The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, part II and a General Update

I'm sure my regular readers (you know who you are!) are waiting in eager anticipation of my formal endorsement for President of the United States as well as other political races of local interest. They are on their way, so please stop harassing me about them.

Also, I got some overwhelmingly positive responses from my recent piece on the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad. I'll work on a second part installment, but after men's gymnastics, there has been little to comment on. We are finally kicking some international ass. Well, the unfortunate thing is that the US has kicked a little too much international ass of late, but at least this recent bout of ass kicking has multilateral support (well, maybe support isn't the right word because the rest of the world was trying to stop of from taking over the medal ceremonies, but you get the idea).

I will say that those Chinese keep one-upping us. When I got home last night, I saw the US win four medals (three gold and one silver over the course of three races), then we took a gold medal in women's gymnastics, and I figured that we would finally be up on top. No such luck. The pesky Chinese (yes, I've called 1.3 billion people pesky) are still managing to have one more gold than we do. Sure, we may be atop the leaderboard when it comes to total medals, but I think the Simpson's guide to Olympic ratings is right: beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze. Gold is all that matters.

I generally try not to be a chest thumping American (although I always do my best to defend the US from what I perceive as unjust and non-sensical criticisms) but there is just something about the Olympics that brings out that God-Bless-the-USA attitude in me.

I will say that I think the US will finally pull ahead of the Chinese once the athletics competitions begin, but the Chinese long distance women's team is a force to be reckoned with. I have confidence though.