I have been feeling a touch under the weather the last 10 days or so. I thought it was just a bad sore throat that was leading up to a cold, but my sense now was that it was probably tonsillitis. I had some bad throat pain for several days and then had the low grade fever going. Not enough to put me out of commission, but a nuisance nonetheless. But I think I'm climbing out of it. We'll see how it goes the next couple of days.

BTW, Cheez-It Parmesan and Garlic crackers are the new crack. Introduced into the workplace on Friday and I looked all weekend for a dealer.

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Here is a handy-dandy guide to the 2008 Presidential Candidates. Tracks their stances on topics ranging from abortion rights to the war to healthcare. Guiliani says, "Torture? I'm for it."

The 2008 version of the Olympics are in in Beijing next year. Obviously, there are several tours being offered. But the one that offers shooting with the Chinese is uber cool. Pay by the bullet or projectile! Both heavy and light weapons offered! Anti-aircraft rocket launcher! Sign me up.

This guy knows how to charm women.

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Bill Simmons with a strong effort regarding the NBA referee betting scandal. Everyone is pointing to Game 3 of the Spurs-Suns series as a game that was reffed so poorly, it has potential fix written all over it.

I've had the good fortune to see some highlights from that game today (Thanks, YouTube) and there seems to be incompetence from all of the refs, not just Donaghy. This was the infamous game where Bruce Bowen kneed Steve Nash in the groin. Amare Stoudemire of Phoenix got whistled for two early fouls in the game and his fourth foul early in the second half was one of the worst calls imaginable, where he basically set up for position and Oberto got in his way and flopped. Nash was repeatedly hammered and repeatedly yelled at the officials. Coach D'Antoni got a technical, the announcers were questioning almost every call, and it was just a poor night all around.

The Suns are probably thinking what did they do to piss off the basketball gods. They lost Game 1 because they could not stop Nash's nose from bleeding. They lost players for Game 6, which they subsequently lost, with David Stern suspending them for leaving the bench during an altercation. And now they find a crooked ref worked Game 3, another loss. Amazing.

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None, it was a beautiful Sunday.