Eloquent Profanity

I was just thinking to myself that this referee's positioning is dangerously close to the action, which is good and bad.  Good because these bandits can't get anything past him, bad because players of this calibre can run right over him.  Not a minute goes by that the guy books Alexander Hleb of the Gunners for taking a dive, when clearly he was tripped.

That should have been a decision between a free kick at the 18 or a PK, not a card for the attacker.  Bad call.

NPR' s "All Things Considered" did a piece yesterday on the struggling recovery of Louisiana's shrimp industry post-storm.  It's interesting that this ran the day after I made quickie Shrimp Caesar Salad:




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