Can It Get Any Worse?

Of course, it can, but still, this is pretty bad...

Now both quarterbacks are injured. Damn, given the experience of the last three years... are these boys made of glass, or what? Is it time for transfer (and the #1 junior college quarterback in the nation) Craft and Forcier to push their way to the front of the pack? Someone needs to step the fuck up. This could be moderately ugly at the spring game at the Rose Bowl tomorrow night.

Politically, it's getting really dirty. There's even some whispers that Obama should drop out of the race; the rationale is the sickest kind of political cynicism. Though there's some sick kind of hope in Slate's "Kausfiles" (though this, too, reeks of that same old-school political cynicism):

You have to look at this through the eyes of Dem super delegates. Take Joe Biden as an example. When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Joe was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Two years later, after HRC's hare-brained health care zeppelin crashed to earth and Bill had earned the enmity of roughly everyone, Joe Biden was in the minority. ...[snip]

What Joe sees is a repeat of 1994 if Hillary is the nominee and wins the election in 2008. He gets to be treated like dirt by the Clinton Administration for 2 years and then he gets to be in the minority for God knows how long. So the truth about the super Ds is that they would rather lose with Barack than win with HRC, because they KNOW that if they lose with Barack, their pal John McCain is president and they get the royal treatment for two years..AND they pick up yet more seats in 2010, thus insuring they remain Chairman of whatever committee it is that they chair.

This is the dirty little secret of the Super Ds!

This is the kind of politics for which Obama was supposed to be the antidote... this kind of politics is like a cancer. Obama's candidacy is neither chemo nor radiation therapy. I'm not sure the patient can be saved...

I've seen the dead patient, and he is us.

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On to brighter subjects:

Finally got around to watching last week's BSG the other night. Damn, another great episode. If last year's parallels to the Iraq war weren't strong enough (humans as insurgents, Cylons as occupiers, with suicide bombers, propped-up governments and the like), then this year brings with it secretive government, talk of "ethnic cleansing" within the Cylon population, and noted "terrorists" possibly becoming the freedom fighters the humans need to stay humane. Like I said DAMN GOOD EPISODE.

Good, too, was the first episode of the second season of Slings and Arrows, fresh from Netflix. This year's play is the Scottish Play (though the episode was really more of a welcome coda to last season)... very good indeed.

Yeah, now I feel better... better still are Kyle's season-ending water polo tournament and the UCLA women's water polo team heading off to defend its MPSF title and qualify for next week's NCAA championships.