So...
Pitt lost to Notre Dame, the Penguins had an amazing victory over the Canadians, and the Pirates began full spring workouts to signal the commencement of 7 months of excrUtiating pain... all of that happened today.

Additionally, the New York Times published what could be the least newsworthy "report" in American journalistic history and the United States Embassy in Serbia was nearly burned to the ground because... well, apparently because it creates more of a spectacle than burning Germany's (or France's, or Britain's, or Spain's, or Italy's, or... well, fuck it... America does have the highest profile amongst the myriad nations in support of Kosovar independence... it's our lot. We must suffer through it). There is yet even more... Let's not forget that our President, who I supported emphatically for 5 years and then reluctanctly for the last two, has finally gained some positive international recognition (although the NY Times made almost no mention of it) for the fact that he has done more to combat the spread of AIDS in Africa than any other leader in the history of the free world...

Despite all this, the only thing that really caught my attention today was this...