Maybe the Roger Goodell era isn't so bad after all.

Quoted: FOX and ESPN are reporting this morning that the Packers have stepped up efforts to trade Favre after being ordered by the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to resolve the quarterback's status, preferably by the time training camp opens Sunday. ESPN's Chris Mortensen says Goodell has told Green Bay that Favre will be reinstated as an active player once he makes that widely anticipated request. Citing unnamed NFL sources, Mortensen says the commissioner has spoken with Favre and told him he's willing to assist his return.

Obama writes an OP-ED on the war in Iraq for the New York Times.

Quoted: As I’ve said many times, we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. We can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 — two years from now, and more than seven years after the war began. After this redeployment, a residual force in Iraq would perform limited missions: going after any remnants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, protecting American service members and, so long as the Iraqis make political progress, training Iraqi security forces. That would not be a precipitous withdrawal.

The Packers should grant a conditional release, so that he has to go to a team in the NFC. That way when he throws that back breaking playoff INT they'll have a chance to benefit from it for once.

Quoted: Three days after a conference call with Packers officials on Tuesday in which Brett Favre emphatically expressed his desire to play in 2008, Favre on Friday formally asked for his contractual release.

Monica Conyers is a disgrace... shrek!

Quoted: Federal investigators have electronic surveillance evidence that allegedly links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers with receiving a payment or payments in connection with a city-approved sludge contract, two people familiar with the investigation said.

This Christian news site uses word substitution to filter its news stories. One such filter is to change the word "gay" to "homosexual". After Tyson Gay's performance at this weekend's Olympic track and field trials, hilarity ensued.

Quoted: Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday. His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999.

Somehow I don't think she thought her plan all the way through.

Quoted: A Democratic National Convention delegate pledged to Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hopes to fight off an attempt by Wisconsin Democrats to take away her credentials because of her past statement that she would vote for John McCain if Clinton wasn't the nominee...Wisconsin Democratic party chairman Joe Wineke said Friday he's confident Bartoshevich won't be at the national convention. Wineke said it's clear Bartoshevich violated party rules by failing to honor a pledge of intent to vote for the party's presidential ticket in the fall.

Doesn't say what the settlement figure was, but it certainly sounds like Chris Hansen is going to be out of a job.

Quoted: The lawsuit claimed NBC "steamrolled" authorities to arrest Louis William Conradt Jr. after telling police he failed to show up at a sting operation 35 miles away... U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said the lawsuit contained sufficient facts to make it plausible that the suicide was foreseeable, that police had a duty to protect Conradt from killing himself and that the officers and NBC acted with deliberate indifference.

Quoted: Fans will be able to catch up on the Beijing Olympics on their laptops during their commute this summer.

Awesome.

Quoted: Users must have Microsoft Windows Vista to use the service, which runs on the operating system's Media Center.

Fail.

Mark your calendars folks. Television's apocalypse begins July 15th on G4.

Quoted: Take, for instance, "Hurl," an eating-and-regurgitating competition in which contestants gorge themselves on everything from chicken pot pies to peanut butter sandwiches, then get strapped into spinning contraptions -- whoever vomits last wins.