Controversy is everywhere, even in the sports world.
All the sports guys are just ranting about USC getting punked in the BCS. The SC Trojans, the number one team in the nation who pummelled OSU on Saturday, will not be playing the Sugar Bowl for the number one college football ranking. Once again, the Pac 10 gets the short end of the stick.
Instead the number two and three teams, LSU and Oklahoma will be playing. The Rose Bowl is great, but it's not like they'll be playing for the college championship.
And I love it too, because everyone seems to blaming Hawaii because they got whacked by Boise State. "Carroll called it "wrong" that the Notre Dame-Syracuse and Boise State-Hawaii games had some effect on who plays in the national championship game. (ESPN)
I have friends that went to USC. They loved the school, but said it was was very smoggy there.
Monday, December 08, 2003
I just heard Alistair Cooke, from the BBC, reading his current "Letter from America".
Mr. Cooke finally spoke about the Iraq War, and here's what he said at the end;
"I've put it to many people, including a famous philosopher and a leading delegate of a major member of the Security Council.
Last March, if you had a choice of agreeing to invade or having the UN approve a three-month round of more inspections, what third alternative would you have had in mind? No answer.
The true, unconfessed alternative was to say - okay, Saddam, you win; go about your missiles and your labs. We'll wait till you try to shatter Israel overnight, acquire a flock of allies and become king of Arabia, and then by golly we'll start to fight you.
That was, in March, the true alternative on everyone's mind that dared not speak its name. "
Here's the full letter to read if you're interested, Why the war couldn't wait.
Mr. Cooke finally spoke about the Iraq War, and here's what he said at the end;
"I've put it to many people, including a famous philosopher and a leading delegate of a major member of the Security Council.
Last March, if you had a choice of agreeing to invade or having the UN approve a three-month round of more inspections, what third alternative would you have had in mind? No answer.
The true, unconfessed alternative was to say - okay, Saddam, you win; go about your missiles and your labs. We'll wait till you try to shatter Israel overnight, acquire a flock of allies and become king of Arabia, and then by golly we'll start to fight you.
That was, in March, the true alternative on everyone's mind that dared not speak its name. "
Here's the full letter to read if you're interested, Why the war couldn't wait.
Sunday, December 07, 2003
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