(This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs.) Sunday's NFC West showdown in San Francisco leads to many culinary possibilities. The best burritos......

Monday THAT STARBUCKS "I WAS A CHILD SOLDIER" GUY: At twelve, Ishmael Beah found himself fleeing rebels, wandering from village to village. At thirteen, he was a soldier in Sierra Leone, hooked on drugs and capable of things he would never have imagined. Now, rehabilitated and living in the U.S., he tells his story in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, in an attempt to raise awareness of the child soldier......

The Mariners are too far behind to win in 2006. All they can do now is make people in other cities miserable, as they did this weekend when they swept the Red Sox. How miserable? Let blogs be your guide: "Ah fuck, you know, anothah weekend, anothah ass sweeping." (Soxaholix) "Swept. And held to two hits. By the Mariners." (The Joy of Sox) "Well, I guess I'll just pour myself a nice warm glass of......