But before he can join the Jets, Tebow -- because of a procedural issue -- will be required to sign a rewritten contract with the Denver Broncos on Friday and remain on Denver's salary cap for 24 hours thereafter, a source told ESPN's Ed Werder. That means the trade will not be official until 4 p.m. ET Saturday.

And reading further in that article, I get the sense that these guys are just excited as all get out to have Tebow, but the guy is clearly such a project that I don't understand how any of this ends up helping Sanchez.  Tannenbaum was on the radio yesterday talking about how if their offense is fizzling and they've racked up a series of 3-and-outs, they could bring Tebow in to get things going.  Now, doesn't that just ooze all kinds of confidence in Sanchez?  

I don't know.  It seems to me that if you think Sanchez is your guy, you bring someone in to back him up who can be a game manager if Sanchez goes down or has to miss a couple games.  You don't have someone sitting on the bench, that the crowds will be clamoring for the first time Sanchez throws an interception or has an incompletion, who is marginally talented and isn't likely to be able to work the same magic he did in Denver.  

Oh, and Dick Durbin wants to hold hearings?

The Senate wants to grill the NFL about bounties. And the NBA, NHL, NCAA and Major League Baseball are invited, too.

Sen. Dick Durbin is setting up a Judiciary Committee hearing about bounties in professional football and other major sports in the wake of news that New Orleans Saints players received extra cash for hits that hurt particular opponents.

The assistant Senate majority leader, an Illinois Democrat, said Thursday he wants to examine whether federal law should make such bounty systems a crime.

Because that's the most important thing the Senate needs to deal with.

"The planet doesn't care what we need. Mother nature doesn't negotiate." These are not esoteric limits, they're about food and water and basic needs. The idea that we can transition smoothly, that growth and economics as we know them will innovate the problems away, that we can gently move to a system at 100% of the Earth's capacity is, says Gilding, a delusion. The idea that we'll heed the warnings would make sense, but we've had 50 years of warnings, and what has happened? Last year there were more carbon emissions than ever in history. We know that the eventual cost will be cheaper the earlier we act, and yet we've never acted, "We're not even slowing down."

Gilding closes asking, "What do we want to be when we grow up?"

Morgan followed up on a broader issue, asking, "Isn't this stand your ground law a lot of old nonsense? Dangerous nonsense, that's now being abused, left, right and center, by people who just want to shoot people?"

"I think, Piers, you just took an enormous jump," Gingrich responded with a laugh. "That's like cities that have rules that even if somebody breaks into your house, you can't defend yourself. Both extremes taken in the wrong direction are false."

In 1790, United States government figures showed that annual per-capita alcohol consumption for everybody over fifteen amounted to thirty-four gallons of beer and cider, five gallons of distilled spirits, and one gallon of wine.

That's a lot of ripped patriots.  

Have a good weekend, y'all.  And visit Dadler's story blog, THE ABNORMAL WIDTH OF NORMAL HEIGHTS (link), where the newest addition is actually lyrics to a song, "The Ballad of BeFree (but not really a ballad)" -- which accompanies a story on the site.  Read me, it's good for the soul.  Ahem.

Taking aspirin every day may significantly reduce the risk of many cancers and prevent tumors from spreading, according to two new studies published on Tuesday.

Today they've trotted out the angry grieving mother...so predictable.  

"Reuters reports that sales of the toy jumped 1,556 percent on Amazon.com on Thursday. According to The New York Daily News, shares for Ohio Art Co. closed at $9.96, more than doubling what it was before the gaffe."

The National Counterterrorism Center was granted license on Thursday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to retain Americans' data for up to five years, even if the subjects in question are not suspected of having ties to terrorism.

Created in 2004, the center's mission is to serve as a data pool for the nation's national security apparatus, facilitating the rapid sharing of information for agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland and others.

It was previously authorized, in rules issued by the Bush Administration, to retain data on American citizens for a maximum of 180 days. The Obama Administration's order Thursday, first covered by The New York Times, expands that time dramatically.
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Read the new guidelines here (PDF).

It is unfortunate, but if you dress like a wannabe gangster, some knucklehead is gonna take you at your word and the tragedy is gonna result.