Quick Hits

Here’s some random material from the past couple of days on the internet.

• Bush hits new low of 25% in approval ratings. Yet Republicans still are at least 50-50 to win the next election. Go figure.

• Has there ever been a worse rookie card of a Hall of Famer than this one? I’m sure he wishes kids weren’t clamouring for years to collect cards showing pictures of his ass. Topps owes him an apology gift basket or something.

• Of course, Topps has owed John Block a gift basket for about 35 years.

• Boise State star running back Ian Johnson, an African-American, is facing death threats, as is his fiancée Chrissy Popadics, who is white, because of their relationship. Johnson is everything that is right about American collegiate athletics (and there’s a lot wrong): an inner-city kid who earned a scholarship to university through hard work and athletic accomplishment. One of a rare number of collegiate athletes on pace to complete his degree (compare that to Heisman winner Matt Leinart taking one class, ballroom dancing, in his final year), Johnson works a summer job to provide for his family and says all the right things about school, family and a possible future in the NFL. But some dickheads can’t stand the thought that he is in love with a white woman. Assholes.

• Oh yeah, and if you haven’t seen Johnson’s post-Fiesta Bowl interview on ESPN, go watch it now. Never mind that the Fiesta Bowl was the best football I’ve ever seen in my life. The post-game interview contains one of the biggest moments of interview douchebaggery that I’ve ever seen. Fucking Chris Myers.