it’s interesting: a comprehensive and thorough presentation of the person and role of Mary in Christianity and church history.

For those who might take exception to my alarmist tone of the many ways the Obama administration and the Democrats are seeking to expand their control over areas of American society never before seen, all you need to do is read this, and this.

Folks, I’m not making this stuff up. To use taxpayer-funded public agencies like the NEA and the FCC to promote the administration’s agenda is not just a conflict of interest, it smacks of the government seeking to control of the channels of communication by which people can express themselves and gain information. I’d expect this kind of thing from places like Cuba and Venezuela, but not in the United States. We are truly living in dangerous times.

Watching Tim Wakefield spin a beauty against the White Sox tonight brought back how baseball should be played: crisply and quickly. He was truly the anti-Penny out there: efficient with his pitches, working quickly, getting ahead in counts. It was a beautiful thing to see. Hopefully, this ends the Brad Penny era in Boston. I know my mom would be pleased.

Congrats to Michelle Malkin on a fourth straight week atop the New York Times’ bestseller list. Never before has a book been so important as to educate people who they really elected into office last November. Me, I’m missing the likes of Bill Clinton more and more each day. Mark my words, Barack Obama will make Bill Clinton look like Abraham Lincoln one of these days.

The Democrats certainly didn’t wait long to use Ted Kennedy’s death as a political tool. Question: is there anything Democrats don’t see in purely political terms?