The World Cup is all about numbers, and I just don’t mean the kind that have Spain being 7/2 favorites to win the whole shebang. For instance, there are 32 teams playing in nine host cities in front of 400,000 (mostly male) tourists, but the matches are only 90 minutes long, and there are 24 hours in a day, so that’s where the 40,000 hookers come in. With that in mind, South African president Jacob Zuma is trying to get one billion condoms shipped to the country before the first, er, ball is handled. Sanity, thy days are numbered. Read more.