First Pitch

John Kerry threw out the first pitch in last night's Yankees-Red Sox game. Unlike most celebrities, however, Kerry didn't throw the pitch to the home team catcher. Rather, in a gesture that transformed an obvious political gesture into a blatant political maneuver, he threw the first pitch to - I can't believe I am writing this - he threw the first pitch to a soldier in jungle camouflage wearing a catcher's mitt!

Typically, Kerry came up well short, bouncing the ball in front of home before it skipped to the backstop.