Overdoing the Olympics
Now that the 2012 Olympics are at long last over, I pose again the question I asked on Facebook when they began: am I alone in being constitutionally unable to care less about them?When I asked that question what now seems like several epochs ago, it brought a heap of opprobrium for its alleged cynicism and left over journalistic jaundice.Yet I insist it is a question that deserves a serious answer given the money, energy, attention, time, and manic-depressive torment the Games are said to demand of our country and our culture.Indeed, one headline that caught my eye claimed that the nation’s soul had been restored because our women’s soccer team won one of the medals after apparently being “robbed” by the Americans a few days before.Our soul restored? By women’s soccer
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