Well, that's pretty frank

From Salon.com

"You can make an easy kind of link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that protest," [Mike Van Winkle, spokesman for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center] said. "You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act."

Protest is a terrorist act. Nice.

this was sick and bad

I'm not even going to try and spoilerize this. If you didn't see it live, there's now way you can see it now, so...

from Soccernet

U-23 team drops 4-0 decision
Associated Press
GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- The roster of U.S. athletes headed to the Summer Olympics is growing steadily smaller.

A swarming Mexican offense knocked the U.S. team out Tuesday night with a 4-0 victory that ended a string of five appearances for the Americans in the games.

Rarely have I seen a national squad, junior or not, play such a pathetic game. I know we were missing defensive starters, but the players on the field seemed incapable of thinking, adapting, or actually even playing very well. The US players, that is. The Mexican players were quite impressive. The first three goals they scored were works of beauty, particularly the ?third? a totally impromptu volley off an unexpected deflection. The last wasn't bad, it just wasn't terribly impressive; it was practically a gift.

Countess did almost as well in goal as could have been expected. Convey did what seemed to be an adequate job, but most of the other US players I knew were awful. DaMarcus Beasley looked like he had lead weights attached to his feet. Landon Donovan seemed invisible most of the game. Myernick's decision to only switch out one player at halftime, when his backline was clearly totally unable to meet the challenge and his strikers had been totally buffaloed, was mysterious at best.

Sick, sick, wrong, and bad. That team did not deserve to go to the Olympics. And guess what? They're not!

Hmmm. Really?

Extroverted (E) 54.17% Introverted (I) 45.83% Realistic (S) 54.55% Imaginative (N) 45.45% Intellectual (T) 50% Emotional (F) 50% Organized (J) 65.63% Easygoing (P) 34.38% Your type is: ESFJ

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Same results, somewhat different ratings

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lovely evening at games

Had a very nice evening at voltbang & chelona's games evening. The grrlz couldn't come because they were packing for their trip to Tucson (a mutual Valentine's present for each other), but I had a great time playing a new game--Killer Rabbits!--(which will [melodramatic sigh] almost certainly have to be added to my game shelf) with Becky, rolsby's Stephanie (good Scots habit of distinguishing people by their people), Brian, and a charming young lady named Melissa, whom I had not had the pleasure of meeting before. Turned out my delight in finding Pilsner Urquell and salt vinegar crisps at the local 7-11was only matched by Stephanie's in my bringing them. :-)

Had to tear myself away, most unwilling, after one game, but with the last few nights' dearth of sleep and the #$^%$ing cats getting me up every morning on *their* schedule (Gilbert has gotten so much better he can jump up on the bed. This is good, as it means his joints are not hurting him. This is bad, because he's resumed his old habot of walking up to your ear and saying "MEW!" insistently until you get up. So, this quick entry and an email and I'm off to bed....