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I just read a fantastic article by Jeremy Bloom, the world-class freestyle skiier who has been continuously screwed by the NCAA for trying to play wide receiver on the football team at the University of Colorado.

In this article, Josh Elliott tries to make a case for the elimination of any subjective event: gymnastics, diving, figure skating, boxing, etc. To quote Elliott: "If it can’t be won on the track, in the lane lines or with one more goal than the other folks, it has no place in the world’s [...]

JibJab put out an absolutely hilarious parody of both Kerry and Bush to the tune of "This Land is Your Land." They were promptly threatened with a lawsuit for copyright infringement by Ludlow Music, Inc. JibJab turned to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for legal assistance and has recently won a settlement. It [...]

The BBC is reporting that Vice President Cheney has publicly rejected the idea of a federal law banning gay marriage. Cheney, whose own daughter is a lesbian, is publicly contradicting his own administration with this stance.
While this does not really contradict what he has said in the past, he has been notably silent while [...]

The L.A. Times is speculating that ABC may eliminate Monday Night Football! Ack! Even though it is ABC’s most popular prime-time program, with a history back to 1970, it apparently loses $150M a year to put it on. On top of this, the NFL is looking to actually increase the amount their [...]

E.M. Swift pretty much sums up my feelings about the entire Olympic gymnastic events, with the exception that he didn’t blast Svetlana Khorkina for being the stuck-up bitch that she clearly is. In his article, Swift pretty much hits on the major frustrations that my wife and I experienced, from the complete robbing of [...]

This is a really interesting map of the election results in the 2000 presidential campaign, by county, for the entire country. Most of it is what one expects: urban areas are blue and rural areas are red, most of New England and all of the Northern California coast are blue. What I found [...]

I’ve been watching the Olympics for the past week and so have seen quite a bit of gymnastics. It seems that the vault doesn’t use a pommel horse anymore and instead has this strange new device. In the back of my mind, I’ve been wondering what the story is, as the commentators haven’t [...]

Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has declined the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military honor bestowed by the United States. President Bush wishes to present it in honor of the UK’s support of the Iraq war, even as most of the rest of the world criticized the [...]

I you haven’t seen this yet, check it out. Hilarious!

This is completely beyond my understanding. Apparently, a 16-year old girl in Iran was charged with "moral corruption," which is a strange euphemism for having been raped. So, just to be clear, she was being charged for having been the victim of rape. In her trial, she was not allowed to have [...]

In Charleston, WV, a couple was arrested for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts to a campaign rally. Apparently, they were not making any noise at all and had simply marked out the word "Bush" on their shirts and wrote in marker on the back "Love America, Hate Bush." They were arrested for trespassing. The [...]

Everybody with a brain knows that this missle shield business is utter bullshit, both politically and technically. Even ignoring the politics, this is a problem that current technology simply can’t solve. The Bush administration forges ahead anyway, for political capital, and tries to make this out to be a feather in its cap. [...]

CNN reported today that Ted Kennedy, a Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, has had difficulty flying commerical airlines after a "T. Kennedy" was placed on the secret security watch list. It is difficult to guess whether this was the current administration giving Kennedy a poke, or if it was a good-faith action to track someone [...]

Sports Illustrated has a very interesting article about the anger of the Iraqi soccer team at President Bush for referring to them in his campaign advertisements. While certainly the Iraqi success at the Olympics has been heartwarming (notwithstanding the marginal nature of Olympic soccer), and certainly life for an Iraqi soccer player, at least, [...]