Right now – munching some Triscuits (Reduced Fat, of course) with some Cheddar ‘n’ Bacon Easy Cheese. Mmmmm, just what I need.

Anyone else want to share their shameful afternoon snack?

One of Becky’s goals is to perform better in the swimming portion of the Danskin triatholon. I can tell that she isn’t really taking it very seriously since she hasn’t asked if I’m ok with her supergluing Nike goggles to her face.

Seriously.

See, look:

Summer Olympics – First, why hold the Olympic Cycling Road Race on the first Saturday? Why not allow at least a little bit of build up? It’s more interesting than the Time Trial and the velodrome crap, IMO, and the Greeks built a great course through Athens.

But my raison d’etre today is to rag on the US Men’s Basketball team, who lost to Puerto Rico this weekend. (Sidebar – aren’t Puerto Rico and American Samoa part of the US? Why are they fielding their own Olympic teams?)

In any case, the US hasn’t shown up in international competition for the last few years. I’ll give credit to the growing internationalization of the NBA – Dirk in Big D, Vlade, Yao, etc, so on, and so forth are doing a phenomenal job of taking the game back home and raising the stakes. But at the same time, we’re fielding a team that is playing Richard Jefferson (an 18 PPG role player for the Nets) during clutch time. WTF?

Here’s wishing I had ESPN Classic, or a tape of the 1992 Dream Team…

To JRO.

For deleting Blog Spam, for providing this forum, and for being an all around great guy.

Just had to be said.

I’m still a big fan of TWOP, but I like the twist on monitoring continuity that Episode List is trying to present. You can select characters from a show and see what episodes they are in. Also, I’m liking the brevity of the show descriptiong, but I think I’d like something between one paragraph (Episode List) and twelve pages (TWOP).

Head on over to the paper that’s been riding its Watergate Fame for three decades and put in your choices for best blogs. I threw us down for “best rants”, just for kicks.