Go Augie Go!
I'm not surprised in the least that Augie Garrido has led the Texas Longhorns to their fifth national title today. He was great here in Southern California when he was the coach at Cal State Fullerton and is still loved and respected by a lot of people around here. Congrats guys.

It's also nice to see the imposter USC lose. ;-)

Want to buy a bridge?
Did the French invent the word gullible? The author of this book should be shot.

"[N]o Muslims took part in the attacks 'because the Koran forbids suicide.'"

And all those exploding bodies in Israel are really booby-trapped dummies planted by the Mossad, right? What an idiot.

Kinsley and Stephanopoulos
Michael Kinsley often frustrates me, but his recent piece on TV anchors is good. I think it'd be refreshing to see George Stephanopoulos be overtly biased rather than practice the high-minded elitist liberalism exuded by the rest of the TV news-world anchors. His appraisal of Fox News is great as well; I've been saying something along these lines since I first discovered the channel:

"Fox News is a brilliant experiment in overt, honest bias....Fox is usually fair but rarely balanced. In fact it is a good example of how you can be the one without the other."

Now if they would just stop claiming to be "fair and balanced," I'd have true respect for them. It's a refreshing step-up from the New York Times/Dan Rather-style subtle liberalism masquerading as objective news, though.

How long has it been?
I'm afraid my soccer commentaries below are way out of date by now, but oh well. I had a good couple weeks in Oregon/Seattle/New York, but I didn't find any time to blog (didn't have much for computer access). I'll be light for a while right now because I have a ton of stuff going on, and because I just installed XP on my laptop and it wiped out my modem driver, so I gotta figure out how to get that working.

I don't understand how so few people in America have World Cup fever; this has been such a great tournament so far, it's wide open for once, and hey, the USA is still in it! I think we can beat Germany, and Germany is supposedly weaker than normal, but they've been looking very solid and will be tough to beat. I'm picking Spain, England, and Turkey to win. I love Senegal but I think they'll lose their cool against a very physical and intelligent Turkish side. Brazil has also looked impressive, but their defense looks very vulnerable and I think England can shut down their attack. I'm not very sure on my Spain pick, though; the magic seems to be with Korea right now and Spain has a history of choking. Still, on talent alone, they are the best team in their side of the bracket.