08-22-2016, 03:38 PM
Now that they have ended:
!. Rio de Janeiro can certainly throw a party, can it not? Chicago would not have been as fun.
2. The US got an ungodly number of medals, due in no small part to the near-absence of the tainted Russian Olympic team. Using the Olympics for propaganda purposes is somewhat inevitable, but doping athletes to rack up the medals is a horrible way to do it. "Cheat and don't play" is a reasonable policy for the protection of athletes.
3. Generation X has practically aged out of Olympic competition now.
!. Rio de Janeiro can certainly throw a party, can it not? Chicago would not have been as fun.
2. The US got an ungodly number of medals, due in no small part to the near-absence of the tainted Russian Olympic team. Using the Olympics for propaganda purposes is somewhat inevitable, but doping athletes to rack up the medals is a horrible way to do it. "Cheat and don't play" is a reasonable policy for the protection of athletes.
3. Generation X has practically aged out of Olympic competition now.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.