Well there you are. Once again i agree with Kevin on matters of national importance.

Kate is sexier and dirtier than Rooney, and a better actress. They're both great, in the sense that girls who look like that are great to men like me, but Kate is just wicked. Just check out Kate's first appearance on Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show to get the picture.

The Swedish films of the books are also head and shoulders above the Hollywood effort.

And on the subject of Scandinavia, I want to recommend a movie called "Kitchen Stories" based on a moment in the 1950s when Sweden was sending researchers into Norway to quantify the ergonometric activity of women, and later bachelors, in their kitchens, with a view to designing better appliances and architecture. It is one of the best recent examples of that tremendous, overlooked deadpan humor that the Scandinavians excel at.

The movies I find myself liking the most lately have been made either near the Baltic Sea or in the Middle East (Israel, Turkey or Iran).

As to Isaac Sopoaga, I like the man, I have rooted for him to succeed, but I'm afraid when I contemplate his career as a 49er I find he falls into a disturbingly large category of player who has promised more than he ultimately delivered. He's not a flash in the pan, certainly, but he's the kind of guy who reminds you that most players in the NFL are in fact flashes in the pan. They deliver one or two strong performances in their rookie year, or maybe they deliver an entire season of above-average play, enough to make you believe they might become one of those forces that dominate for a decade; but then something happens - an injury, a holdout, a stupid off-field mistake, a drift of focus - and next thing you know you've been tolerating the dude for two or three seasons simply because he led you to believe he could eventually be great.

I'm sure that every other team in the league has players like this on their roster, but when you're a 49ers fan and you have a vision of a perfectly rounded team, you want more, you want every player to become the special piece of the jigsaw puzzle they promised to be when you first started taking notice of them.

Sopoaga did very nicely when he was asked to become a 3-4 nose tackle in 2011, but in 2012 he fell off enough to expose weaknesses all over the rest of the 49ers defense. That defense, in its current alignment, needs a superlative nose tackle, that's the key position, the one that all the others revolve around. Isaac Sopoaga is no longer quite good enough to shoulder such a burden.