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Helluva goal by Messi there.

This poses a very interesting and difficult problem. If we assume responsibility how can we help without using war? ISIS won't respond to sanctions or anything like that. I certainly don't want to escalate again, but feel a strong sense of responsibility to the people of Iraq.

Indeed! I posted this picture to FB wondering if Bob Mould knows Gary stole his guitar.

A great show. Mostly stuff from Smile, Sound of Lies, and Rainy Day Music, but a few off Hollywood Town Hall and Tomorrow the Green Grass. A Jayhawks show without "Blue" would've left me unsatisfied. They played it. I didn't realize how well Louris could shred on guitar. He really cranked it up a few times. They played Golden Smog's "If I Only Had a Car" in the encore. One a weird note, I was distracted a bit by Kraig Johnson's resemblance to Rob Thomas. Kind of creepy. Back on topic, John Hiatt tonight.

Did you see Megyn Kelly, a Fox anchor actually gave Cheney quite a grilling on Iraq. It was fairly stunning. I'd post the link, but I'm on my phone.

Not sure I ever knew he and King were married.

Will do.

They're Olsonless, so that's tempering my expectations, apparently focusing on the 1997-2004 Olsonless records. Rainy Day Music is the only one of those I really know well. Hopefully they'll pull out a few from Tomorrow the Green Grass and Hollywood Town Hall.

Mine too. I haven't checked Vegas odds, but the way the handled Portugal they've gotta be the favorite. Anything can happen. But it's soccer, anything can happen: injury, errant goal. Being a stay-at-home dad during the summer hasn't meant as much soccer as I hoped. My twins are 9 and are much more active than when they were 5. Then, they'd go outside or to the basement and play for hours on end. Now we do "homework" in the morning and usually have outings in the afternoon. Not nearly as much soccer for me so far as I anticipated.

When I was in D.C. last week, I saw a group on an honor flight. Most honor flights I've heard of were strictly for WWII vets. This one had vets from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. You could tell the Vietnam vets in particular were quite proud to have been included. Talked to many, enjoyed their stories. Those WWII folks won't be around much longer. I remember the first year of my teaching career ended on the 50th anniversary of D-Day and 2 weeks ago we marked the 70th. Time flies...

The Jayhawks

Three great WWI reads by Barbara Tuchman (probably my favorite history writer) in chronological order by history, not publication (copied from Wikipedia): The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914 (1966)—Covers the hesitant rise of U.S. imperialism, anarchist assassinations, socialism, communism, and the devolution of the 19th century order in Europe and North America.The Guns of August (1962) details the military decisions and actions that occurred leading up to and during the first month of World War I. It is primarily what established her reputation. During the Cu

Don't forget Sonny Rollins. Saw him back in '99, still blowing a furious horn and he's still on the road today. As far as Silver, Fresh Air's brief obituary reminded us that Steely Dan fans should be forever indebted to him for this bass line. http://youtu.be/S1CilMzT55M

I didn't get to watch much yesterday. About 1/2 of the AUS/NED game. It seemed like a rugby match. Very physical. It's now official that Altidore won't play Sunday. No surprise, but I was kind of hoping for a miracle recovery.

Didn't end well for you. A pretty physical game.

Quite frankly, the first one is. Just look at Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. Not ideal, but feasible. From what I can gather, this ISIS group is nearly as well organized, led, and funded as Al Qaeda. Going after these terrorist groups seems about as effective asplaying whack-a-mole. Not sure what the short-term answer is, but I remain convinced that a major part of the long-term answer is energy independence. Saudis and other wealthy Arabs seem to pump money into whatever new group crops up. Dry up their major source of wealth and our need to support regimes that our diametrically oppos

Yep! A great documentary!

I bet one could prove that baseball's declining popularity is in direct correlation with America's shrinking attention span.

Easiest way to make soccer more palatable to American tastes: add a blue line like hockey. Offsides is omly called when it is past the blue line. They could implement this in MLS, but it would make it too different from the international game. I get not liking soccer. For me, it's like baseball: long periods of not much, then stunning neauty and athleticism when it all comes together.

Losing Altidore is going to hurt. Let's hope for a miracle!

Surprised no one started this yet. What a game! Go USA!

It's too bad Semisonic became a one hit wonder with a fairly crappy song. I like them a lot. Not nearly as much as their predecessor, Trip Shakespeare, but they're better than many realize or would give a chance. Dan Wilson is a great songwriter.

Yeah, that looks pretty brilliant. I really want to hate Ethan Hawke, but Richard Linklater makes it so hard.

And I was in DC briefly yesterday I had 54 8th graders in tow on our way to Williamsburg. Headed back to DC now. Sorry I missed it.

Good interview.