My mini-primer on the Beijing Olympics (an OT post)

I began loving the Olympics as a kid, before they became just another reality show. I remember watching the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in my family room with a super bad cold, and was lucky to have my parents take me to the 1976 Montreal Olympics, with "Silly Love Songs" seemingly omnipresent on the radio.

That being said, a few thoughts on these Beijing games:

* For the moral compromises the IOC made to its "ideals" in order to cash China's humongous check, it reminds me of the old saying: "Now that we know what you are, we just need to set the price."

* Check out some Team Handball late at night on CNBC or MSNBC, or online, Univision, or for those of us on the border, CBC. It's the coolest sport you've never heard of.



* I lurve me some Andres Cantor "goooooooaaaaallll" soccer calls. If you can get past the fugly U.S. soccer unis, enjoy:



* Channel 4 did a piece the other night on one of my favorite pieces of local sports trivia: Detroit was the runner-up to host the '68 Summer Olympics. (If anyone has the video, please send me a link?) In the meantime, check out this fascinating bid film the city put together, back when we were part of the First World, and had some civic hope.



* Finally, the sport that makes the Summer Olympics all worthwhile:

Women's
Beach
Volleyball

Woo-hoo!

Our, ummmm, man? In China?

"I'm getting a 'lil hungry, girls. You know where I kin find this General Tsao guy? Is he sorta like Colonel Sanders?"

Kwame's in The Can!

... for parole violation.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

You're a lawyer, dude. How do you play Chicken with a judge on YOUR OWN BAIL?!

Geez, he should be blown out of office if only for being such a dumb-ass, especially after dodging the same bullet not two weeks ago.

BTW, for the record, Hizzoner's tentative Prison Bitch Name is "Nut Buster."

And, even thought I don't know these guys, you gotta check out KwameMugShot.com. It's hilarious. Tell 'em I sent ya.

Today's Obmemea: Why New Oil Drilling is Bogus

Do you think that the oil companies, currently making historically obscene profits, will spend any of that money to drill for more oil in more places more quickly, so as to lower our prices and their profits? Which would, in turn, more quickly deplete the finite amount of oil the oil companies need to exploit to survive? Do you think the oil companies, if they could make it work for themselves, are not drilling the offshore leases they already have just because they're lazy?

Of course not.

That's why John W. McBush is conning you.

Thank God Favre's Whining is Over (for now)

Our long national nightmare is over. Hallelujah.

But why all the fuss over a one-time Super Bowl champ? Yes, that's one more than I've won, but it ranks Favre up there with the legendary likes of Brad Johnson and Mark Rypien. If it truly comes down to rings, Favre is only slightly better than Barry Sanders: amazing individual stats, but to what end?

As for why the Packers let him go? Well, in the playoffs, the chances of Favre running the NFC playoff table without at least one game on the Frozen Tundra are remote. And, really, after a 16 game season and two or three playoff games, can a guy pushing 40 succeed in a night game(!) in Green Bay weather -- -2 and -24 wind chill last January? From the most recent looks of it, no.

Why McCain groups Barack with Paris and Britney

It's so obvious, I'm surprised that no one mentioned it, but for the MSM sturm und drang about how his ads have cheapened The Process. (Dear MSM, you might want to think again; check out #8)

John McCain is so old out-of-touch that, from his perspective, Obama is as young and irresponsible as those two ladies young women.

Only in American politics is a 47-year-old U.S. Senator and father of two a "young man." As Leiberman no doubt says all the time in his one-man caucus, "Oy vey."

In the meantime, thank you Funny or Die, for arranging the rebuttal.

"See you at the debates, bitches," indeed.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Non Sequitur of the Day: #27

"So if you love me /
Why'd you let me go?"

A Change Election demands a changing vocabulary, Part I

Driving around a few days ago, I came up with a stray random thought (as I am wont to do). For the purposes of copyright and the (hopefully) inevitable marketing blitz which occasionally comes off a newly-coined word or phrase, please consider this the date of publication.

As always, your thoughts are welcome.

"Obmemea" (pronounced "Ohb-meem-ah")(noun) -- A unit of cultural or political information in support of the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, such as a political idea, proposal, policy or practice, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

Non Sequitur of the Day: #26

"If you don't expect too much from me /
You might not be let down."

Fun on the Internets: "Stop Surfing Porn and Help Someone" Edition

Colgate is currently sponsoring a contest to donate a pediatric fun center for a hospital in the city that gets the most votes. Right now, Detroit's Children's Hospital of Michigan is straggling, but it's a surmountable lead. Yo, represent The D: click the link and help.