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Another edition of the picks contest.  Here are last week's results:

Jimmy 9-4
RolyPoly 9-4
TitanFreakinKnoxville 9-4
Rhino 8-5
VancouverTitan 8-5
Coler0kw 7-6
Tate 7-6
kpocyclo 7-6
nvemvp23 7-6
Air McNair 9 6-7
number10ox 6-7
Hook em 5-8
DannoE 5-8
Joy Kat 5-8
Pinoy Titan 4-9

From Pew:

Pam asks if I’ve seen this yet, and I really didn’t want to answer.

Because I want very much to like Fringe more than I do. It has an intriguing premise. It has a sterling pedigree. It has the Steward of Gondor. It has Lieutenant Daniels.

And that word would be “rape.”

The Federal Reserve said Sunday it had granted a request by the country's last two major investment banks — Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — to change their status to bank holding companies.

If the bottom line of this mortgage crisis is being brought on by people defaulting on their mortgages and going into forclosure, isn’t there a simpler answer? When these people got their initial mortgage, interest rates were lower and their payments were correspondiingly lower, right?

iTunes' new feature, Genius, is getting a lot of negative reviews but a few good ones as well. The Genius Playlist function, which compiles tracks in the user's collection, is getting far better reviews than the Genius Sidebar, which picks recommendations from the iTunes store.

God bless Jerry Reed, God bless Billy Carter.

Jon Stewart doesn’t take a lot of dog dookie from anyone.

I have an autistic friend whose name is T.J.  When he doesn't really care about something he always says, "Uh probably maah."  That is pretty much how I feel about tonight's game.  Vince Young was better, but his line was still bad 13-27 for 134 yards.  The one good thing I will say about VY from the preseason is that he is making good reads, and he doesn't seem to be hesita