Some random thoughts from my Facebook page
I’m finding (re the Holympics) the unashamed jingoism & nationalistic prattle, the reporting on tedious trivia, and various rejoicing over conspicuous consumption (the US basketball team ensconced on a luxury liner comes to mind) more than a little irritating. .. whatever happened to sport for sport’s sake? Suspect I have become a grumpy old man.
and later…
Just wondering if, among all the questions re Australian swimming vs the US & why we are not so good if anyone in the media has considered the simple dynamic of population size. 322 million vs about 25 million gives the US – all other things being equal – 14 times more likelihood of producing a high calibre swimmer or runner or megalomaniacal politician. Even allowing for inequalities that still gives one side of the equation some advantage, surely.
and this..
Inkstained fingers 