  urlLink This is hilarious. Salon's King Kaufman reviewed the official, if not legit, opening night of NFL Countdown. I remember a professor of a Social Change urlLink class I took (can you tell I miss college today?
) saying the minority party in power is usually the better organized party, ensuring the ebb and flow of our bi-partisan system. Rush Limbaugh these days is a perfect illustration of this, in that without a Democrat in the White House, this blow hard has all the air taken out of him. Nobody wants to hear a bully beat up the under dog. So, our bully has moved on to the greener pastures of beating up retired football players. Only, as Kaufman put it, "his problem is he just isn't the intellectual equal of the former players.
" Speaking of sports and underdogs, special congratulations are in order for the urlLink Texans . Our dear urlLink Ricky is understandably quiet today. He had a great third quarter, it was just the first, second, and forth quarters that got the best of him. Just reviewing, the Texans were down 14 on the spread, and came up strong with a final seconds play to win by 1! They are now the first ever expansion team to win their season opener their first two years. On a more somber note, our beloved Bears fell 7-49 to San Francisco. 
