Wet Grass and Punk Jazz

Saturday afternoon's scheduled Vancouver Whitecaps soccer game at Empire Field was cancelled, due to a rain-soaked pitch. "I wish," said Lions coach Wally Buono, on his way back from a bad afternoon in Edmonton, "we'd been scheduled to play there." "Me too," said the Roughriders' Greg Marshall.

The Democrat/Republican impasse in Washington over raising the US debt limit is beginning to seem like a 1960s game of chicken. And who would want to be in the car with John Boehner?

Best new name for a punk jazz group: "The Dead Kenny Gs." Our thanks to CBC Radio's Tim Tamashiro for alerting listeners to this. Google the Dead Kenny Gs and you can hear this group, which says it is dedicated to fighting "injustice, cheese and dishonesty."

Back to football: the continuing circulation of quarterbacks and coaches in the CFL reminds us of Jack Wasserman's comment on Vancouver radio--"No need to turn the dial; leave it where it is and listen to the deejays roll by."