In today’s quarterfinal action of the World Cup, Holland beat Uruguay 3-2. Today’s World Cup Hottie wins Stinque’s title for being a bad ass who wasn’t faking an injury, namely, he got kicked in the face and briefly passed out. Luckily, X-rays show that Holland’s Demy de Zeeuw did not break his jaw, but it did put a scare into the Oranje.

Holland will play the winner of tomorrow’s Spain v. Germany match for the championship on Sunday.  Uruguay will play the loser of tomorrow’s match on Saturday for the third place prize.

Sadly, no Japanese tentacle porn, but miscellaneous Dutch man-love and female fans after the jump.

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Looks like the Feds are back from holiday:

The Justice Department weighed in on one of the most explosive issues in American politics Tuesday, filing a lawsuit to overturn a tough new Arizona immigration law that has sharply divided people along partisan, ideological and ethnic lines.

Partisan? Ideological? Ethnic? Hey, we’re just getting started!

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A new front in the Clash of Civilizations in III… II… I…

The former head of NASA on Tuesday described as “deeply flawed” the idea that the space exploration agency’s priority should be outreach to Muslim countries, after current Administrator Charles Bolden made that assertion in an interview last month…

Bolden created a firestorm after telling Al Jazeera last month that President Obama told him before he took the job that he wanted him to do three things: inspire children to learn math and science, expand international relationships and “perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.”

There’s only one solution to this dilemma: Convert all our math — and dollars — to Roman numerals. And call them Freedom Numbers.

Former NASA Director Says Muslim Outreach Push ‘Deeply Flawed’ [Fox]

A BP board game from the 1970s challenged players to hoard $120 million to win:

Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries.

But BP Offshore Oil Strike players must also avoid the dreaded ‘hazard cards’, which state: ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’

Strangely enough, cleanup technology hasn’t changed since the 1970s, either.

Rare 1970s BP board game promises oil ‘thrills’ comes back to haunt them [Metro UK, via ThinkProgress]

If you heard Monday that July 5, 2010, was the date set by Doc to fire his DeLorean into the future, you were the victim of a cruel hoax designed to prove you don’t have a DVD on hand to easily double-check the claim and should be pitied.

Back to the Future hoax sparks memory trip [Perth Now]

And if you haven’t seen these two do Jeeves and Wooster, get your Netflix on now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4tDP-yMwXI

Happy Fourth, Stinquers.

As our longtime unindicted co-conspirators know, Stinque World Domination Headquarters is conveniently located across I-5 from the Sandy Eggo Airport, which allows quick travel to our Pacific Dead Volcano Island when we need to launch nukes at alien invaders.

Another benefit is that the top of our hillock affords a nice view of Sandy Eggo’s annual Blow Shit Up Celebration, when the natives detonate thousands of dollars of synchronized explosives to appease the Area Earthquake Demons. This year we could see five simultaneous demonstrations from our vantage point, since last year’s paltry threesome clearly made the Area Earthquake Demons angry.

There had been talk of sacrificing a few virgins as well, but virgins haven’t been seen in Sandy Eggo since the Prop 8 stadium prayer meeting in 2008.