The Olympic committee needs to ask themselves a simple question:

Does this event involve something that can be measured, weighed, counted, or timed?

If the answer is "No", then it means that you don't have a sport. You have entertainment.

The long jump is a sport. You can measure it.

Weight lifting is a sport. You can weigh it.

The 100 meter freestyle is a sport. You can time it.

Team handball is a sport. You can count it.

Nothing in gymnastics, diving or synchronized swimming meets those criteria.

Call them exhibitions, if you like, but they are no more "sport" than are the opening ceremonies.

I get the transgender thing. I'd like to see everyone treated equally in the workplace. I get the part about suing for damages.

What I don't get is why someone would sue to get a job working in a place where they aren't wanted.

Given that these people really don't want her working there, why would she sue to get the job? To make them miserable? To make herself miserable? Just to be vindictive?

That's the part that I don't get.

Are what Reagan's two terms would have been like had the guy not spent eight years napping.

Reagan gave us big government and reckless spending, but the war thing would have required too much attention.

We should be grateful, I guess.

Of course, almost every pitcher in softball is hot all the time.

I don't know that all pitchers are hot all the time, but it's certainly true if your name is Jennie Finch.

She's got that whole "hot" thing pretty well covered.

The Olympics are about many things. One of them is trying to do your best on the world stage.

Half-hearted efforts, even winning ones, aren't charming.

Neither is mocking your competitors, particularly those who are giving their best effort.

Bolt owed the sport, the Games, the public who paid to see him perform and above all, his competitors, a better effort.

What about the Clinton-hating trolls?

Well, there's his father in law, for example, convicted in 1948 for some shenanigans involving bootleg liquor.

http://tinyurl.com/45edz2

But maybe that doesn't count.

she chose not to abort her fifth child, now four months old, even after she discovered he had Down's syndrome (the fact that decision is newsworthy creates a weird implication that a Democratic woman would make a different decision.)

What no one is mentioning in all of this is that current law gave her the ability to make a decision, rather than having it made for her by the state.

Which, of course, she would apparently have preferred.

I doubt she'll bring any of Hillary's supporters to the booth.

So McCain figures that just any woman will satisfy Hillary's disgruntled supporters. It doesn't matter what her stands on women's issues are; she's a woman!

And by osmosis, McCain will look good standing next to a female candidate! And people will like him! And disregard his reprehensible policies!

It all reminds me of Stephen Colbert posing with his "black friend": http://tinyurl.com/6npjv6

Sarah Palin has smoked pot--legally and proudly.

...but with the all-important qualifiers:

1. She didn't like it.

2. She still thinks it should be illegal.

Yes, she smoked pot, and yes (rumors aside) she made a "choice" to keep her Down Syndrome baby.

The important part is that she thinks such actions should be illegal for everyone else.

She passes the hypocrisy test.

I couldn't disagree more. I agree that the Obama campaign should stay clear of this.

I'd even suggest that the media stay clear of it, except for the fact that opposing both sex education and birth control is a centerpiece of the McCain-Palin campaign.

Articles about Sarah Palin's "choice" to give birth to a Down Syndrome baby and the McCain-Palin campaign's announcement that Bristol has "chosen" to keep her baby make Bristol's story news.

After all, McCain-Palin want to take those choices away from everyone else.

The story became news the minute the McCain-Palin campaign reported the pregnancy. Once they did that, it became perfectly acceptable to report on it.

The personalities became the issues once the McCain-Palin camp started using them as political props.

If the McCain-Palin camp is going to sing the praises of Bristol for "choosing to keep her baby" then it's only fair to respond to it.

If you can't stand the heat...

Roe v. Wade

I can't get this square in my head...do Evangelicals really want Roe overturned, or are they happy with the nibbling that's occurring? Are they willing to wait for a hollowing out of abortion rights, or will they eventually demand a full scale reversal in return for their votes?

I think the evangelicals do want Roe overturned. I'm not so sure about the Republican party, though. For the past 30 years, the Republicans have enjoyed the support and donations of millions of single-issue voters. If the Republicans' self-professed goal of overturning Roe becomes reality, a lot of those single-issue supporters will abandon the party and take their money with them.

It's far better for the Republicans to keep talking up the "we want to overturn Roe" bit without actually doing anything about it. They keep the base energized and they keep the money rolling in.

Besides, if they really wanted to outlaw abortion or overturn Roe, they could have done it on a number of occasions during the past seven years. And yet all attempts to pass amendments failed to get out of committee, even when the Republicans controlled all three branches of government.

That said, they're an unpredictable lot, and if you support choice, you ignore them at your peril.

Black cars are the hottest on hot days because the color absorbs the heat.

Yes, but Black Cars Look Better in the Shade.