heartbreak without missing a beat

heartbreak. pure and simple. italia came on the right side of a refereeing decision that really put Sepp Blatter's face on an egg platter.

but hey, here at mr malaprop, we move on from any plunders and move on to the positives. The drug-testing. No-one has been caught! Indeed - this must prove that this world cup is free of drug sleets! Hooray! Go Sportsmanboat! Forte to ''Fortza Italia'': make the music loud!

well, anyway, I was thinking, what the hell is with nationalism nowadays. the way every american's joke begins with a Seinfeld line as per the one above. It really is going through the proverbial hoof, blight across the world. It must be a ludditeian response to globalisation. revert back to tribalism I say and tear down the symbols of commercial imperialism! take to the streets! march, take up arms against a see of troubles!

Mr Huntington increasingly seems to be right. there is a clash of civilizations - but only because of the insular sinking of us all. The us and them mentality cache. The let's-all-be-apparatchiks-syndrome.

But, hey, why not take up legs against mutilant organisations?

And, further, why not come up here, onto the state - yes, you - and tell them what you really think. What is deep within your pain.

Because, when it comes down to it, you're either for the troops or you're against the troops. And at the moment, you look like you're against the troops. Against freedom. Against Theocracy. What's got into you people. You're so negative, so racially offensive.

How dare you, Reginald St. Croix, Esq.!

No, really, you should all bake up to your egregiousness and moral insecticide. It really is permeating throughout all of society, creating divisions - electoral divisions, that is - that are destroying the moral fabric of humanity. O, My people!