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We're At War!!
WE ARE A NATION AT WAR America lost the bid for the Olympics because she had one quite recently in terms of Olympiads past. No other nation in the world has hosted as many Summer Olympics as we already have. 1996 was just 3 Olympiads (12 years ago!) How greedy and arrogant can we get. In hindsight, Obama had NO chance of persuading the vote to go ...
Posted to Politics by brerlou on October 3, 2009
Slate, Dragaon Slayer of CW! vs. Chicago nerds!
Slate, oh Slate, fierce critic of the “MSM!” Dragon slayer of Conventional Wisdom! Champion of journalistic integrity! Of what do you speak?Thank god for the ‘nerds’ of journalism. People like Ben Joravsky and Tom Tresser still believe in and practice investigative journalism. They ask hard questions. They even expect ...
Posted to Politics by Squeek on October 2, 2009
Funny Explanation
This graphic provides a pretty good explanation http://www.olympicringschicago.com/
Posted to Politics by WPercy on October 2, 2009
swim suits
Everyone should have the option to use the latest, fastest, best overall design.
Posted to Sports Nut by david wayne osedach on July 31, 2009
O, Canada!
As a person living and breathing the Olympics in Whistler, BC (2 hours north of Vancouver) I may have another perspective on the Women's Ski Jumping controversy that no one seems willing to bring up. I believe these women are going after the wrong issue. Women's ski jumping didn't make the IOC standards of 'sport' because there are too few ...
Posted to XX Factor by Ms2B on April 23, 2009
lung capacity
I would think that everyone's reaction to marijuana would be different regardless of lung capacity. Just like some people can get drunk on one drink. It's more of a brain capacity.
Posted to Explainer by david wayne osedach on February 4, 2009
Phelps and marijuana
What does Phelps care? Really? He's got more than enough to party for the rest of his life.
Posted to Explainer by david wayne osedach on February 3, 2009
An article like this should mention Dick Fosbury
Otherwise, it could flop. It would also be interesting to read a story about the legendary leaping ability of the great white American Buffalo who can reach nearly the same height as Mr. Fosbury did in his Olympian victory. http://www.ask.com/web?q=how+high+can+bison+jump%3F&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir
Posted to Human Nature by Greenvanholzer on December 8, 2008
Phelps 100 fly
I agree with William ''Mr. Olympic Crankypants'' Saletan for the most part here. Everyone I watched the replays of the 100 fly with seemed brainwashed by the commentators who kept saying ''clearly Phelps out-touched Cavic.'' The replays are not clear at all, no matter the resolution or playback speed. But I think Saletan makes a big assumption ...
Posted to Human Nature by mrchompchomp on August 25, 2008
underage Chinese Olympic contestants
Not only does China know that some of it's Olympic contestants were underage; it doesn't care if everyone knows. Cheating and stealing are part of the economic miracle.
Posted to Today's Business Press by david wayne osedach on August 24, 2008

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