  We study the gravity dual of a thermal gauge theory whose behavior parallels
that of thermal QCD in the far IR. The UV of our theory has infinite degrees of
freedom. We holographically renormalize the supergravity action to compute the
stress tensor of the dual gauge theory with fundamental flavors incorporating
the logarithmic running of the gauge coupling. From the stress tensor we obtain
the shear viscosity and the entropy of the medium at a temperature T, and
investigate the violation of the bound for the viscosity to the entropy ratio.
This is a shortened and simplified companion paper to arXiv:0902.1540, and is
based on the talks given by M. Mia at the "Strong and Electroweak Matter 2008"
workshop and the McGill workshop on "AdS/CFT, Condensed Matter and QCD" in the
fall of 2008.

High Energy Physics - Theory;High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;Nuclear Theory