One woman will win but Dilma has surely lost.

Chess died the day Garry Kasparov lost to a machine, Deep Blue. Football ended the day Brazil lost 7-1 to the German machines. Even a lower division team in the Brazilian league would not have given up 7 goals to Germany so why the national team was so helpless is impossible to know. All the players, except Fred, play for the top clubs in Europe so they cannot be that poor. In the 1998 final against France it was rumored that star striker, Ronaldo had a fit before the match, so clearly he should not have played. The whole team seemed to be standing around demoralized. Brazil lost by 3 goals to France, with 2 goals coming from corners. It is possible that the whole team suffered convulsions this time for the defending to be so abysmal. Germany will probably win today and the ' Beautiful Game ' will be replaced by ' Vorsprung Durch Technik'. What it does is to damage the chances of Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff to win the reelection in October. She is still ahead of her opponents, Eduardo Campos and Aecio Neves in opinion polls but this humiliation maybe too much for the people already protesting against corruption and uncontrolled inflation. Apparently in the past defeats at the World Cup have not influenced elections results but a humiliation at home will be too much. One woman will win tonight. Either Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany or Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina but Dilma Rousseff is a sure loser. In this triangle even the loser tonight will be ahead of Dilma. For us the interest is gone so we will get to know the result from television news tomorrow. But there is happy news. Seems that Tracey Emin has sold an unmade bed called ' My Bed ' as a work of art for $4.7 million. It features a bed with rumpled sheets, empty vodka bottles, cigarette packets and condoms. What it says about a woman who is so slovenly that she has not made her bed, smokes in bed, is a drinker and clearly of loose morals we do not know but it is reassuring to know that there are people rich enough to pay over $4 million for garbage. Any rubbish that someone will pay millions for is deemed a work of art. Meanwhile a female dermatologist has blamed William Shakespeare for the female preoccupation with a flawless skin. Apparently old Will was forever cursing people with carbuncles, boil and plague sore. So, all the women in India buying buckets of Fair and Lovely are lovers of Shakespeare. Wow! Who knew that all our girls are so highly educated? To end with football hope the referee is spot on tonight and we do not have to say," A pox on him."