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June 7, 2005

Dept of the Obvious

Watching television this afternoon, I saw an advertismenet for the Gillette Mach3 shaving razor. With Father's Day around the corner, the over-stimulated announcer was lowing through a verdant image of the Platonic soccer field. In the center of the field stood the slightly disheveled and beatific object of a thousand soccer fantasies (and probably many less wholesome ones).

"You could win a trip to Madrid to meet one of hte world's best soccer players - David Beckham!" Only in America do you have to explain who he is ... tragic.