From a message board (www.okayplayer.com)...if pepe sanchez is breaking your ankles, you're in deep shit.

That about sums up Team USA's effort versus Argentina. Yeah we lost. 58 straight and we lost. When KG and Kobe are home chillin, our not even an all-star squad is getting beat down. Now we know the truth (Paul Pierce) and B-Diddy (Baron Davis) will lead us back, but dang.

This article asks if weblogs are changing our culture?

FYI, from today's WSJ.

Woe, Canada

It wasn't all that long ago that Hillary Clinton and Ira Magaziner tried to sell Americans on the virtues of Canada's state-run health care. Well, a new report from the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute ought to send anyone who still harbors that illusion into the hospital, but only if it's a U.S. hospital.

Despite spending more money per capita than any other country with a similar "universal" (aka socialized) system, Canada ranks right up there with Turkey, Hungary and Poland in the quality of care its citizens receive. The study ranks countries according to seven health-care indicators. Four concern access to high-technology medical equipment: Canada ranks 18th in access to MRIs, 17th in access to CT scanners, eighth in access to radiation machines, and 13th in access to lithotripters (for kidney stones).

I'm not joking...a href="http://msn.com.com/2100-1103-956357.html">Greece has banned video games.<

The Greek government has banned all electronic games across the country, including those that run on home computers, on Game Boy-style portable consoles, and on mobile phones. Thousands of tourists in Greece are unknowingly facing heavy fines or long terms in prison for owning mobile phones or portable video games.

Kuwait is down for us to attack Saddam.

Twelve years after the Iraqis invaded, Kuwait again looks like a prosperous Gulf emirate, but the trauma caused by the seven-month occupation remains, and with it the growing sense that the only way to achieve regional stability is through military action to remove the Saddam regime.

A spokesman for the deputy prime minister's office said: "The Kuwaiti people are tired of living under the constant threat of aggression from Iraq.

Couch potatoe life worse than smoking??? According to this article that is most definetly the case.

Ha Ha...bring on the lawsuits ala the tabacco movement. Tax on McDonald's done. Tax on ice cream...done. Please tax us skinny like you taxed people into not smoking and drinking...dohhh.

The lifestyle of couch potatoes has overtaken smoking as the major cause of ill-health in EU countries for the first time, the World Health Organisation says.
Dr Aileen Robertson told the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting in Berlin yesterday that doctors and governments must take the issue of diet and exercise more seriously.
Telling people to eat more fruit and vegetables and to take exercise did not work if there were no policies to help people change, she said.
"I am not saying that smoking plays no part in ill-health. I am saying that diet is as important and we have to get that through because it is not understood at the moment."

The Economist chimes in with an article about fat America. Glad a fall into the category that I do.

The final paragraph sums it all up.

Americans have got larger because they have chosen (mainly consciously) to eat the way that they do. Millions of them actually eat rather well: these tend to be the richer and better-educated sorts, who go to gyms and buy their vegetables from organic farmers' markets. Their buying power is having an effect: one of the fastest-growing supermarket chains in America is Whole Foods Markets, based in Austin, Texas, which mixes organic vegetables and free-range chicken with a sorcerer's array of vitamin tonics. But, for the moment at least, they are in a clear thin minority.