Don't forget Torres' header that hit the post and would have beaten a late arriving Lehman. As much as I admired Ballack's play this spring with Chelski and his performance in the tourney, he is really an unlikable player. The constant complaining and the cheap shots are tiresome. I now recall Gattuso and Ballack's interlude in a different light in WC 2006. Gattuso went to help Ballack up off the ground and then reached around the back of his head and gave his ear a tug. Ballack of course went ballistic and cried to the ref, to no avail. Just play the game Ballack. And don't get me started on Lehman! His days are over, hopefully, and his return to the Bundesliga is welcome as I won't have to listen to him anymore.

From Charles Pierce, over at Eric Alterman's Altercation:

p.s. -- KO, you know I love you, but don't tangle with Glenn Greenwald on this stuff. You're going to go down like Duane Bobick if you try. And, as far as your defense of the barely defensible goes, this passage right here -- "I don't know much about Mr. Greenwald and I didn't read his full piece, but I do know that the snippet he's taken out of the transcript of my conversation with Jon Alter last night makes it sound like I was saying defying the left was a good thing" -- is what the astronomers would call an "extinction-level event." It's not like Greenwald's writing The Origin Of The Species every day, for pity's sake. Do better, please.

For those of you and your visceral distaste for Obama, never fear! Bob Barr, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, and John McCain will gladly accept your vote. Me? Pass the Obama kool-aid, thank you.

Okay, friends, agreed: young Ronaldo put on a shameful display in the 2006 World Cup, diving at the slightest breeze. But you have to admit that this past season in the EPL-- and in the '06 season as well-- Ronaldo was "cured". The EPL, for the most part, will card divers. And after seeing Ronaldo play many matches this year with United, I never saw him dive, or more importantly, I never saw him rewarded for a dive. I didn't see every game so my observation is anecdotal, of course. I did see a match in which Wayne Rooney dove in a horrible display of acting-- it was comically bad theater. And no, he wasn't rewarded nor was he carded. I haven't seen Portugal play in this year's Euro Championship but if Ronaldo reverts back to his diving ways, I will be disappointed. Who knows what will happen when he goes to Real......

John Terry garners no sympathy from me. In fact, it was with particular schadenfreude that I watched him slip on his spot kick and hit the bar. Too bad. Chelsea is packed with whiners and Captain John is at the head of the line. He argues at seemingly every call against him and Chelsea was known this season, by me anyway, for swarming the center ref and arguing at every foul. He well may loose his captaincy for the English national team (wasn't Rio Ferdinand given the arm band for the ENT?) and he should. Just recently, JT parked his Bentley in a handicapped spot for over two hours. Lovely. And Chelsea plays an uninspiring brand of football, give me Arsenal any day. Drogba pulled a Zidane. Say good-bye to DD, he's on his way to Milan.

My former girlfriend would have multiple orgasms, both vaginally and via the clitoris. She was amazing. Best lover I've ever had.

But she couldn't keep silent when we weren't having sex. Always picking at past wounds long since healed or hashed out. And that led to our painful break-up.

Maybe she'd go for a "sex only" relationship. Or not. We'd probably talk it to death.

From the 2008 NCAA soft ball rules:

8.5.3.2 If an injury to a batter-runner or runner prevents her from proceeding to an awarded base, the ball is dead and substitution maybe made. The substitute must legally touch all awarded or missed bases not previously touched.

And to bring up another point which someone alluded to earlier: in soccer, if a player is injured, the opposing team will kick the ball out of bounds to stop play, instead of pressing on with an obvious "man (woman) down" advantage.

Brian Williams has a Porsche 911 GT2-- $191,700 baby. He is definitely salt of the earth. I suggest all you whiners out there go buy a 911 GT2 and then maybe you'll leave Brian alone. Freakin' ingrates!

I hear Brian Williams is going to ask Hannah Montana to contribute to the NBC Nightly News. But she'll have to wear a flag pin, a red white and blue tube top, and a cross around her neck or the deal's off.

As Brian Williams says to Rush Limbaugh: Ditto.

I, too, find Glenn and King Kaufman as the two lone voices that keep me coming back to Salon.

I loathe David Brooks more than any other establishment celebrity infotainment provider. He is an effeminate, doughy concubine to PBS, NPR and The New York Times. All of these infotainment providers that Brooks sips chai lattes with, are America's new pornographers. Brooks and his fellow infotainers spew their pornographic nonsense to enable power because they are so impotent in their shallow, empty personal lives. I only hope that some day, they will suffer in some measure. For them, the worst that could happen is to be ignored. Unfortunately, as a society, we haven't reached the stage where pant-loads like Brooks can be ignored. I hope I live long enough to see that day.