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And Marat is in the quarterfinals! Before Wimbledon he couldn’t win two matches in a row, and he always says grass is not his best surface. (Was it last year that he led a revolt against the food?) Last night he beat the 13th seed Stanislas Wawrinka. That match wasn’t aired because they showed the Murray-Gasquet five-set thriller. British number one vs. French number one. I thought Gasquet had it—he was on in the first two sets, then in the third set Murray got pumped up, which got the crowd pumped up, which got him really pumped up. I think the Brits are finally warming to Murray as the replacement for their beloved Tim Henman. Will their adulation carry him past the Nadal juggernaut in the quarters? Earlier, The Fed beat former Wimbledon winner Lleyton Hewitt—there was some difficulty in the first set, then it was a stroll. The media has really pounded Roger over his vulnerability this year (so he gets testy in the press conference, and they say, See? He’s really vulnerable!)—many predicted that Hewitt would win despite having lost their last 11 matches. There goes number 12.

Hieronymus Bosch, Ship of Fools, originally uploaded by saffysafina.

The lonely goatherd asks: Why is Sulpicio Lines still operating? Why hasn’t it been forcibly disbanded? With a record like theirs—some 7,000 passengers killed in about 23 years—why does anybody still travel with them? And has President Arroyo repeated President Aquino’s “No stone unturned” promise yet?

(1) I DON’T KNOW, but if someone has a sound theory, do post it. (2) Uhh, because its defenders argue that there aren’t enough vessels working in these 7,100 islands and a shipping line with a Titanic-type body count is better than no shipping line at all? (3) As far as I know, more people died in the sinking of Doña Paz than on 9/11, but no one declared war on unsafe transportation. It’s “bahala na” at its deadliest. (4) Aargh.