Mari Ness - And now, they are leading us, through baseball, to Ragnarok:

This may well be the best thing I've read all day, from the valiant fight of the Red Sox against that force of evil, the Yankees:

But more significant, perhaps, was the pesky and distracting squirrel that scampered up and down the right-field foul pole during the game and that, according to Norse mythology, just might have foretold that the Yankees will not prevail over the Red Sox this season.

Believe it or not, the squirrel’s actions closely resembled those of Ratatosk, or “gnawing tooth,” a squirrel in Norse mythology that climbed up and down a tree that represented the world. Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic scholar and poet, recorded the story in his 13th-century work “Prose Edda.”

More at Boingboing here and here.

I have to admit, my spine tingles, and in a bad way*, at the thought of squirrels taking their battles into what should be the sacrosanct world of baseball, but at least in this case they seem to be using their powers to fight the evil that is the Yankees. (Although I admit I must question the conclusion here. After all, unless I'm greatly misreading the score, the Yankees did win. Which suggests one confused squirrel. Which should be a relief to all of us.)

Sent my way by penguinicity and jackolantern.

*Although the spine tingling might also be a lingering aftershock from the evil of Universal's CityWalk, not the evil of squirrels. Without the proper implements, it's difficult to tell.