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BCS
At the risk of suggesting that I give a rat's ass about college football, which I don't, I do think it's a little disturbing that the number-one rated team in the land, USC, will not be playing for the putative national championship because a supercomputer says that the game must match the number-two and number-three rated teams, LSU and Oklahoma for those of you who can't type e s p n into the address line of your web browser. Aren't supercomputers supposed to work for us? I think this is one of the signs of the apocalypse, as foretold in Terminator I -- we knew it as "The Great Terminator," kids. I am also concerned that my iPod demonstrates that the wily bastards are growing more clever -- they've learned to cloak themselves in alluring white casings with rounded edges, instead of that evil-looking stainless/titanium/Viking-stove-type finish and the red eyes. But I digress.
Leagl, do you suppose you could make this post disappear if it looks like they're about to take over?
edited to add: It is refreshing that a private institution has found a way to compete in the sport with the state-subsidized schools that usually dominate. It's either a vindication of the free market, or a confirmation that people who spent four(+) years at USC will squander money with the best of them.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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