A Night of Potpourri

And no, not the good smelling stuff. Tonight you get a mixed bag of stuff, so enjoy (kudos to Katy Higbee for her help):

• Village council candidates in India now are required to have a toilet in their home because there are too many people going to the bathroom in public. I don't know what to say to that. It's funny, yet sad. India has come a long way, their economy is growing at a pace just slower than China's, but a major portion of the country is still in poverty.
• Martha Stewart has to wear her ankle bracelet for 3 more weeks, presumably because she's been in violation of her house arrest. She went to a Time Magazine gala, and has been seen on her off-road vehicle and doing yoga. She's even bragged about finding a way to get the ankle bracelet off. Sounds like she learned a lot after being in prison.....
• Anyone else sick and tired of that stupid West Virginia, Country Home commercial??? I guess no one is going to the Mountaineer State this summer. And the commercial doesn't help much since it is all shot at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs (nothing gets by me)!!!! But the commercial is on at least 3 times an hour or more it seems. Someone please make it stop!!!!!
• 31 days until Miami beats Ohio St. in football, so we need to start talking some college football. Why we don't talk about Notre Dame, since there won't be many people outside of South Bend talking about them after September. I think Charlie Weis is a great coach, and he has taken the right attitude with his team, but face it, Notre Dame just isn't any good. Add in their suicidal schedule (at Pittsburgh, at Michigan, Michigan St., at Purdue, USC, and Tennessee just to name a few) and there's no way they have a winning season this year. Some of the most naive sports fans are Notre Dame football fans. It's time to stop living in the past, the glory days are OVER!!!! Face reality, you haven't won a bowl game since 1993 and haven't won a national championship since 1988, not exactly the signs that your program is returning to dominance.
  
• Then there's the Big East, or the Big Least. How this conference still has a BCS berth is beyond me, with the likes of Cincinnati, Rutgers, UConn, and South Florida now in the conference. Look for that to change soon.
• After the PGA Championship, the last big golf event of the year is the President's Cup, the best of the USA vs. the world's best. Davis Love III is currently 9th in the points standings. The top 10 automatically qualify with captain Jack Nicklaus getting 2 picks to fill out the 12-man roster. I hope Love doesn't qualify for the team. He is the most OVERRATED golfer!!! I know he's won a major and won the Ryder Cup clinching match in 93, but winning the Heritage Classic 5 times doesn't count much in my book. He hasn't won in 2 years, and in last year's Ryder Cup went 1-3-1. Sorry Davis, you don't get my vote this year.

Well, this is the last time I'm signing off from Oxford, tomorrow's the big move. But don't worry, the blog will continue from Englewooooood.