Therefore, each of us remains steadfastly determined to tell the other that my respective God is bigger than your respective God, and further, that my God really wants me to kick your a$$ if you fail to bend to His will and do exactly as I say and want, because after all, I am of my own God's chosen people, and thus I am His instrument on His Earth.

But in the meantime, I think the Great Spirit Mother is actually firing up Her bong with primo herb while listening to some equally primo Lucky Dube, mocking to the eternal delight of Her heavenly angels both our pretentious folly and grievously false sense of moral superiority, for we fail to comprehend that truly, we exist on Her Earth solely for Her own detached bemusement, and nothing more.

Every once in a while, when She becomes somewhat bored or annoyed with us, She will endeavor to remind us of our own cosmic insignificance by occasionally inflicting upon us, with ever-increasing intensity, some pending catastrophe or instantaneous calamity, through the process that some enlightened and sentient beings amongst us recognize as "Global Warming."

But always the merry prankster, She has also created Fox News and the right-wing media to try and convince us, strictly for Her own bemusement, that She is really a He, and that further, He wants us to know that She doesn't really exist, so everybody let's all please move on and keep doing exactly what we're doing, because there's really nothing to see here.

I understand why Chip does this. It's good experience for those players, and it protects the starters from injury. Still, I hate it when the other team scores on Oregon.

I'm not a fan of coaches who run up the score and rub it in merely for its own sake. I think it shows a lack of class and character. I fully realize that Sagarin's computer models love that sort of $Hi+ for the rankings, but honestly, I don't see any hard drives sitting in the grandstands with a beer and pompoms.

True story: I attended a Hawaii state high school basketball championship game about 15 years ago between St. Louis and Kalaheo. At the time, St. Louis High School was an 11-time defending state champion and Top 10 national power in high school football, and its coach and team were notorious for running up scores on weaker opponents -- I mean, we're talking up to 80 points or more a game if they could. Talk about winning ugly!

Well, probably 90% of St. Louis' basketball team was made up of football players, the football coach was also served as the school's athletic director, and the alumni were the type of people who just loved to see their team pour it on and rub it in.

But unfortunately for St. Louis players and fans that night, this was not a football game. In fact, Kalaheo was a major power in their own right in local high school basketball and was clearly St. Louis' superior, eventually winning more than easily by 48 points in what can only be characterized as a major beatdown. It still stands as the biggest rout in state basketball championship history.

(Interestingly, the record margin of victory for a championship game which Kalaheo broke that night, actually dated back to the 38-point hurt that Barack Obama and his Punahou teammates inflicted on Moanalua High School in the 1979 state finals.)

Afterward, amid the disappointment and tears of his players, students and alumni, the angry St. Louis football coach / AD bitterly (and hypocritically) complained to the local media about the Kalaheo coach's lack of class for continuing to play his starters and running up the score, long after the game was so obviously well in hand.

When asked by the media to respond to those charges, Kalaheo's basketball coach merely looked at the cameras and said calmly without emotion, "Finally, they [St. Louis] all now know exactly how it feels to be humiliated like that, and on the receiving end for a change."

Bush was never able to shake the accusations of some Democrats that he had "stolen" the 2000 election...

I don't think he cared one whit what some Democrats thought.

He took control from day one.
It was like a coup d'etat.

Then, as president, he got absolutely everything he wanted.
Whatever laws, and whatever wars.
The democrats rolled over for him.

Even when they won the house and senate in 2006, instead of withdrawing troops from Iraq as they were mandated to do, they rolled over for Bush and sent even more troops.