There is one company who has to have the greatest database and invesitigative software in the world. How I can move, and they know my new address 2 days later is beyond me. If my tastes change, these people know. I cannot escape these people. They track me down no matter how I try and cover my tracks. If I buy a Kelly Clarkson CD (for a niece), they will know about it quickly and store that data forever. Therefore I think that if they really want to track terrorists and consumer purchasing trends the US government should contract out to the BMG Music Club. There is no escaping their database.

A friend of mine got married several states away. Few people from our area attended. They visited our town many months later. To celebrate their wedding with their friends, they had a weekend with us. They bought a block of tickets to a baseball game one night and passed them out to everybody. The next they threw a huge shindig for everybody, where the bride even wore her wedding dress. They refused to allow anybody to give gifts, and suggested their two favorite charities if anybody felt the need, and they even had representatives from each charity speak briefly at the party, which included knid words about the couple as they were actively involved with those charoties. It was all fantastic!

If you can't go, you can't go. You can celebrate with them later.

I bet The Great One wasn't involved. I'd give odds.

I also bet his wife will be an enthusiastic lover for a few months.

Reading letters following a column about the Winter Olympics, and I find somebody with their lips firmly planted on Lance's bottom. Do these guys walk around wearing t-shirts with an image of themselves kneeling behind Lance? They seem to pop up everywhere! I am amazed the guy didn't go on a rant about how the Frenchman who won the downhill was ...... well, French.

On the Luge, 87 miles an hour while on your back, inches off the ice is pretty amazing. I rode a wheeled bobsled down the old concrete course in Lake Placid this summer. We went about half speed, sitting upright. It was amazing. I can't imagine going twice as fast, on my back, hoping my stomach doesn't block my view of what I am about to hit.

I loved Susan Sarandon, Yoko Onno, Peter Gabriel and all the other activists being in the open ceremonies. I could probably have done with hearing Yoko read anything, but just knowing Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin had steam coming out of their ears was wonderful!

Who is stiffer, Brian Williams or the frozen blue guy "S" is the Chevy commercials? I am thinking Brian.

I was wondering the same thing about that guy with the voice: Who is that guy? I think if we saw him, he would probably be 5'4" and 115 pounds with thick glasses amd a pronounced limp. However, if Sha Na Na ever regroups....

Anon: Does anyone know of a web site doing a "Separated at Birth" feature on snowboarder Shaun White and comedian Carrot Top?

KIng: I think, if you get past the color of his hair, he's a dead ringer for Carly Simon.

Well, thanks for that image King. I will never look at one of those sexy Carly Simon album covers again. However, you nailed it. He could be her son, or grandson.

What does her church say about those two living in sin? Does the church website still say they are not having sex, but only living together for financial reasons?

Summer Sanders was always considered a great addition to any US Swim team because she always had her best swims on relays, just killing herself for her country and her teammates. Even when her individual results were lacking, she always kicked ass on the relays. What a shame Shani Davis cannot feel the same way. I am guessing he does not have much national pride? It certainly seems he only cares about individual results and not about any other. Davis is only in one race, Hederick is in 5, including the same race Davis is in. Hederick wants the US team to do well.

When Ted Ligety won the gold in combined, he was tackled by teammates, and then hoisted up on their shoulders. There was much celebration by the whole team. Everybody was thrilled for him! When Chad Hedrick won his gold, last Olympics' champion of the same event, an American, was by the track in tears for his friend. Should Davis win gold, I doubt any of that happens.

Great athletes step forward and perform whenever they can. "They want the ball" to quote a really bad movie. Others don't.

Back to swimmers, these girls and guys are determined to show that the US has the best relay in the Olympics. They fight hard to be on the relay, and sometimes get upset if they are not chosen. You didn't see Apolo skipping the short track relay.

As for King's repeated implication that it might be racism by saying the circumstances mught be different if Davis was white, I am not buying it. There is certainly no evidence to suggest it, and our skating teams are fairly ethinically diverse, even if Davis is the only African American.

It is funny that he not only does not want to skate the relays, but he is also one of the few skaters not to be on the team picture on the US Speedskating website, speedskating.org. Has he even been shown in the crowd at any speedskating event? Para and a few others have.