Posted 8:14 PM by Gene

The more I think of what that buffoon Thompson of Mickey D said the angrier I get. We have mentioned Berlin and Munich, but let us not forget the anti-Semite AVERY BRANDAGE; the East German hermaphrodites; the show of bad sportsmanship parading as moral courage in the raised fists on the Mexico City podium; the finish of the '72 men's basketball final; the champion Carl Lewis; the champion Ben Johnson; the champion Marion Jones; Tonya and Nancy at Lillehammer; the media posse convicting Richard Jewell of the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta; the NHL players trashing the dorms at Nagano; the figure-skating fiasco at Salt Lake. Nor should we forget also the champions who became asses to the world, like Mark Spitz and Bruce Jenner. Nor should we forget the very costly "herd of white elephants" these proud festivals have left behind in practically every city starting with Montréal, reaching an Olympic-flaming apotheosis in Beijing -- and marching to London and beyond. You would think a businessman might realize that. Of course not; he runs MICKEY D -- the closest thing corporate America has to a self-sustaining government employment agency. If this blithering idiot Thompson wants to liken his company to THE GAMES, the more the merrier.

How many months left on YOUR vacation, Don?