Via CC, a personage previously unknown to me: Caster Semenya. Let the games begin.

Brilliant passages include:

...the philosopher Bernard Suits, who once described sports as “the voluntary acceptance of unnecessary obstacles.”

Rio.

Thanks, you've been very helpful.

Very interesting piece, Crid. On a side note:

the I.O.C.: the Olympic Committee members are getting a per diem of nine hundred dollars

While athletes get nothing.

Per diem = per day.

Idiocy: VIDEO: Rioters chanting "black power" as a neighborhood business burns in #milwaukee

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/764669696708866048

Some of you will have read articles that state that just one Pre Market Tobacco Application (PMTA) will cost anywhere between $300,000 to $1million dollars and take roughly 1700 man hours. But how many of you have an idea of what the FDA want in order to simply look at a product for a PMTA, never mind approve it?

https://www.totallywicked-eliquid.com/blog/2016/08/11/want-to-know-what-a-pmta-really-involves/

This pisses me off for some reason.

Back to back in my feed just now.

It would be difficult to describe the nuance by which this caresses my tender heart... When I was a high school boy, I loved my King dearly.

Olympics— how to get your javelins back (London).

(PS-- I have never eaten a Whopper™. I'm a doublecheesburger boy, all the way home.)

Flood.

Thanks, you've been very helpful. ~ Crid at August 14, 2016 1:48 AM

That was hysterical. Made my day.

Re: BLM types burned a gas station in Milwaukee while chanting "Black power." One twitterer wrote that those idiots will have to use black power now that they can't get gasoline.

Great Javelin video Crid. The environ-MENTAL-ists would have wanted the poor javelins to take a bus, however.

Well, obviously, Mpetrie, such a scheme for javelin retrieval is not environmentally sustainable. Then IOC should be ashamed.




Meanwhile, just look at this guy.

That messed-up formatting is Amy's fault, because of her blog software choices.

Amy Alkon the Advice Goddess started ISIS.

Given the racial goofballery seen here last week, you'll probably think this is a rollicking good read:

If Donald Trump were black, would the GOP base accept him? The answer is obvious.

Presented with such a presidential candidate — one who seemingly went out of his way to personify every negative stereotype our society holds about black male sexuality, avarice and propensity to violence — how would the Republican Party base and conservative entertainment industry respond? Would Bill O’Reilly and Jerry Falwell Jr. praise Donell Trump as a model American businessman and moral leader? Or would they lament how this habitual homewrecker and “baby daddy” to three separate women symbolized the epidemic of African American absentee fatherhood? Would Rush Limbaugh insist that Donell Trump’s half-literate tirades were the heartfelt pleas of a down-to-earth, blue-collar billionaire? Or instead treat his listeners to a rant about the inanities of Ebonics?

Crid, that person sort of exists, and his name is Charles Barkley. And according to polls I've seen, he stands a pretty good chance of winning the governorship of Alabama if he ever decides to run.

Despite his claim of being misquoted in his autobiography, I regard Barkley as Trump's moral superior in all respects. This damns with faint praise, leaving him no better equipped to serve the public in elected office.