Corey Lidle hits building, dies

Corey Lidle, a pitcher for the Yankees, was killed today when a plane he was piloting struck an Upper East Side highrise, reports the Times.

Now, for reasons that don't need to be explained, any sentence that contains the words "plane" and "crash" and "highrise" causes nervousness in these parts. The natural reaction, I'd argue, is that people think "Oh shit, not again". People who only saw it on television seem to forget how viscerally we still remember an earlier incident of this nature.

Of course, there are also the freaks. I checked one of the local right-wing blogs earlier, and noticed what amounts to giddiness; planes hitting buildings may kill people and be universally acknowledged as a bad thing, but they would tend to help republicans and are therefore, I guess, welcomed in those quarters. The letdown when it turned out to be an accident was palpable; they were saved by this as little as by their earlier rejoicing over the North Korea nuke test.

Kind of sick, but there you have it. Odds are, if it kills people or is otherwise bad for America, republicans revel in it. November 7th, is all I can say.