"If the Jags play the Patriots in 2 weeks, the Patriots won't even make it to the AFC championship game."

This is a great prediction, and if you're right, hooray for you, and you get to dance a jig over all the loudmouthed Pats fans...but if you're wrong (and you will be, since the Steelers beat the Jags) then it means every statement you've made previous loses any and all credibility. You'll merely be proven to be a member of 16 previous blowhard fanbases.

I still have a friend convinced that the Eagles would have beat the Pats in the Super Bowl...the year the Eagles lost to Carolina...

"But you ARE, Blanche...You ARE in the chair!" Haha...

San Diego 31, Indy 28

Going on record.

Look, I'm no prude, and I swear like a sailor...but it doesn't mean I think I'm very "charming" or "fun."

I mean, it is what it is. It's coarse and crude language and it belongs in it's proper place, in private conversations that don't get overheard by strangers. I agree most people won't be that offended, but it's still rude.

Obviously, the FCC is a big fat fucking joke, and it's absurd to fine anybody anything for one word that slips out on tv - but let's not defend Diane Keaton for it. She's a respected movie actress, and this was classless, not charming - she's copying Nicole Richie, for crying out loud! And Bono was a loser for swearing, too. He's Bono! Does he think swearing will make us extra-special impressed with him?

Just because we can curse, doesn't mean we need to. And please, Keaton won an Academy Award - as if she didn't know she was on TV...

Because Prop Joe was going to ground because of Omar, his absence won't be missed right away...Slim will probably see through Cheeze, and an alliance with Omar is a possibility.

David Simon isn't David Charles (or whoever the Sopranos guy was). There will be no 60 seconds of silence this time, and I think he knows the audience demands blood vengeance against his most evil characters, but probably no good end to his good characters either...Marlo will end up on top alright - of a big heap of bodies. Omar, Michael, Duqie - all dead too. McNulty and Freamon, probably in jail, arrested by Bunk. Chris, Snoop, Slim - dead and buried. Daniels, indicted for something. Clay Davis, probably turn state's evidence and walk away a free man.

It could still disappoint, but so far this is shaping up to be a classic ending.

I don't think we're seeing Randy again...he's lost to the system. They had their chance with him last season, and they blew it. All that's happening is Simon's tying up all loose ends. I would like to see Bunny and Namon again. Maybe they turned out okay.

I could have done without the SuperOmar plot twist...it seems like a little more writing could have given that a believable edge, instead of really hard to accept.

Seriously, overacting aside, the two actors playing Davis and his lawyer deserve some sort of award for all that. Spectacular, if a little overboard.

But, does Clay's testimony bear any resemblance to reality? His stuff about running out of money while he walked down the street? I get that he can play the race card, and convince a jury that it's a different world on the streets, but in the real world, is that really how it works, that life in west Baltimore is a cash-and-carry business?

Obviously, he's totally corrupt, but a character like that in real life would have to be doing something right. So I hope Simon based all that testimony on some semblance of reality.

Omar is turning the corner into a coldblooded executioner. He's definitly justified, but it seems like Simon's making sure the character's violence is going up a few notches before the end. Even Stringer he shot face to face.

It's all going to come apart for everybody. It's going to be great. Poor Carcetti...he thinks the homeless will make him govenor, and they're going to destroy him.

Overall, maybe not the best season of Wire...probably trying to pack too much into too few episodes...but, honestly, so what. The Davis courtroom scene was better than anything in the entire run of L.A. Law....and like every season, you can start seeing how it's all going to fall apart, and it will be a tragedy.