The Bulls

I did not see the game last night because it was not televised here in the Hawkeye state but from what I've read I didn't miss much. From Jim Boylan's comments it sounds like this team has quit on him too. I think that Boylan needs to go; no more experiments. Next Wallace need to make way for Noah; he needs to move into the starting lineup along with Sefolosha permantly as well. There have been a lot of trade scenarios that have been floated one name that has not come up is Andrei Kirilenko. He has not rescinded his trade demand and we could possibly send Wallace or Noce and Tyrus along with a pick or cash. Anything to change the makeup of this team. This off season resign Deng and if Gordon wants to sign the qualifying offer and become a free agent the next off season God bless see you around. I think a line up of Hinrich, Thabo, Deng, AK47 and Noah would be a good fit. A guess we will see if Paxson pulls the trigger on this or any trade to try and shake up this team.

This week in politics

Well McCain won Florida and Rudy checked out of the race a while back I predicted a Rudy and Huckabee ticket. I guess I was wrong. On the Democratic side John Edwards has left the race as well. He had been campaigning for the past four years and turned his sites on poverty as his main issue. Now he can go back to his huge North Carolina mansion and think about it full time

A realistic trade scenario for the Bulls

Matt from Blog a Bull (http://www.blogabull.com/) has a created a trade scenario that makes sense for the three teams involved, the Nets, Lakers and Bulls. Basically the Bulls receive Lamar Odom and Darrell Armstrong from the Lakers and Bostjan Nachbar from the Nets while giving up Chris Duhon, Joe Smith and Andres Nocioni. While I am not sure how I feel about giving up Nocioni but I think Odom would be a bigger addition and getting rid of Noce and Smith frees up minutes for Noah and Tyrus Thomas. If you want to see all the details of the trade follow the link.

Some people should not be allowed to speak in public part 2

Last night we were at my daughters basketball game in small town Iowa. My wife, younger daughter and myself are sitting among the crowd when I hear this man behind me bragging about how he went to the barber and asked him to start trimming the sides of his hair for his mullet preparation. I immediately turned around because I thought he was joking but lo and behold he had had this done. He and his wife both beamed proudly to their "friends" I am not sure friends let friends get mullets. I almost asked if he made an appointment at the urologist to be neutered because he should not be allowed to reproduce further. Then my thoughts turned to having the barbers license revoked for agreeing to do this but I decided to let this pass. It just goes to show that in hearts of many the mullet still rules

Super Bowl XLII thoughts

I won't actually be going to the Super Bowl but nonetheless I do have some thoughts on it. Much has been made of Tom Brady being seen in the walking boot and how this may derail the perfect season they've had thus far. I think that Brady is the least of their concern their linebacker core is not made up of spring chickens anymore. And second they should have probably lost at a minimum the Ravens game and to the Giants in week seventeen. There are probably more that I did not see but when the going got tough the referees started throwing flags. At times I thought the NFL was trying to help the Patriots stay perfect.

This brings me to the Giants. The Manning family gets plenty of grief here in bloggerdom and I had spent some time thinking this weekend that maybe Eli is the better of the two. He is in his fourth season and Peyton was in his ninth; I believe; before he made it to the Super Bowl. I noticed a couple of times during the season when Eli seemed to take the bull by the horns and deliver when his team needed him the most. During the Bears game he led them down field in the fourth quarter. He certainly didn't lose the Patriots game and then in OT against the Packers when he led them into field goal range a third time before his kicker sealed the deal. I am smelling an upset here.

I finally saw Superbad

I had been dying to see the movie and I finally had the opportunity on Monday. I work at a government agency and we had MLK day off so it was perfect timing. The wife and kids were at work and school so I went to the Red Box and rented this cinematic masterpiece. I have not laughed so hard in years. I can remember my first fake id like it was yesterday. Like Fogel mine stated I was not 21 because everyone who had a fake college ID theirs said they were 21. So I opted for 23. It was the worst Indiana University ID ever my friend from ROTC worked in student services and forged them for us. This same person went on to serve at Arlington National Cemetery as part of the honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But I digress; so to see how foolish I probably looked trying to pass a fake was funny. To say I enjoyed it is an understatement.

This week in politics

This week we saw two candidates drop out of the presidential race. One of them; Fred Thompson; I don't think was ever in it and Dennis Kucinich who had no chance whatsoever. The problem with Fred was that there was so much build up to him entering the race and then he joins the race and does absolutely nothing. I believe part of the problem was people expected him to be like his on screen persona and he was nothing like that. People tried to build him up as the next Ronald Reagan and he failed to deliver on that as well.

The Florida primary is coming up as well as the South Carolina Democratic primary. The Florida primary is being billed as the one will determine a frontrunner in both parties leadning into Super Tuesday. Rudy has placed all of his eggs in this basket if he is to remain a viable candidate he will have to win in Florida.