How about this - instead of the penalty shootout we have successive 10 minute sudden death periods of 5 on 5, no goalies. They could even draw a smaller rectangle on the pitch and move the goals in to make a smaller field, maybe 50 meters long.

Heck... now that I think about it, maybe they should play the whole game that way.

"Six Feet Under" - nearly perfect opening... music and images both.

THERE is a strategy that, historically, always works! I'd like to ask him what he thinks of that Galileo fellow.

My wife watched the Big Give tonight, which seems to be designed to make us all feel guilty for being such horrible, self-centered people. And yet, it seems to me that the whole "contest" would be moot if Oprah would just go ahead and give a million dollars to ALL these people. I mean... what's a million dollars to OPRAH? It's like me giving a dollar to a homeless guy.

I'm not exaggerating either. According to the Internets, her net worth seems to be between $1 and 2.5 billion. Therefore a million dollars amounts to less than 1/1000th of her money. Given my account balance, one dollar is MORE THAN 1/1000th of my cash. (My "net worth" is probably actually negative!) Hence.... that day last week when i gave $5 to a hobo? Makes me WAY more generous than Oprah. But you don't see me running around calling it "DAVE'S BIG GIVE" now, do you?

This sounds like a big number, but when put into perspective, it's pretty insignificant. Given that, according to Wikipedia, there are more than 243,023,485 passenger cars in the US, the emissions of fireworks amount to 5 THOUSANDTHS OF A PERCENT of the emissions of automobiles. Improving the average car's mileage by a tenth of a mile per gallon would have a FAR greater effect on CO2 emissions than eliminating fireworks.

I love how if McCain wins it's the fulfillment of the Lord's will, but if Obama wins it's the Lord "allow[ing] us as humans to stumble and fall". It must be nice to have a belief system that explains every possible outcome in such a way to validate your own preconceptions.

All movies about Asperger/Autism spectrum characters are LAME!? Hello? Napoleon Dynamite, anyone?!

VAMPIRE ADOPTION DIARIES!!