So I'm at a bar long after the end of the World Cup, afloat in post-Cup revelry and I'm talking to some woman at the bar. She tells me that she rooted for Italy because she hates France. Why? Because they do crazy things like protesting to have jobs that they get to keep for the rest of their lives once they leave college. And so I tell her, "what's wrong with that? Can't you appreciate the whole slacker-ness of it?"

Her reply? "Don't you believe in the American Way?"

And my reply? "Whu?"

PS- is there anything that sums up golf more than the fact that there's a tournament sponsored by an erectile dysfunction medicine? And is there anything more un-hip than turning on ABC on sunday and going "God damnit, why aren't they showing the Cialis Open instead of this soccer crap?"