Couple days ago I had a most interesting day watching sports. I am currently in Hawaii for a wedding. So on Wednesday morning when I tried to watch the U.S. soccer game, I had to get up at 4 a.m. I found that my two sons and brother in law were also up. We watched Landon Donovan scored the winning goal in stoppage time and then we jumped up, screaming in celebration. We are staying at this magnificent villa by the ocean ( the groom has a very rich friend), and we woke everybody up despite the vastness of this place.

After half hour of celebration, I went back to my room and turned on Wimbledon. I saw 4 sets of score and a score of 30-30. I figure then they are in the first game of the 5th set and are tied 30-30 in points. It took me awhile, seeing that after points were played that the score was still 30-30 that I realized that was the game score, not the point score. Thus continued a day of watch tennis till 59-59! So I was exhausted from watching sport while vacationing in paradise!

The group round of the world cup having been completed, I make the following observation. South Americans play the best soccer, by far. The European players are way overrated. They are way overpaid. Christian Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney? I think South America should get one of Europe's spots for the World Cup next time.

Have not had much time to write lately even though many things been going through my mind. Will restart with a brief commentary on the gulf oil spill. I understand that BP may have been negligent so that this disaster happened. But once it happened I don't think that there is any reason why they would not want to stop the oil flow ASAP. If they know how to do it quickly there is no advantage for them to hold back. So there is no reason to demand that BP fix this mess as the Obama administration and others are doing except to deflect any blame. And as for the government, it is liable for the lack of oversight but again once the spill started you can't blame it for not stopping the spill because I am sure that would the first thing the government wants to do.

I think the only thing that Obama could have done in the beginning, other than going to the Gulf more frequently for photo-ops, was to convene the top engineers in the country to come up with ideas how to stop the spill and clean up the mess. If he had called on brainiacs from MIT, Cal Tech, and U. of Texas (I assume there would be a petroleum engineering program there) from day 1, then I don't think you can ask for more. If those guys can't come up with the answer then why do you expect that Obama can come up with the answer?

By they way, why can't they just land a submarine on top of the gush and stop the flow until the relief well is drilled?