My wicket says your Cricket is boring...

Perhaps for the first time ever, sex overshadows the thrilling sport of Cricket.

Yeah...I couldn't keep a straight face either.  

I can't say I'm surprised, really.  I'm not sure how anyone thought this would be a spectacular idea.  India, for all it's economic growth and growing clout in the political realm, has, at best, grown sideways on a social front.  They remain, by all accounts, socially conservative near to the point of a humanitarian crisis.  Say what you want about American "morals" (see, I did it again, can't keep a straight face when I say it) but I'd much rather live in a world with scantily clad girls at the Cricket match than one without.  You can't watch the game because you'd have to know the Rules of the game to enjoy it, and there are only about 16 people on the planet who do.  So for the rest of us, there are miniskirts and tank-tops that don't fit.  And liquor.  Lots and lots of liquor.  THAT, at least, doesn't seem to be a problem for them.  

EPIC FAIL

The acquittal of the detectives in the Sean Bell debacle leaves me more than a little gobsmacked this morning.  You can't just shoot up a car.  Maybe if, you know, they have a nuclear weapon.  Or if they've led police on a ten-hour wild goose chase that endangered the lives of others.  But otherwise, using your firearm to stop a moving vehicle for any reason seems a bit extreme, I don't care what badge you wear.  Get the license plate number.  Call it in.  That's why God made helicopters.  

The judge couldn't have at least tossed the Reckless Endangerment at them??  They fired 50 shots into one car with three people!  The math alone should suggest something was not quite right here!

Hamsters in plastic balls...

       On my way home from work tonight I stopped in at a Dollar store, which was crammed between a Taco Bell and a KFC, which were all, relatively, across the street from a Starbucks.  This is the perfect lower-middle class trap.  Americans try and save money by shopping at Dollar stores and eating at cheap fast food chains so they can afford to drink Starbucks on their morning commute.  It's a cycle, it sucks, and it's beautiful, unmitigated capitalism.  

The reason it works?  Americans are incredibly gullible, trainable, and so thoroughly bred to seek the best while also simultaneously seeking the cheapest that we can hardly walk out the door of the Dollar store without the overwhelming urge to spend $5 on a Latte.  

America in decline?  HA!