Because I like to write. Because I don't often enough. And because you should never start a sentence with "and" or "because" - this should be interesting.
Well, it seems that the Americans are really improving their international reputation at the Olympic games in Vancouver (sarcasm).
First, there was this douchebag, US snowboarder Nate Holland, who criticized snowboarders from other countries for wearing pants that were too tight. It's not aligned with snowboarding's anti-establishment roots, he claims. The US snowboarding times is sponsored by Nike, Microsoft and Visa - three HUGE American corporations who, I doubt, have any interest whatsoever in snowboard purism. Besides, that whole flannel/jeans combo has a label, you know. It was made by someone, somewhere to make money for an establishment of sorts. Idiot.
Then, NBC and Shaun White & Co. get busted for cursing on live television after White's historic win. Did anyone see that display of athleticism? I don't even like the halfpipe, but I was shouting a few "holy shits" on my side of the TV. Some are trying to blame Shaun White and his coach for their crude language. He just found out he won a gold medal. Somehow, "Jolly good!" doesn't seem appropriate for the situation. Also, it's NBC's fault for sticking a microphone on just about every square inch of those Canadian mountains. But, in all reality, no one's to blame. Lighten up, America!
Finally, speedskater Sven Kramer of the Netherlands, is getting crap for the rudeness he displayed to an American NBC reporter (see video below). He had just won a gold medal, and minutes after the race, a reporter from NBC asks him to state his name, his country and the medal he just won. Kramer then says, "Are you stupid? Hell no, I'm not going to do that." Good for him, I say. I mean it would be pretty awkward and degrading for a gold medal winner to be seen on American TV saying, "Hi, my name is Sven Kramer. I'm from the Netherlands and I just won a gold medal in speedskating." This is the Olympics, not a 4th grade book report.
On that note, this American is off to Vancouver! (No, seriously, I am.)
On the 'modern' Republican party: "And your party decided the tradition of separating church and state had an expiration date. You love the constitution but you seem to pick through that document the same way you pick through the Bible – with all the effectiveness of eating corn on the cob through a picket fence."
Read Helen's new post on Obama's (fruitless?) attempt at bipartisanship. Read all the way through because this time Margaret pipes in.
