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Overnight Open Thread (2-9-2014)Got home late so you get the 20 minute hurry-up ONT with a solid 16 minutes of quality effort. How USA Olympic bobsledder Johnny Quinn Escaped From His Bathroom Maybe cars cost extra.
And the 'Wall of Steel' police presence. And then you have the toilets. Now they've had toilets and bathrooms in Russia for a while so what the hell were they thinking? Oops - Sochi Games' Biathlon Track 130 Feet Too Short
There Are 6 Active U.S. Military Personnel Competing In Sochi One Reason I've Lost Interest in the Olympics As I've gotten older I've become more and more disenchanted with the Olympics. Part of this is the sheer amount of corruption and politics that's tied up with it these days but a large part is just due to the fact that nothing shown in the games has any interest to me. My earliest memories are of the 1976 and 1980 games and I remember watching entire events and following individual athletes through the Olympics. But today the networks don't show the events I have an interest in (which are mostly ones involving speed or strength over form and art) though you might get a highlight of an event if you're lucky. In fact most of the Olympic television coverage these days has become a reality show about athletes going to the Olympics rather than the actual Olympic events themselves. But another factor that this chart shows is that the number of events has doubled since 1988 which means each event gets even less coverage than before. Feh. In Praise Of Sochi Schadenfreude On why we should celebrate Russia's failure. We don't even have to bring up the fact that Putin has consistently undermined American interests, abetting brutal dictatorships in Syria and North Korea - not to mention, shielding Iran's nuclear ambitions. Surrounded by an army of 40,000 soldiers and police in a "ring of steel," Bob Costas can whitewash his host's misdeeds, but Russia's government is not only corrupt, and not only is it intolerant of gays, but according to Amnesty International, human rights violations by the government include killings, enforced disappearances and torture, and they are "frequent." According to Freedom of Information index by Reporters Without Borders, Putin belongs on a list with Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korea's Kim Jong-un, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Italian Mafia and Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov. UK Police Will Have Backdoor Access To National Health Records What could possibly go wrong? How To Succeed as a Political Cartoonist: Always Flatter, Never Challenge, Your Audience It was his politics, mostly, that lifted Herblock above his lack of technical skill to the Pulitzers and the medals and the honorary degrees. His ideas were as simple as his draftsmanship, and perfectly matched to the prejudices of the powerful journalists he hoped to please. The Post reviewer lists his big issues: "fascism, war, the bomb [presumably against], the environment, civil rights, lobbying reform [presumably for]." He didn't get much more complicated than that. The crudity of his politics and the crudity of his draftsmanship were intimately connected. What Is It With Totalitarian Countries and Working Toilets and Toilet Paper? I've been so amused by all the pictures and stories coming out of Sochi of how unprepared the area is for all the foreigners and reporters arrive for the Olympics. Is this any surprise from a society that continually failed to meet its five-year plans? The picture of the sign in the toilets telling people to place their toilet paper in a trash can rather than the toilet brought back unfond memories from the time I spent in the Soviet Union in 1979. That is what we had to do at all the toilets. And we were lucky if we had something recognizable as toilet paper to use. Often we had cut up squares of newspaper giving rise to many jokes about the best use of Pravda. Once we encountered squares of wax paper - not the most absorbent material which somehow misses the point of toilet paper. I wrote my husband at the time that we were inevitably going to win the Cold War since no modern country that could manage to provide toilets and toilet paper could defeat us. What is amazing is that they have not made much progress in modern bathroom implements since 1979. Remembering Robinson "Robbie" Risner He made a name for himself as an Ace in Korea but it was his time as a POW in Vietnam where he proved what he was really made of. James Robinson Risner was a man of humble origins, son of an Arkansas sharecropper, educated at secondary school level, not particularly ambitious, a common man save for two things: He could fly the hell out of an airplane; and, under terribly difficult circumstances as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, he rose to a level of heroic leadership matched by few men in American military history. And on Sep. 16th, 1965 he was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese and held for the next seven and half years. At the time of Robbie's capture there were 27 other Americans incarcerated in Hanoi, separated from each other, all doing their best to abide by the Code of Conduct for American Fighting Men. Once Risner determined that he was the Senior Ranking Office, he began to put structure and guidance into the POWs' lives, a sense of order and community, the very thing their captors were trying desperately to prevent. He would pay a terrible price for that leadership when the guards would catch him communicating, but they couldn't stop him. No matter how brutal the beatings, the next day he would be at it again. How Long Have the British Isles Been Isles? Now very long - barely 8,000 years which almost puts the Channel formation into historical times. The maps in question feature the area we know as northwest Europe and the British Isles from 18,000 to 5,000 BC. At the beginning, ice sheets covered the latter (especially Scotland). But the whole was one big land mass, because so much water was bound up in the ice that there was no English Channel, and the North Sea was a narrow finger of the ocean. It wasn't until 6,500 BC that the British Isles became "isles," when the waters rose significantly and separated them from the rest of Europe. Weekly Commenter Standings Top 10 commenters: Top 10 sockpuppeteers: The group. Yeah. Where it's at - the Twitter Tonight's post brought to you by Jay and kitteh: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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