Super Zinedine Zidane

• Zinedine Zidane goes Super Mario and gets a 1up on YouTube. It's been a few days since Italy beat France to win the World Cup, and it didn't take long for somebody to put something clever together. 
• The market?  Well, the SP500 has a series of higher lows in case you were watching.   1219.  1237.  1260.  Same with the DOW.  So there's a positive.  Don't ask me about the Nasdaq.  Sorta, I guess.
• Folks around the Fun Factory were hoping "anybody but France" won the World Cup.
• I didn't watch the All-Star game.  I just found out that the winner gets home field advantage in the World Series.  Shows how much attention I've been paying to baseball.  Geez.
• Liberal Larry runs the BlameBush! blog.  Extremely funny.  Yesterday he "sponsored" a rolling blogfast where folks were required to fast for 10 minutes during the day to protest President Bush's "illegal war" in Iraq.  During that 10 minutes, you couldn't eat anything.   After the 10 minutes, somebody else would take over the fast.
• Lebanon and Israel.  Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed at least seven on Wednesday in what Israel described as an act of war by Lebanon that would draw a "very painful" response.
• Market going down as I type... Wednesdays prior to options week are often a little wacky.  Often times, it sets up a good buying opportunity.  A wed-wed rally.  Hey, there's hope right?
• I don't get the overtime rules for soccer. Imagine in baseball, if instead of extra innings, they had a home run derby? Or in basketball, instead of overtime, they played a game of H-O-R-S-E? Or in football, instead of overtime, they had a field goal kicking contest? (Or "punt, pass, and kick" like the kids challenge!) I guess the problem in soccer is that the danger is nobody would ever score. 1-0 is considered a high-scoring game, right?