trade winds a-blowing

Not content to stand pat in their undefeated season, the Taxmen traded QB Kurt Warner to the struggling Cavalry for RB Matt Forte.

hurricane ike: the aftermath

Before and after: Bolivar Peninsula, a narrow strip of land separating Galveston Bay from the Gulf of Mexico.

From the Galveston Daily News: more than 30,000 evacuees are still in public shelters, and 2 million people in Texas don't have electricity. Some major highways remain underwater. Said the city manager: "Galveston can no longer safely accommodate its population."

On a personal note, the commish's niece lives a little north of Beaumont. She went several hours inland to ride out the storm and is back in Mississippi with her parents for a few days until power is back up and schools reopen. Her house made it through OK.

the brady crunch

We all expected the Cavalry to be 0-2 at this juncture, but Your Original Champions? It will be a testimony to their managerial prowess if they climb back into the playoff picture. The first order of business: knocking off the undefeated Dirty Sanchez this coming weekend.

LT -- WTF?

Through two games, No. 1 pick LaDainian Tomlinson (Montana) has amassed 5 points, or fewer than such household names as Jason McKie, Pierre Thomas and Casey Fitzsimmons.

from the 'if only' files

* Shiners 78, Winehausfrau 74 -- Winehaus would have won if only she had started Panthers RB Jonathan Stewart. (Who's running that team, anyway?)

overwhelmed by obama-mccain ads?

Then go to this eye-opening site -- it has a ton of presidential TV ads from 1952 to the present.

Click here to get to it.

There's one ad in particular you have to see -- probably the most famous one of them all. Go to the year 1964 and from the row that says "Democrat," click on "Peace Little Girl (Daisy)" -- it's the second one over.

It only aired once -- you'll see why.

And to read more -- a lot more -- about the ad and the climate in which it was created, click here .

and going into the bottom of the 6th, it's ...

The final score from Saturday's Auburn-Mississippi State football game:

3-2, Auburn.

bullish on the future

On the news that Merrill Lynch is to be sold to Bank of America, here's a now-ironic commercial. Click here .

speaking of the economy ...

For a detailed (and seemingly nonpartisan) look at the tax plans of Obama and McCain, go here .

Please address any related questions to the Weapons of Pass Destruction and Taxmen owners, who are the acknowledged economic authorities for the league.

the girl in the band

From the 2nd football game of the season, before it started raining so hard the band couldn't even play at halftime.

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