California Sen. Gloria Romero (D-El Ay), with the backing of an asbestos awareness organization funded by asbestos attorneys, is sponsoring S.B. 624, a bill that would remove serpentine’s designation as California’s state rock.

And geologists, a usually mild-mannered bunch who only get riled up about whether the Hayward or San Andreas Fault is going to rupture first, and if the State Earthquake Map accurately reflects the risk of that fault east of Sandy Eggo sliding another 10 feet, are fighting back.

Geologists rock!

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The World Cup has come to an end.

It was a great five weeks, and we’re all relieved that it’s coming to an end, for no other reason than increased productivity around our offices.

In the right-hand column, there is a poll where you can vote for the recipient of the Stinque Golden Vuvuzela for Hottest  Hottie of the World Cup.

In the words of LBJ, Vote Early, Vote Often.

Reminders of who the nominees are, listed in alphabetical order…

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Longtime New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died this morning. He owned the Yankees since 1973.

Alright, Paul the Psychic Octopus has predicted Spain will defeat Holland. We’ll see about that…

And how do their hotties line up?

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World Cup madness is winding down with today’s third place match between Uruguay and Germany.  Action starts at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET/??? Nabeesco time.

Germany is heavily favored, though they are more even in their hottie matchup.

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It’s not quite tentacle porn, but as predicted by Paul the Psychic German Octopus, Spain beat Germany in today’s World Cup action.

So your team just lost the quarterfinal of the World Cup, what do you do?

If you’re German midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger (say that one three times fast), you cry, then like a man, dry your tears and take off your shirt to win Stinque’s World Cup Hottie of the Day award!

The tears:

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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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