Super!

Here's a toast to the Super Bowl XXXVIII champions - the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS! I didn't doubt for a moment, even though I knew the game wouldn't be won until the final 2 minutes. These Pats don't blow anything up, but they win games with mind-boggling efficiency, and as long as Tom Brady and Bill Belichek are around, expect that trend to continue.

Stampeding crowds killed 244 people...not in Boston, but in Mecca, where the devil clearly got the better of his would-be stoners, and left hundreds killed and injured in mass hysteria during a pilgrim ritual. This happens every year on some scale, and it doesn't strike me as a particularly godly type of worship.

And now we are officially 2 weeks away from the beginning of Red Sox season! On February 16th, the equipment truck leaves Fenway Park, and life begins again in the Frozen North. In the meantime, is anyone interested in going skating on the Charles River? Seriously.