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Don't forget to hit up Taco Bell for gratis grub if you can - cleverly scheduled when most everybody is at work!

Taco Bell pitched a softball during the World Series. On Tuesday, it will pay.

The official quick-service restaurant of Major League Baseball is offering everybody in America a free taco between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. in their local time zones. The offer is good in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

What's behind the largesse? A bet the Yum! Brands (nyse: YUM - news - people ) subsidiary was fairly likely to lose. Rob Savage, the company's chief operating officer, detailed the "Steal a Base, Steal a Taco" promotion last week, during the first game of the Series: If a player from either team could steal a base in any of the series’ games, everyone in the entire country would be eligible for a free taco.

Thing is, in an average baseball game in 2007, there were about 1.2 stolen bases. In the 2006 World Series, two bases were stolen. So, over the course of the best-of-seven contest this year, it was pretty likely that somebody would steal a base.

Red Sox centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury (who may go down in history as “Tacoby Bellsbury”) completed the task in Game 2, stealing second base in the bottom of the fourth and thereby gifting everyone in the United States a free beef taco.

That's a 77-cent value, so in theory, Taco Bell is on the hook for $233.5 million ...

In reality, they probably break even if you buy a soda.

Be sure to thank a Red Sox fan!

It sures like there could be a lot more creativity in ideas of things to do with Hot Tub Parties with almost 28,000 listings in Google.

Trick or treat night here. The popular costume this year seems to be "Slutty Chick".

Back before the days of cable when I was a kid in York, Pa, we'd tune in to faraway UHF stations at night. One of those stations was WBFF 45 in Baltimore and on Saturday nights, they ran a horror movie feature called "Ghost Host". The Ghost Host was George Lewis who also skippered their afternoon cartoon show "Captain Chesapeake" and I think was also a news anchor (and possibly a station owner). The video was always the same but the Ghost Host's lips were obscured and the announcer would dub in the appropriate lead-in for that week's movie. Clips are rare but luckily three survive on YouTube.

Here's blood in your eye!!

Don't forget to kick a Muslim.

Reggae star Lucky Dube blown away in ultra-violent South Africa.

Police said that Dube, 43, was travelling in a grey Chrysler and had just dropped off his son and daughter, aged 15 and 16, when he was attacked. Three carjackers fired at least three bullets into his body but then fled in a blue Volkswagen without stealing his car. Police have set up a special task force to trace a group of three suspected killers who are believed to be well-known local criminals. They said that the car had rolled down the road a few yards and then hit a tree. “He was declared dead on the scene,” Inspector Lorrain Van Immareck said.

The murder came just as the country was witnessing an outpouring of national pride in the Springbok rugby team and hoping for once to attract headlines other than about crime.

The issue of ever-worsening crime has cut across race lines and led to unprecedented criticism of the Government of President Mbeki. Last year one government minister provoked outrage when he said in parliament that “white whingers” should leave the country if they did not like it. It was seen as a turning point because many blacks and Coloureds then added their voice to criticisms of the Government’s failure to live up to promises to bring crime under control.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), traditionally a strong ally of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), said that it was appalled and outraged at the murder and added its voice to calls for solutions to crime. For years the Government maintained that crime was not as bad as wealthy people claimed, but recently the statistics, such as 50 murders a day and one rape every 40 seconds, have begun to damage investment and alarm big business.

Mr Mbeki, who is often accused of being in denial on the issue, appealed to South Africans to confront the “scourge of crime” together. “This is indeed very, very sad that this happened to an outstanding South African, an outstanding musician,” he said as he was boarding a flight to today’s match in Paris.

So says Germaine Greer.

Hey, if you went to Granada High School in Livermore, fill in your information at this site. It's actually linked to by the school. Especially if you're from the Class of 1977. It's free, and the $25 module lasts a lifetime, but until there's a big enough population of students in there, it doesn't make sense to pay.

So get in there!

Atrios and Matt Yglesias have the disturbing details.

Except Rancho Cordova, California. Spent two years there, two of the darkest years of my life, although that wasn't necessarily Rancho Cordova's fault (although it didn't help).

This was also my public transit period. After about three months of living in Rancho Cordova, my car pretty much gave up the ghost, and I didn't have the money to buy a new one, and so, for about 10 months, I rode my bike in good weather and took the bus to work and in bad weather. The bus system in Sacramento at that time was pretty good, and there was a main stop near Mather Air Base that I could use to catch a bus to almost anywhere I needed to go, so it worked for me.

I was probably in some of the best condition of my life because of all the bike riding, too.

But, it was a crappy time because I was let go by my employer and spent about 5 months unemployed while I looked for a new job. At first, I treated the unemployment as more like a vacation, but after a few months of disappearing money I felt more and more desperate, and wasn't getting anywhere on finding a job I wanted, so my employment standards started slipping slowly. The waiting game was frustrating and depressing, as I started to wonder if anyone would want to hire me.

Which is why I don't think much of Rancho Cordova, period.

Which of the following tattoos, if you had it prominently displayed on your arm, is more likely to get you in a fight?

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