To paraphrase Mark Antony, I come to praise Donovan, not to bury him.
I want to make a stand for Donovan. Sure he was really bad in the past two games, but the rest of the team didn’t help. Yes, he’s the leader of the team, but a leader requires followers and he sure didn’t have much of that.
I saw a ray of hope in the last three minutes of the game which leads me to believe that he’ll get better.
Maybe Andy Reid should have played him more in preseason, getting rid of that rust before the regular season came along.
I say, give him time. Think back, how long has it been since the Eagles started strong in the beginning of the season. They have always been a second-half team. Let’s just hope their good second half is the last 30 minutes of the game, not the last eight games of the season.I
think he’s still a great player. But then again, I’ve always been known for my optimism.

If you’re looking for more time off from work, you might want to go to Ulyanovsk, a region in Russia about 550 miles east of Moscow.
And even though people won’t be working, I don’t think you’re going to find them strolling through the mall or in a neighborhood bistro. Try looking through the bedroom window (or maybe not).
Sept. 12 has been declared a Day of Conception and couples are given the time off to procreate (it’s actually only half a day, so make it quick, no romance). Couples who give birth on June 12 -- Russia’s national day -- will win a prize, money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.
This is the third year that the region has held the contest, designed to stem the tide of the country’s declining population. Last year, 78 babies were born on June 12, more than triple the region’s daily average.
How do you think that woman who goes into labor early on June 11 is going to feel? Or as 11:59 p.m. on June 12 is approaching? So, every time Junior does something the parents don’t approve of, I can just hear Mom and Dad, “Can’t you do anything right? After all we went through. Just think what we could have had if you had only been on time.”

Being a parent can be a tough job. Each thing that happens in the life of a parent and child is a learning experience. No classroom for this stuff.
But there are some things that should be common sense. If we all just had a little more common sense.
I have been collecting news briefs that have run in the paper about parents and here are my nominations for the Best Parent award.
The man from the Quakertown area who left his 6-week-old son in the car while he did his drug deals. “I wish I never did it,” he said in an act of conscience (was he upset because he left his kid in the car or because he was caught dealing?).
The Pa. man who left his 16-month-old son in the car while he shopped for porn. He “made an honest mistake” the man said in his own defense.
The western Pa. woman who played the role of a stripper at her teenage son’s birthday party. Apparently their plans to ride go-carts fizzled.
The Montgomery county woman who held a drinking party for her teenagers and their friends and took her daughter and a 14-year-old boy to a hotel where she left them overnight.
The New Jersey woman who drove the getaway car during a bank robbery by her twin 14-year-old daughters. Mom picked out the bank, the toy gun and cut the eyeholes in the nylons the girls used as masks, according to the prosecution. Keeping it all in the family, I see. A day out with the girls. A bonding experience.
Where were these people in the line when they gave out the brains -- or the common sense?