Open Threads

A touching tribute during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show to all the search and rescue dogs. To date, this is the only tribute that has made me tear up (although the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing the National Anthem with the WTC flag got me pretty close). I wish I knew why I instinctively like dogs more than people.

**** Update ****

I saw Great van Facelift on Fox News and realized why I instinctively like dogs more than people. Dogs don’t talk.

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New link for Sophismata.

And if you have forgotten, the Westminster Dog Show is tonight on USA (actually right now, as I write this, they are showing my favorite, the Jack Russell).

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I am not as anti-Olympics as David Carr at the Samizdata or the Instapundit (although I am sure that I have already witnessed the finest the Olympics has to offer, which of course was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing on opening night), but it really irks me when I hear the chattering classes call some of these things sports.

Folks- Ice skating is not a sport. It is an athletic event. Sure, it takes skill, it takes stamina, it takes coordination- but it is not a sport. In order for an athletic event to be considered a sport, you have to be playing or doing something in which you play offense and defense. Anything that is judged, anything that is voted on- that is not a sport. Baseball, for example, which is far less exhausting than say, cross country skiing, is a sport. Cross Country skiing is an athletic event. In fact, baseball is the only sport that I am aware of in which the defense starts with the ball every play. But that is trivia.

So, in case you are confused, let’s go through it.

Ice Dancing is an ATHLETIC EVENT

Hockey is a SPORT.

Down-hill skiing is an ATHLETIC EVENT.

Basketball is a SPORT.

It isn’t that difficult, so quit lumping figure skating in the same category as lacrosse, hockey, soccer, baseball, rugby, Australian rules football, football, or for goodness sakes, Buzkashi.

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IF anyone was ever curious why the terrorists did not take us seriously, this is a partial reason:

SALT LAKE CITY — An airline passenger who allegedly got up to go the bathroom less than 30 minutes before landing became the first person arrested under a new federal flight regulation adopted for the Olympics.

Richard Bizarro, 59, could get up to 20 years in prison on charges of interfering with a flight crew.

We don’t deserve to be taken seriously. How putting middle-aged men in jail for using the bathroom fights terrorism is beyond me.

*** Update ***

Ken Goldstein has already come up with a defense for Mr. Bizarro.

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I have messed with this template all I choose to. Should anyone go absolutely nuts and decide to design a brand new website for me, that would be delightful. However, this is the best I can do right now, and I had to rely heavily on Mr. Quick and Ms. Hart.

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Bear with me. I am trying to find something I like. I thought I had found a color scheme I liked, and it was just too damned bright. Will Quick and Helen Hart have been helpoing me, but I am just getting disgusted now. Everything I try looks tacky and retina burning. Part of my problem was the arial font, which I have gotten rid of. Grumble…

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Well… One more post. The FBI failed to videotape or transcribe the marin County Mullah’s confession.

If this is true, EVERYONE who came near this needs to be FIRED.

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