U!S!A! will see if they can start playing in the first half of today’s do-or-die game against Algeria.

Bill Clinton visited the team in the locker room and gave them a pep talk.

If you’re at work you can watch the game on Univision’s website.

GOOLLLL!!!!

World Cup open thread below.

And a sneak-peak of a hottie after the jump.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXmK28-3RMY

Being a Responsible Blogger, we’re supposed to have something Responsible to say about Stanley McChrystal’s meeting this morning with The President of These United States.

But reviewing the extant literature, it seems everybody else has already said it.

So, in lieu of yet another NSURLConnection gag a Responsible Overview of the Issues at stake, we present instead a singalong from a recent program featuring John Hodgman that we find appropriate to the occasion.

And if that’s not good enough for you, here’s a heartwarming story about a gentleman who was mauled by a bear. After he was struck by lightning.

Because while we may not be Responsible, we care.

Update: Damn, they yanked that video fast. Don’t tell Hodgman.

“Utah Republicans chose their nominee for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday… Mike Lee is the overwhelming favorite to win in November and replace Sen. Bob Bennett, who was ousted at the Republican convention in May amid a wave of anti-incumbent rage around the country.” [AP]

topless at age 65… damn she’s brave.  And, it is said, she wakes up half-an-hour early each morning to make love to her husband. [New York]

After a series of resignations, firings, and strikes, the French national soccer team ingloriously left South Africa this afternoon after losing to the host nation and scoring only one goal in three games at the World Cup.  Quite a ways for the 1998 champions and 2006 finalists to fall, but they had no business being there, as they were there by virtue of a player knocking in a goal with his hand in a qualifying game against Ireland.  Gallons of ink – both real and virtual – while be spilled in the coming weeks as the navel-gazing French determine what went wrong and the rest of the sporting world laughs at them.  SFL says that Karma is a bitch, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys, and apparently she’s Irish to boot.

On to happier notes, hot soccer players. The South African nation and team have been gracious hosts for the tournament, and their players have been exemplars on and off the field. While they didn’t qualify for the next round despite beating Les Bleu, they are proud of what they have accomplished.  Their captain, Steven Pienaar told The Guardian, “People can never say we didn’t do our best but through football we have brought the whole nation together. We have shown that we are one country and that’s all we need to say.”

And meet Katlego Mphela, their goal-scoring hottie. That’s him above scoring on the Frog goalie.

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Mmmm… Magic Power Coffee. Just the thing when you’re in the mood for pestorking like bunnies:

Magic Power Coffee is the world’s first Passion Coffee. Imagine an incredible coffee that not only tastes great, but magically has an effect on both men & women! With Magic Power Coffee, your “special moments” can increase to a level you only dreamed.

But hey, what puts the Power in the Magic?

The instant coffee, marketed as a dietary supplement, contains a substance similar to sildenafil, the active ingredient in the prescription erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.

Oh, great — a diuretic laced with a boner pill. Ladies, we guys have a term for that: piss hard.

Boing! Feds say Magic Power coffee contains Viagra drug[Raw Story]

Magic Power Coffee

As you may or may not have heard by now, a circuit judge has overturned the Obama administration’s moratorium on further deep sea oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Associated Press, Judge Martin Feldman based his decision on the opinion that, despite the fact that the Gulf of Mexico and the coasts of Lousiana, Mississippi and Florida are experiencing the worst man-made ecological disaster they have ever endured, and despite that it has become amply clear that no technology exists to stop a deep water spill of this nature, and despite the fact that endemic corruption has completely undermined the effectiveness of the Minerals Managment Service, and despite the fact that oil companies have been allowed to draft their own equipment inspection reports for rubber stamping by corrupt MMS officials,  “…the Interior Department failed to provide adequate reasoning for the moratorium. He says it seems to assume that because one rig failed, all companies and rigs doing deepwater drilling pose an imminent danger.”

Oh yeah, there’s also the tiny matter of the Judge’s financial ties to the oil industry… Recusal? What the hell is that?