I think the Olympics has likely been ruined by literally decades of bribery, doping, sex scandals

and---over-arching it all---greed.

I am old enough to recall when the only negatives associated with the stellar displays of athletic abilities was the nasty USSR's use of "performance enhancers" and one terrible terrorist attack. These were the exceptions to the otherwise admirable every-four-years "Olympic experience.

I am, sadly, no longer interested in watching a spectacle that is contaminated by power hungry national leaders and money-grubbing corporate interests. I have sympathy for the athletes, but none for the corrupt "organizers" who abandoned the Olympic ideal decades ago.

Worth reposting: "Stress is the body's physiological response to having to constantly suppress the

overwhelming urge to slap the shit out of some sonofabitch who richly deserves it!"

Totally wrong does not mean "worthless". nt

Those of us who grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks" do have one talent that those in the

"better" neighborhoods seldom acquire: we recognize arrogance and condescension almost immediately.

You see, we spent our formative years being told we were not expected to ever amount to much. We weren't "supposed to" go to college or date doctor's daughters or succeed at any career that did not involve callouses and dirty fingernails.

Some on my side of the B & O tracks accepted their "place" and never complained about it. With the support of intelligent loving parents, I grew up resenting the hell out of being told what I could not do.

Today, I am more amused than resentful of those who presume their superiority---for any reason. Such arrogance is a form of ignorance that those who practice it will likely never understand.

One last thing: I typed the above as a WHITE man who grew up resenting being told, in essence, not to be "uppity". I can only try to imagine what non-whites had to endure.

This is the first question that popped into my head as soon as I heard that Trump had taken

"Classified" and "Top Secret" documents to Mar-A-Lago when he left the White House: "Has he sold any yet?"

I have not heard any mention of this by those reporting about the theft, but is it at all unreasonable to suspect?

Any truth to the rumor that Marjorie Taylor-Greene will be featured in a new line of

"SOUPERGIRL" comics?

As rogue truckers threaten to blockade major cities with their rigs, I'm wondering if there is such

an offense as "willful endangerment of public health" or something similar.

These blockades will stop firemen, police, ambulances and moms-to-be on their way to the hospital.

A suggestion for Ms. Taylor-Greene: if you want people to pay more tension to your pubic speaking,

you will need to be more circumcised with your choice of vocabularities. If you aren't sure you know the defamation of a word, you should omiss it from your remarkables.

Then, too, you need to speak more clearfully. Don't slurp your words---electrocute from your diagram! This will make your announciation more legible and your hearers will apprehend you better.

In closing, I think you should ass chew all bulgur words---they make you sound the way you look, so-----

Just so y'all know you're not alone, I too occasionally clench my fists, grind my teeth, mutter

obscenities, roll my eyes and yell at the tv.

But, I ain't givin' up!

So, it's been reported that Trump was seen EATING paper from documents he'd torn to pieces. Now,

we hear about wads of paper with print on it clogging the pipes from Trump's White House toilet. It is being ASSUMED that he simply THREW the paper into the toilet and flushed.

Is it possible he has some digestive problems and that the wads of paper were "deposited" in the toilet in another way?

After all, no matter what the problem we are told to remember: "This, too, shall pass!"