Don’t have a dog in the fight, but I’ve been following Clive Davis’s coverage of the World Cup tournament, as it’s just my speed. The other day, he said (anticipating tomorrow’s match between England and Portugal):

With any luck, England will finally turn on a team performance on Saturday. If they don’t, then I won’t be heartbroken to see them go out. I hate to say that, but it’s true. Contrary to what some of the players have been saying, there’s more to the game than winning badly.

Hmm. I’ve never minded seeing my team win badly when the chips are down (i.e. faced with the alternative of losing badly). However, I think I know where he’s coming from. And I wonder if some of that angst explains why the English fans are reportedly drinking Germany dry?

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I didn’t hear it, but a reader reliably informs me that conservative radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt consoled himself, on hearing yesterday’s really shameful U.S. Supreme Court ruling by playing Dylan’s Everything Is Broken. False-hearted judges and the webs that they spin, indeed.

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An apparent “drive-by reader” named Judy sent me this comment, titled “Prufrock Proof is in the Links.”

To have your Dylan site wormhole to Ann Coulter’s bully pulpit must have Zim reciting T.S. Elliot lines from J.Alfred Prufrock: “… that is not what I meant at all…” or, for that matter, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott singin’ “…don’t let your deal go down.” Oh Mercy!

While not doubting that “Zim” reads my site faithfully, I question whether he waxes poetic over every link in my “blogroll.” Since Ann Coulter has the best-selling book in America right now, I guess she can defend herself. And by the way, I like the question she asks in her latest column: “When is The New York Times going to get around to uncovering an al-Qaida secret program?”

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