In Boston, the Celtics finished off the Cavs and started Cleveland's doomsday countdown to LeBron's exodus. It's not so shocking that the Celtics won but the end of the game was bizarre. Down by 7 with about 2 minutes left, Boston gets a steal and a bucket to go up 9 with about 1:30 left. After that, Cleveland completely quit. They didn't foul the Celts, they walked the ball up the court and the last few shots of their season were desperation tres jacked up by Anderson Varaejo. I've never seen such blatant quitting in all my years watching sports. The coaches quit as well. While the LeBrons were busy running out the clock, Mike Brown was busy letting them. They looked like a group that knew the magic was gone and that their window had slammed shut. I'm far less confident about Orlando going to the finals than I was a few days ago.
In DC, the Obama administration has decided it's OK for the CIA to assassinate an American citizen who has joined Al-Qaeda and lives overseas. I'm torn over this because letting an unmanned drone kill this Anwar al-Awlaki piece of crap is a good thing but it flies in the face of most other policy decisions. Unless I missed something, the CIA still can't assassinate any foreign nationals so why can we whack this guy, this citizen, without any of the precious Miranda warnings and due process we hear so much about? If whacking this guys is a good idea, why can't the CIA take out other leaders? In addition, if we can kill our own citizens for conspiring against the nation from overseas, why can't we wiretap American citizens calling people overseas that have terrorist links? Like much of Obama's reign, it has no rhyme or reason to it. I'm sure in a few weeks we'll get a leak from somewhere explaining the political calculations of this. Until then we can only wonder. I do hope the spooks get him though.
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