Daily Office:
Thursday
Morning
¶ Condi: You may recall that, during the hours in which she did not pine after a foregone career as a concert pianist, Condoleezza Rice was supposed to be an expert in Soviet containment. Evidently, that doesn’t have anything to do with Russia, as HuffPost writer Chris Kelly observes.
¶ Medals: Because watching television is against my religion, I’m forced to get my Olympics coverage from other sources. Happily, RomanHans is doing a prize-winning job.
Noon
¶ When, O When?: Why don’t we have gap years? Breaks between high school and college that give young people a taste of real life for a change? You’d think it would be an American specialty. Instead, it’s another example of lost mojo.
Night
¶ Dear Fr Tony: Father Tony has an advice column — and who better? If this opening Q & A is any indication, black and white will be giving way to living color.
Oremus…
Morning, cont’d
§ Condi. And what a laff riot it was to read the Times editorial this morning that included the following one-liner in its laundry list of oughts:
Ms. Rice should also go to Moscow and deliver the message that this war is seriously straining relations.
Even the editors can’t make that prospect sound effective or important.
§ Medals. Guy Trebay, by the way, thinks that athletes used to be more fetching. He makes the rippling musculature of today sound like the outmoded shoulder pads of tomorrow.
Noon, cont’d
§ When? I’m sure that students would be all for it. What looks like a hurry to get off to college may just be a hurry to get out of the house.
Night, cont’d
§ Dear Tony. Sometimes — usually — the best advice is the one word that you don’t want to hear: “Think!”
Re : Olympics : thank you for alerting me to that funny, dead-on post.
I don’t watch them because NBC treats them not as a sporting event, but as an infomercial for their advertisers, with a few moments of actual sport thrown in.
The ‘up close and personals’ are nauseating. I really don’t care about how Billie Ray Palooka got to the Games, just show me the damn event.
And ultimately, with all the doping, who cares?
FD: When I saw the front page of my local paper this morning I wanted to kick myself for not watching Olympic tennis: there was a huge, pretty photo of James Blake celebrating his win over Federer. Would’ve enjoyed seeing that. (Not because he’s American–because he’s James Blake!)
Yvonne,
I am on holiday in London and have been totally cut off from the Olynmpics. I would have liked to see that match and the Nadal-Djokovic one as well….just heard Fed won the doubles gold so the trip was not in vain….I’d like to see him beat the Sampras total as I think he has a better whole court game. But he needs the French on his resume…..