Posted by Dr Fro 6:01 PM

Written in a hurry, please forgive the grammar, spelling and punctuation. The opinions are solid.

So much going on, and the little baby is keeping me from blogging. Well, baby is asleep, so it is time to catch up.

The Safe Port Act passed. I am not a Republican, but most of you readers are. Could you dear readers do me a favor? Could you please take your party back from the small minority of members who enjoy legislating morality? I mean, bans on gay sex are stupid, but they don't affect me ...much. But banning poker? Go ahead and ban beer and football and kill me. All of you people that vote Republican for things like low taxes and big cars need to get after the kooks in your party.

Of course I am being a bit silly, because this was passed due to heavy lobbying from Harrah's. I just don't get that. I think it is terribly short sighted. I don't think that anybody every says, "yeah, I'll skip that weekend in Vegas and just stay at home in my underwear and play online." Online poker does not take away revenue from Vegas! Rather, it creates an entire generation of poker nuts that, guess what? take trips to Vegas to try out their new-found poker skills in person. Online poker helps Vegas. Period.

Party Poker is going to ban US players from their site. That sucks. I only have $107 there right now (which, btw, means I have $7 profit to show for 9 months and hundreds of hours of 'work'. Plenty of reputable sites will fill the void. One is poker.com, a site near and dear to my heart. They announced that the Safe Port Act can suck their cyber coque. Those weren't there exact words, but they are welcoming ex-PartyPoker players with open arms. Of course, depositing money there just got a whole lot more challenging.

Personally, I think that in the long run, poker will be fully legal on the internet. In fact, I think it will be fully legal in B&M in Texas. But that is a 5-6 year prediction which does little to satisfy me right now.

How about that college football weekend? A&M won to keep my prediction alive that they would start out 8-1. Jamaal isn't getting enough carries to fulfill my prediction that he would get some serious Heisman votes, but his ypc is impressive. Texas "Bomar"ed OU pretty well this weekend. A lot of calls and flukey plays went their way, but two things really stuck out to me: 1) our guys were hitting the living shittake out of their guys, just lighting them up and 2) our guys were much more disciplined/better coached, evidenced by the penalties, turnovers and hustle. Well done, Horns. Tennessee looked very good and Georgia looked very bad. Auburn was exposed (finally). I haven't gone on a long overdue TCU rant, but here it goes: Gary Patterson is a total dufus. When he beat Tech in an ugly game, he acted as if he had won the intergalactic championship. And, as expected, he followed that game up with two terrible performances against mediocre teams. Goodbye, BCS; hello, galleryfurniture.com bowl! What a fag. Missouri is starting to look like they are not-you-father's-Missouri-team. Good for them. Maybe the Big Twelve North can offer a better performance in the conference championship game than they did last year. Gosh the Big XII is bad, but at least Missouri is a nice surprise.

Our baby can roll over on her own. That is amazing at 1 month. Evidently, Vince Young couldn't do it until two months. You go, girl.

The WSOP came and went on ESPN without a peep from this blog. Let me be the first to complain that poker has been handed over to a new generation of blowhard idiots. That Molina kid was the worst guy in the world. And Jamie Gold? Complete a-hole. We've all read the stories about him, but two exchanges on TV really irked me. First, there was the whole 'you sure have been lucky comment' to which he gave the very insecure response of 'but I played well. I mean, I've gotten cards, but I've played them well.' It wasn't the words so much as the tone. Second, there was his defense at one point of 'my money is going to charity, too....it is going to my dad.' Hey, dillweed, your parents aren't charity. And btw, we also know that not only are you keeping your half to yourself, we also know that you are refusing to give your friend the half that he earned. You are a freaking tool.

Now don't get me wrong. Although I hate the dudes, I tune in more than ever. I love watching if, for no other reason, I can just get pissed off at these people. It's the basic business model of reality TV: the viewers will tune in to watch bad furtune come upon people they hate.

Harvard is an impressive 4-0. We are all proud. Princeton, Yale and Penn are all looking good, too, so don't get cocky. This conference is wide open.

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