Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:54 AM by Gene

Each quadrennial, the athletes deliver competitive masterpieces, spectacles so dazzling that we forget the problems that went into making them.

I have discovered why THE GAMES inspire so much buncombe from the typists: they can be CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED. Perhaps if you are rich or have the connections or are a scribbler, and can get around with relative ease, they are a transcendent experience. But most of us only know the masterpieces through GE BANCORP and its SPONSORS, who take pride in giving us the back of their hands. We peons only want a distraction. We do not want the rapture. But thanks to the hacks with their nonstop overwhelming biennial distraction the LORDS OF LAUSANNE create the sight of thousands piously ascending to their heaven, only for the whole heaven to come plummeting to earth when those who stage THE GAMES cannot pay off their debts. Happily the hacks seldom show us that outcome. The London festival is thirty months out and already it's a disaster zone.

And the irony is this typist is blasting the LORDS for shirking their duties. But we have that every two years as well, and that wan noise is drowned out by all the CRITICAL ACCLAIM.