Comments on: Olympic Apathy

By: Dodd

Dodd — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:46:57 +0000

Kevin Drum is right:

Now there's something you don't hear every day.

By: Intergalactic Capitalist, the StarBanker Blog

Intergalactic Capitalist, the StarBanker Blog — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:05:54 +0000

Are You Watching?
Outside the Beltway ponders the Olympics *yawn*. I think I have watched at least 15 minutes of coverage so far and that was too much. The drama for viewers is gone, it has become the "National Relativity Games." I used...

By: John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:46:24 +0000

The canoeing event sounds lame, but is as athletic as any other rowing event. It can be criticized as superfluous, but certainly requires strength and endurance.

And it's obvious you've never played competitive badminton before.

By: Feste...a foolsblog

Feste...a foolsblog — Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:07:40 +0000

Hurricanes, Windbags and The French I've gone quiet for a few days as the news cycled into the partisan black hole of August recess and quite frankly I couldn't give a damn, my dear. Hurricane Charley: I totally agree with Robert Tagorda; it's obviously a...

By: Mark the Pundit

Mark the Pundit — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:06:48 +0000

Olympic Doldrums James Joyner writes about how he (and many others) simply don't find the olympics exciting anymore. While I generally agree with the points, he does write this: They no longer show events "live," instead broadcasting edited summaries of them long...

By: The Window Manager

The Window Manager — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:58:25 +0000

The Olympics? Yeah, Whatever...
Outside the Beltway has a good roundup of blogger reactions to the Olympics, most of them underwhelming.

By: PoliBlog

PoliBlog — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:51:12 +0000

The Glory That is the Olympic Games
Or, not so much.

James Joyner sums up my views on the Olympics quite well.

Heck, I'd rather watch an inter-squad scrimmage of the Dallas Cowboys (indeed, I once paid hard-earned cash to see the Boys scrimmage against the Houston Oilers).

Of c...

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:40:32 +0000

I think that there have been movements to get Bridge aand poker into the Games.

By: Robert Tagorda

Robert Tagorda — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:53:39 +0000

Well, I admit to being a fool for everything competitive. If you put cock fighting on ESPN2 with the proper color commentary, I'd probably watch that, too.