LIF, LIBERY, AND THE PURSUIT OF BULSHIT. Now what can we do at The Corner to make politics out of a World Series bet? Oh Jesus:

Before the series began, [Arlen] Specter, confident in the bats of Ryan Howard and Chase Utley, made a wager with [Nancy] Pelosi. And this afternoon he paid up, via an enormous Hershey’s chocolate cake emblazoned with an image of Independence Hall.

For Pelosi, it may be a bittersweet gift: a reminder of a baseball triumph . . . and of the libery-loving tea parties which led to her party’s shellacking.

Being the world-record holder in typos, I wouldn't normally twit Costa or anyone for misspelling, but it's a gloriously apposite detail in the midst of all that hooey.