Happy Wednesday morning, sans my wallet. Here I am carrying my passport around all day. Thank goodness for the foresight in getting that before I left Seattle.

For those of you who think it's too inconvenient to vote, try living in Afghanistan. The country attempts to vote today in yet another election that will surely be contested.

This is a big day in that country. Watch carefully to see if we have another Iran on our hands, or something even worse.


Some links:

Jerry Brewer on E.J. Savannah. For a while it was an "oh, how the mighty have fallen" story with the direction his and J.R. Hasty's careers had gone. If only God hadn't told Jonathan Stewart to go to Oregon. Come to think of it, God, tell someone to move to Eugene? Really? (Sorry Grandpa, but in addition to the fact the Oregon, the center of financial greed in athletics is there, public indecency laws also do not exist. Yes, girls walk around naked at night, legally.)

This Mercer Island Little League team is legit. Watched them play over the weekend. They can mash.

Boy these former Cleveland pitchers dominate the NL. Watch the video. Basically the breakdown how good Cleveland should be...

Honestly, I love the successful black athletes are making good business decisions these days. It is part of the whole concept of building wealth. Although, I won't go so far as to say that owning part of the Miami Dolphins will make you Warren Buffett. But hey, there was a movie made about your biggest star.

The U.S. New and World Report released its new rankings of the best colleges with UW slipping a bit to 42. There were a bunch of school attended by Garfield grads on the list.

Swiss banking takes a hit from the almighty U.S.

Remember when Britney was singing Baby One More Time?

Before reading this, know that I can't stand Jay Mariotti. I kind wish, actually I really hoped that Ozzie Guillen clock him once in the White Sox locker room and give him a reason to be scared to go in there. This guy has no idea what he talking about 99 percent of the time. Honestly I think the only worse talking head in sports is Skip Bayless. This is no different. If they find out that Cable assaulted this coach then fine, let Goodell do what he does. But if this is an internal team issue, let the team handle it. This is football Jay Mariotti. If they wanted wussies they'd have hired Dr. Quinn and Medicine Woman (free drink for the first person to name the source of that).

Mariotti should be suspended. Actually fired. For being an idiot. But, unfortunately, he's a journalist. They have some sort of freedom of the press rights. And most of the ones I know are damn good at what they do. But for Mariotti, a particular Bob Knight quote comes to mind. "We all learn to write when we're kids. Most of us move on to better things."
[Side note: I wanted to find the stories that Mariotti wrote before and after Guillen called him a "pile of sticks", but google only turned about 100 stories about how many people hate Mariotti, including his co-workers. Apparently they planned a parade when he resigned from the Sun-Times.]

Stay up y'all. Be easy.