May 21, 2003

Washington Post sports writer Thomas Boswell thinks that bookmakers that are placing an over-under on Annika Sorenstam's performance in the first two rounds of the Colonial golf tournament are making the number much too high. Las Vegas odds are 76 1/2 in the first round and 75 1/2 for the second round. Based on her regular driving distance, the length and layout of the course, the exact pressure of the competition he predicts rounds of 72 or 73. 11:27:46 PM

UK Press up to no good again Britain's Press Complaints Commission has decided that an offense cartoon depicting Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is depicted butchering and eating a Palestinian child and asking: "What's wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a child before?" was not an anti-Semitic motif of a blood libel. It said that reactions published in the newspaper following the cartoon's publication showed there were readers and political commentators who did not view it as an expression of a blood libel. The fact there were some people that did not see the cartoon as offense does not make it less so. The claims of the cartoonist not withstanding it is a sick piece of work. 8:41:03 AM

Intel announces the 865 ("Springdale") chipset family and the 2.80C GHz, 2.60C GHz and 2.40C GHz Pentium® 4 processors with a 800 MHz system bus and Hyper-Threading Technology. 8:37:10 AM

The series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer makes the editorial page of the New York Times. Not bad for a genre show on WB and then UPN. 8:36:53 AM