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Clearly the Chargers’ loss to New England was the result of folic acid deficiency. No less an authority than Johns Hopkins Med School cites folic acid and exercise as the key to avoiding Alzheimer’s disease. As the Chargers exercise frequently, folic acid deficiency is why they did not concentrate and got really grouchy at the wrong time. Buy eating boroccali or spinach, a la Popeye the sailor man, the Chargers could have had Victory Through Vegetables and Salvation Via Spinach. Ein Reich, Ein Folic, Ein Victory!

The new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, comes without the old baggage of the last three speakers. All three predecessors were beholden to the airlines. Speaker Hastert had large numbers of United employees residing in his district. Speak Gingrich had a large number of Delta Airlines employees in his district. And Jim Wright of Fort Worth had large numbers of American Airlines employees voting in his district.

Speak Pelosi has no assemblage of airline personnel voting in her district. And because the airlines gave and continue to give heavily to republicans, she can actually speak for the consumer.

Last night Ohio State gave up 41 points and lost. One week ago Michigan gave up 45 points and lost. Is the dominance which the Big 10 enjoyed in the 1950s also lost?

I believe that there are three reasons for the Big 10′s decline in dominance: (1) the shift of population out of the midwest: (2) integration of the South ( Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, and Swan v. Mecklenburg; (3) the invention of Gatorade.

The 1950 census shows that two-thirds of America’s population lived north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. The center of the U. S. population was in Indiana.
Today of the four most populous states only one lies in that area. As Florida, Texas, and California have become the three largest states, it is easier for those states to produce home grown products to win in football. For example, Charlotte, N. C. had a 1950 population of 134,032 while Cleveland had over 900,000. Today Charlotte is larger than Cleveland.

In the 1950s the South was segregated. Sunny Jim Tatum who won national championships at Oklahoma and Maryland moved to the University of North Carolina where he shipped off African-American players like Bobby Bell to the University of Minnesota. In fine, the Big 10 had a great recruiting system whereby African-American players could not play in the South until the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in favoring of outlawing segregation. It took Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama to convince southerners, especially those in Alabama, that you needed the local African-Americans on your side of the ball not some Big 10 school.

Gatorade made the Florida schools power houses because it neutralized the adverse affects of dehydration. In the 1950s the best that Johns Hopkins medicine could do was to give players iced-tea after the morning practices along with a large salt pill. Dr. Barry Wood, head of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and an All-America football player at Harvard had a special interest in rehydration as his son was the captian of my high school football team.

With Gatorade you could drink during the course of the game, and not wait until it was over. Amazing, is it not, that the winning coach is sometimes doused with a tub of Gatorade.

According to no less a Republican wordsmith than Kevin Philips, George the W does speak ex cathedra or at least God speaks through him. Kevin cites the BBC and a newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during a speech via UCTV given here in San Diego.
If Bush truly believes that he is speaking the Gospel of God, who told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, then what edifying and maybe deifying words will President W palaver next.
It is not uncommon for those who hear mystical sounds to end poorly. Joan of Arc comes to mind. So we may see George the W surrender in incendiary splendor thereby contributing to smog and providing more incite to the burning Bush. Holy Moses!!!

But for the abberation of Madison Avenue, LT would be the MVP. Madison Avenue, heavily influenced by HYP (Harvard, Yale and Princeton) grads, produce the hype that civilization west of the Hudson River consists of noble savages (Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves need not apply) who fire arrows which may be dismissed as irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial.

Sitting in San Diego, I see LT’s appeal adumbvirated by a poor endorsement stable. LT endorses Oggie’s Pizza. Anyone east of Phoenix ever heard of them? Compare that with what Reggie Bush gets for endorsements or even Drew Brees.