China's Party, America's Win

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Well, all these words are very nice, but do you have any hard evidence that our showing in the olympics actually improved our image abroad? Or is this just another in what will no doubt be a long line of self-congratulatory exercises in wishful thinking by writers who, like a lot of us, are mortified at what Bush has done to not just our image overseas, but to our viablity as a nation?

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Note: What a coward. One merely asks for her to cite some actual documentation and that challenge proves to be such a n affront to her that she expunges my post. Just pathetic.

A Day in the Life of Covering Manny Ramirez

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Sports is kind of the Nero division of journalism. While the country is falling down around them, newspaper, radio and tv outlets spare no effort in covering a goofy athlete as if he just descended from Olympus.

Life is satire, satire is life.

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