Bring Back Naked Wrestling
Dick Dell is a much admired (certainly by us) editor who has traveled the world on behalf of Doubleday, then WorldBook, and now lives in Chicago. He’s written a stunning book on the Nez Perce uprising – and the country’s reaction to it – which will come out as soon as the publishing industry has been resuscitated. In the meantime, he posts occasional reports from the land of the Cubs, where he roots for the White Sox.
From his latest dispatch:
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Then there is the IOC.
They have just added golf and rugby to the 2016 and 2020 games. Rugby is played in England, Wales and Australia. Not exactly an international sport. And a stupid sport more violent than football. You can bet that there will be no Asian teams in competition. I know golf is at least an international preoccupation of untold numbers of people, but the ancient Greeks would be puzzled. People hitting a small ball with sticks is not in the same league as wrestling naked.
Had a call today from a friend in California. His background and profession are finance and economics and he is far left of Obama and is convinced his economic team is a disaster for all.
But today he was outraged because an over the counter drug which has quinine in it which he takes for some malady has been taken off the counter and become a prescription drug. Although it is exactly the same drug made by the same pharmaceutical, what cost him $7 before now costs him $40 and that is only what he pays after his insurance has paid the larger part of the cost. Go figure.
Onward and upward! Maybe climate change is affecting all of us psychologically in ways that are now being demonstrated especially by Republican politicians.
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Your friend’s experience is one more proof that the purveyors of legal drugs are guilty of more crimes than those selling illegal drugs.
Comment by Al — October 9, 2009 @ 10:43 pm