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The NCAA announced it will add 4 bowls to next years schedule bringing the total number of bowls to 31. 31 bowls means 62 division 1 teams(or 53% of all division 1 teams) will make a bowl game next year. Adding an extra BCS game makes sense as it gives the smaller conferences a better chance to get into the BCS honeypot. But the other ones? Birmingham(greaaaaat), New Mexico(well at least should be warm), and Toronto(Canada doesn't even play real football, with their big fields and 3 downs). With these bowls being new, you know the'll get the dregs of the bowl eligible. Of course that's just the way to reward a 6-6 season with a trip to Canada....in December.

Top football powers like Kentucky may soon enjoy the sights of the Great North.

Funny stuff from the ync.com. Yes dear readers this is a joke.

Scandal and the current Republican leadership have gone together like hand and glove. The wafting scent of graft and corruption emanates from this White House and Congress like the funny colored steam pumped out of NYC sewer grates. Let's review...

Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Katrina response, Iraq war, Iraq reconstruction, CIA leaks, Medicare reform, illegal wiretapping, port security, energy policy and on and on. Like a reverse Midas, everything this bunch touches turns to shit. And yet through it all the right wing has continued to win elections and seems almost unaffected by the reams of moral decay floating about them.

I've wondered why this is the case. How is it that a party so exceptionally bad at governing keeps getting more opportunities to do it? Why do none of their misdeeds resonate with the voters? I think I have it nailed. There's no sex. When Bill Clinton got a hummer from a chubby intern, this was a national crisis. When Bush enters into a land war in Asia that appears completely unwinnable, it's an inconvenience.

Well finally the Wall Street Journal has uncovered a scandal all can get behind. Duke Cunningham had a lobbyist pay for parties with hookers in hotel suites at the WATERGATE Hotel. Yes, dear reader that WATERGATE Hotel(apparently Duke has a sense of historical scandal irony). Now we know the Duke was dirty, hell, he's already in jail. But the operative word in this article is suites. Unless Duke is the kinkiest Son of a Gun since Caligula, he didn't need multiple suites to do his business in. This leads one to question who else could be involved?

Well Dean Calbreath of the San Diego Union Tribune(who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Cunningham scandal), told Joe Scarborough last night that as many as a half dozen other Congressmen may be involved. See that video here.

If a Clinton blowjob is worthy of impeachment, what is the going punishment for lobbyist funded Congressional orgies? One can hope that it is at least a switch to a new party in power.

Today is take your children to work day at my office. It's only 20 after 11a and already this day seems like a convincing argument for contraception. In particular the two screaming youngsters down the hall would be candidates to be eaten by their parents if they were a different species. Then there's the other kid who's wandereing around quizzing people about their jobs. No offense kid, but if I wanted to talk to others about my job I'd become a consultant. That reminds me, Erk Russell former Georgia Southern head football coach once said of consultants, "A consultant is a guy who knows 100 sexual positions and doesn't know a woman." Thank God for headphones, I'll drown the little ones out.

Erk: Philosopher, Defensive genius.

Snoop and 6 members of his entourage were arrested after fighting with police in Heathrow Airport. Snoop attempted to bring his entire group into the first class lounge even though many of them did not have first class tickets. Hey Snoop if you bought your whole posse first class tickets you wouldn't have this problem. Don't fly cheap homey.

Copperfield was held up at gun point after a recent show and manged to use sleight of hand to fool the criminal into thinking his pockets were empty. Now if I was robbing an illusionist, I'd probably want to pat him down just to make sure he REALLY didn't have anything. This guy made the freaking Statue of Liberty disappear, you think he's gonna have trouble with a wallet and a Nokia handheld?

Denise Richards in the latest twist in the Sheen-Richards divorce case, is accusing Sheen of being involved in the death of pornstar/streetwalker Chloe Jones. Of course this follows last weeks filing of a divorce statement in which Richards accused Sheen of being into kiddie porn, hookers, drugs, and beating her. I now know which house needs to be visited when they film COPS in Beverly Hills. Frankly I'd love to see a shirtless Sheen telling the police to F--- off, while being tackled and handcuffed. I understand his frustration though, when perhaps your best liked film work is Major League, you might feel like hitting someone.

Personally I think Leno's show is normally about as funny as rectal warts, but I must give him credit for this. The White House Rap.
Go Condi, Go on girl, go 'head, get down!

FYI, If you're having trouble viewing the video on this page, double click the image and it will take you to YouTube to watch it.

They are cleverly releasing this movie on 6-6-06, and this trailer, while not overwhemingly scary does give you a decent idea about the film. Angry monkeys, flame spurts, Satan in a bathroom mirror, in a way it's sort of like a Gwar concert. It also serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of adoption. You too, could house, the spawn of the Beast. Personally I'd liked the whole son of Satan thing that South Park did better. Anytime the creepy Latin intro music contains a Cheesy Poofs reference, you know that's good television.
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This should in no way be confused with Damien Rhodes, former Thrashers goalie, who after allowing the bulk of the damage in a 9-0 loss to New Jersey also had the Devil(s) as his daddy.

The Evil One takes many forms.

The long wait is almost over, draft day begins Saturday. So many questions, will Bush be no.1? Will the Eagles piss me off with an illogical pick again?(probably) Will the Falcons war room fall asleep waiting for their first pick which isn't until the middle of the second round?(I would) Will Matt Leinart miss LA when he ends up in say, Nashville?(He'll miss the hottubs full of models) How many Dawgs will get drafted, and will they continue their run of consecutive years with a first rounder?(currently 5)

I can't wait to find out!

Where do I take him in my fantasy draft?

The official cable partner of the NHL is changing it's name. OLN or the Outdoor Life Network will become vs. which, of course is the abbreviation for versus. OLN wants to get away from the outdoor label and emphasize the fact that they televise competitions. This is probably a good idea since hockey at the professional level is not played outdoors. Of course if more people watched hockey they probably wouldn't have ended up on OLN in the first place.

CNN reports it is the second category 5 to hit Australia in a month. This seems another convincing argument for the apparentness of global warming, but fear not. The religious right does have one point they can cling too. The storm is headed straight for the northern Australia coastal town of Darwin, so surely this is God's way of refuting evolution.

Warmer oceans, or God's wry commentary on natural selection?

I mean I love college football as much as the next guy (hell probably more), but this is ridiculous. Don't ya think they ought to leave a little more time for this kid to develop? Maybe just a little.

Yes, I now have a MySpace page, my life is apparently now complete. Far be it from me to be overly trendy, but hey here's the address if ya want to check it out. Anyway, at this site you can sloganize your name. Have you ever wanted to be marketed like a product? Here's your chance. Just type your name in the box and see what they come up with. I got: "Whatever you're into, get into Brad!" Of course the irony is, if you are one of the dozen or so people who actually read this you are probably already into me. So I appreciate your patronage!

while he was at USC. Yahoo Sports reports that Bush's family stayed in a house owned by a man who hoped to have Bush as a client for his sports agency. This would seem to fit the very definition of an improper benefit. Will USC have to forfeit every game Bush played? Stay tuned.