Friday Quickie

• Football is back! Boy, the Steelers don't look great - the o-line is questionable, Willie Parker has lost three steps and The Hose Official Boyfriend Troy Palumalu is hurt.


• It's the anniversary of 9/11. xTian is sad. The good news is that Al-Qaida has more problems than the Harvard and Yale Endowments combined. Where were you 8 years ago? I remember listening to Howard Stern for like 2 hours as he covered the whole thing live, joining a IM chat session where Evil irrationally made fun of people till they all stormed off in anger/dispair. Later, I was stuck in a hotel in Norwalk, CT watching Heartbreakers and wondering if it was too soon to be turned on by Jennifer Love Hewitt.


• I think you can donate to SC Democrat Rob Miller's Campaign for Congress here. Of course, you know this already because you are probably one of the thousands of randoms who donated half a million bucks to his campaign yesterday. Open question - how many of these folks bothered to figure out who he was or what stood for beyond the fact that he stands against tourette-addled (likely) racist Joe Wilson?


• Alan Turing was not Gay! British PM Gordon Brown says so! Sorry about the chemical castration to our favorite British war hero and second favorite father of Computer Science. Mr. Shoulders can end his decades long vigil for justice whenever he likes (OR NOT).


• Houston is giving -4.5 at home against the Jets. That is intriguing for any of our friends in Las Vegas or on a Carribean Island looking to place a wager. Sanchez on the road? Against that pass rush? Crazy I know, but the Jets are blitzing coming off the bus. hmmm...hmmmmmmm


• Not that anyone in NY listens to the Radio, but there is finally a modern rock radio station in NY and they decided to count down the 1019 best rock songs (as selected by fans - most of whom seem to live in NJ and lover Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and the Kinks). Interesting list, borderline insane, but includes many of the song we thought were missing from the pitchfork top 20 of the 2000s list. While we are here, has anyone had a bigger accidental renaissance than the Kinks in the last 10 years? You love a Kinks song, I know you do. I love "Strangers". The Kinks should just write Wes Andersen and David Chase royalty checks now.