The Mother of All Afternoon Links

Links galore...

Still need to get to my LOST review, I know, I know...

-Really cool article on the joint history between the Steelers and Cardinals (hint: they were once combined)

-The older major league baseball player died at 100.

-Tennis players get the chicks. The Big Lead has a story about a hot Olympian...and her lucky guy.

-Well maybe you should think twice about making your status "single" on Facebook.

-Maybe a good sign of the new administration: FDA allowing first test of human stem cell therapy. Maybe a bad sign. Ok...how about another good sign.

-In the Senate: McCain is getting all Mavericky again...Obama says "nanny-nanny-poo-poo, I won", or something like that...Those commercials about switching your TV over to digital? Maybe a bit premature.

-Like I said before, Glen Sather wouldn't know a cap if it hit him in the face...just awful. The NHL players don't want another work stoppage, thank God.

-I don't feel like writing either.

-The Pats are favorites!...for next year's Super Bowl (Giants 8-1) and Matt Cassel says he'll be a backup (we'll see about that one)

-Yahoo! Finance has where you WON'T shop in 2009.

-Some more about that US Air flight.

-The Giants have a new LB Coach and OL Coach.

-I believe this guy is an idiot (I'll talk more about this in a later post)

-I found some articles I wrote for The Justice once upon a time...

-Lastly, George Mitchell is going to the Middle East which brings up some amazing points by Shysterball:

Despite pronouncements of his neutrality, soon after he begins work, it will be reported that he is a board member of Hamas;

Ignoring decades if not centuries of political and social conflict in the region, Mitchell will approach his work with the assumption that all of the trouble began with Arafat, because a lot of people hated him to begin with;

Rather than work on the root causes of strife in the region, Mitchell will simply publish a list of 80 or 90 guys he is told have fired rockets or built illegal settlements and hope that speaks for itself;

Mitchell will defend his work by saying that he had little buy-in from either the Israelis or the Palestinians. He will not mention, however, that before meeting with them, he explained to them that if their participation in talks was later deemed unsatisfactory, their countries would be bombed into oblivion by the United States;

Finally, after 18 months of work, Mitchell will return to the United States, declare that a lasting peace has been achieved in the Middle East, and be hailed as a hero. While people in the Middle East will continue to die and institutions will continue to grow unstable, the world will no longer blame the United States for its role in the region. Beyond a couple of show trials, no one will expect the United States to concern itself with the matter any longer.