Yes boys and girls, the FBI is getting serious. No more of this wimpy hunting terrorists and crap, the Bureau is now turning its attention to more important things: Porn.

Yes, the FBI has started a task force dedicated to eliminating pornography and offensive materials (Source). Apparently, this Quixotic cause is "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. The task force will consist of eight agents, a supervisor, and support personnel. Their job will be to gather evidence for the prosecution of "marketers and purveyors" of offensive material.

And the kicker here is that it isn't child porn or anything illegal; it's all legal, consentual sexual acts.

I mean really, this is what we're wasting our time on? The federal government has made a total arse of itself in the face of hurricane Katrina, and we're putting resources into cracking down on porn? And it's not like the FBI personnel are in support of this either; they think it's one gigantic joke. An anonymous agent went so far as to say, "I guess this means we've won the war on terror... We must not need any more resources for espionage." I couldn't have said it better myself.

Sometimes I wonder if members of the current Administration just sit down at the end of the day, slap themselves on the forehead and yell "Stupid stupid stupid!" If not, I sometimes would like to do it for them.

Yeah, so that was a wasted trip. I traveled up to Bloomington, IN for the Kentucky football game against Indiana. Keep in mind, here, that we're both the basement programs in our respective, respected conferences. UK has dominated the series of late but the games are always interesting; it's usually two teams that suck so bad they cancel each other out and produce a decent football game.

Well this one sucked.

The Memorial Stadium scoreboard up there has a section that shows the total yardage gained by each team. By halftime, they had almost 300 and we didn't even have 75. It was embarrasing. I mean, I thought this team could at least make a good showing but no, it was just rancid. The playcalling never once gave our guys a chance and besides, they had all the life and energy of a sleep-deprived Al Gore. This is utterly insane. It's one thing to suck but it's another to not even try.

Oh well, as we say in the Bluegrass, basketball season isn't far away.

P.S. Today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day so "Arr! Avast, ye scurvy dogs!" and so forth.