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No, I don’t need volunteers.  I grew up in east Tennessee near Knoxville where the University of Tennessee Volunteers play.  People there are absolutely nutty about football and you can’t live there without picking up at least a little of it.

I haven’t lived there since 1987 but I have to admit that my blood still runs orange (team color).  Every fall I get excited about football in general and UT Vols in particular.  Sure, I love the Patriots - they rock - but there will always be a place in my heart for the Vols.

Their season starts on Monday, September first at 8pm on ESPN at UCLA.  They’re a very good team and it should be a great game. 

Nowadays, though I live in Boston.  In years past it has been hard to watch the Vols play anywhere except some kind of pay-per-view event.  Years ago I found a dive sports bar that would show Tennessee football games.  It was called The Big Dog and it was  a dirty, filthy little place with 50 TV’s and sticky floors.  It turned out that I didn’t mind the sticky floors because I would plant my ass in a barstool and stay put for 3 hours (except for trips to return the rented beer).

Now the Vols are on ESPN and the Big Dog is all grown up.  Its more like a nice ESPNZone than the dive I used to know.  That’s ok, I can still go there and watch the Vols. 

Maybe I should do it again, just for fun.  A night out watching football.

I should totally do that.

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SARAH PALIN?!  This is John McCain’s pick for Vice Presznit?!  Are flipping-kidding me?!

That choice is just crazy.  I can’t even believe it.  The woman has no practical experience!  The republicans have been hammering away at Obama for years now on his lack of experience and in ONE fell swoop they pulled that moderately effective argument away!  How can they say Obama has no experience when Sara Palin hasn’t one iota of useful experience?

Ok, ok… I will grant you that she has some experience in LOCAL politics.  She was on the city council of Wasilla, Alaska (pop.8,000+) for four years and mayor for four more.  She has only been governor, like 18 months!!  That’s NO national experience and No international experience.  Holy shit, I might know more about international affairs than Sarah Palin!

What’s more all this business about experience might not even be such a big deal if there weren’t already substantial questions about McCain’s health.  I just keep remembering that his medical records for only eight years consumed 1,000 pages!  There is more of a chance of the country needing to rely on John McCain’s Veep than on other presidents’ vice-presidents.

I think he just offered the dems a slam dunk.  I applaud him for selecting a woman and helping to bring the republicans in to the 21st century but this particular person JUST ain’t what he needed.

What was the problem with the governor of minnesota?  I thought that guy might have been a good choice.

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