Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Ride, Get on Down, it's Bobsled Time

Olympics are in full swing, wow, tonight I found myself tensing up as the figure skating comes to a close for the evening. The bobsledding is also fun to watch, me and the beast want to do that in Vancouver 2010.

You see a few around, but for the most part there is a noticeable absence of black athletes in the winter Olympics, funny considering they dominate the summer Olympics. Chris Rock says it best in one of his standups, and I paraphrase. 'Just wait till they make a heated hockey rink, wait till you see Lebron on skates, he won't even need a stick, he'll just wack that puck around with his dick.' hahaha

Nationalism, in any regard, hmmm, I suppose I could make a big deal about it. I'm 'proud to be an American' and all that jazz, and I find myself pulling for the Deutsch in many cases, but for the most part, I'm impartial and don't cheer for athletes based on nationality. I go for the underdog, the long shots, the people with the coolest disposition, and of course if you throw a pre-event sob story in there, it will more than likely touch my heart, and I'm 'go team go.'

So far it's got me hooked, I love em' and I plan to beach myself all week long and watch as much as I can. I think its great to have 'friendly competition' on a global scale.

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As for the daily dose of cynicism and contradiction, I'll leave it to Noam Chomsky.

"Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators. "

"I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian na-nas off!" -- Sanka