Too much time on my hands?

I kind of feel bad about the fact that I haven't posted anything for about a week, but you have to understand I am quite literally a shut in these days and I really have nothing to report. But I have been watching a lot of TV.... A LOT... and you know what I realized, I really do love the Olympics.
And while China may be winning the medal count and have twice as many gold medals as the United States, it does my capitalist heart good to know that my country's gold medals look like this:










and NOT like this:

























I mean that's communism if ever I saw it! It's almost a tribute to the western hemesphere that the US didn't medal, but that fact puts us behind in the medal count and I can't abide that. And if you're wondering if I purposefully chose synchronized diving because I find it to be a non sport the answer is yes. I mean it is a sport, and it looks to be an impossible sport that requires children to be snatched from the cradle and trained for this one chance to claime honor and glory for family and country. But where does it exist outside the olympics and why can't we replace it with a crowd pleaser like... surfing....




See I even replaced it with another water sport! I am so progressive! But in all seriousness, surfing should be an olympic event, even if the great communist conspirosy of sychronized diving remains.




Speaking of communist/Chinese conspirasies... are you aware that all three gymnastics gold medals awarded thus far have been given to the Chinese? It's true! Both men's and women's team medals and the men's all around. You know what is even crazier than that? they totally deserved it. Yeah! Communist precision wins again. But the craziest thing was that in the men's all around the silver medalist (Hiroyuki Tomita from Japan) fell off the rings on his dismount and still took second! The fall was grizzly.... take a look...





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLuBUemWgc0&eurl=http://neswsports.com/2008/08/13/hiroyuki-tomita-japanese-gymnast-falls-off-rings-video/

and no, I haven't figured out how to just put my youtube videos on my blog like normal people do... so I guess I don't have too much time on my hands! I'm still looking for Fabian Hambuechen falling off the high bar so if you find that one, let me know. Gymnastics is dangerous! no wonder the chinese have to lie about the age of their girl's team! They are all broken before they reach the 16 year age requirement! ("Women's" would be a misnomer!)

But I really am catching the olympic spirit. I even have an olympic dream... I'd like this french guy to whack his head on some part of the pool. I was thinking the bottom, but the side or platform may have better odds.

"The Americans? We're going to smash them. That's what we came here for," Alian Bernard

Well... guess I'll have to settle for Jason Lezak making an amazing comeback and swimming a 46.06 100 meters (faster than he ever has before) to win the gold in the 400 meter relay. And hand Bernard his sorry french ass the silver. I just wish Lezak would have beat him again in the individual 100 meter swim. Lezak did take bronze in that race though, and that is his first individual medal ever so nice work there. I think it's totally lame that a man has the race of his life and all the interviewing reporter/newspapers/news anchors/media in general can say is, "How does it feel to know that you were able to keep Michael Phelp's hope of eight gold medals alive?" What the hell is that!?!?! The man just had an "olympic moment!!!" Give him his moment, he might deserve two. And I'm pretty sure he didn't win it for Phelps.

Eat Silver Bernard! Go cry to your Socialist President Sarkosy!

Lezak... here is your second moment... on my blog... you deserve more but its all I have.