Nature finds a way to restore balance. We may screw ourselves, and the things we are dependent on, but nature will get back to normal.

The Italians should be up there with the Germans; when I lived in Italy, I saw a lot of beach-goers, young and old, fit and not, who had no qualms ditching their bathing suits.

Seriously, what do we expect from a guy who got famous for humping a pie?

Listening to the news on Monday, I heard that no Israeli had yet been killed from the rockets being fired by Hamas from Gaza into Israel; yet dozens of Palestinians had been killed by bombs dropped by Israeli planes on Gaza, including women and children. They talked to a Palestinian woman, who fled from her home when…

Or Italy 5 or 6, or Uruguay 3 or 4.

The World Cup wasn't played during WWII; the last tournament was in '38, and didn't re-start until 1950.

I suddenly want to see Howard the Duck again.

She probably saw that episode of HIMYM where he's cavorting in the water.

Didn't care for America's "Being Human."

The Moon rained down on Earth.

I can totally see the Russians making Norilsk one of the venues for the World Cup in four years!

It happens in other languages, as well. The snickers I got back home from my fellow Spanish-speakers when I told them how to ask for butter in Italian: "Mantequilla" in Mexican Spanish, but "Burro" ("Donkey" in Mexican Spanish) in Italian.

This is the second time today I've read or heard someone implying doom and gloom for the US tomorrow: Portugal is not the 1970 Brazilian soccer team! They're more like the 2007 Cleveland Cavaliers; one superstar player who is able to single-handedly swing a game, surrounded by role-players and scrubs, and that…

How about a new Metroid game using the game pad in a way you do in Assassin's Creed and Arkham Origins.

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But guns don't kill people, right?

This is assuming Croatia beats Cameroon on Wednesday. And, this being sports, nothing is guaranteed.

I'd be totally bummed about not being Stacey Dash's boy-toy, but it doesn't matter because it turns out she's crazier than Tyra!

Clone High was the beginning of the end for me and MTV when they bought the American rights to the series and then quashed it when it wasn't bringing in the ratings.

But maybe that's why Klinsmann left Landon off of the team; so the rest of them wouldn't have Landon to rely upon.