Whoa. Poor Bernie Mac.

Jesse, I meant, the only reason you'd want to do that would be to entertain kids. I mean, I buy cream for the ice cream maker instead of just ice cream. Is that different?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that I've ever had actual homemade ice cream, so I can't tell if it's worthwhile.

It is good. But mainly because I do weird flavors. Pluot being my fave. Served with a ginger snap. nom nom nom.

I might make just sweet cream next. No vanilla. Just yummy cream.

Tom Daley is adorable.

I missed the tribute to Jim McKay, which bums me out monumentally. I made it as far as the torch lighting and it was like the minute that sucker went up, I passed out.

It was way spectacular, but I still put my vote in for the archer in Barcelona and for the Winter Olympics, which one was it that had the ski jumper light the torch?

And for sheer sentimental value, my favorite is still Muhammed Ali in Atlanta.

::goes to look for news stories on Bernie Mac::

That sucks.

Also, watching the trampoline stuff is fun! BOING!

And, the whole "Women's gymnastics is horrible! They're just little girls!" thing has started again: [link]

Sure, there are abuses in gymnastics. But just looking at pictures of gymnasts from the past few years and gymnasts from the eighties and early nineties, I'd bet anything that the rates of anorexia have gone way down. The description in that article of gymnasts looking like prepubescent boys from the neck down is just weird -- most gymnasts tend to be compact and muscular.

And he cites palm rips as an "injury"? Seriously? That's about the same level of injury as a skinned knee. You stick some tape on it and keep going. (He also says palm rips from the rings, which is a men's event, leading me to believe that he doesn't really know much about gymnastics.) Also, up until the quote at the end from Dominique Moceanu, every single incident he talks about is one mentioned in "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes," which was published around 1996. Some actual news in a newspaper, please?

WTF?

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(08-09) 07:03 PDT Beijing -- An American relative of a U.S. Olympic volleyball coach was stabbed to death Saturday and his two companions were wounded before their Chinese assailant leapt to his own death off the 13th-century Drum Tower just north of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

The apparently random attack occurred at 12:20 p.m. on the first full day of competition at the 29th Olympic Games in the ancient capital, the day after the spectacular Opening Ceremonies welcoming the world into China.

The assailant reportedly sprung at two relatives of a coach on the men's indoor team and their Chinese tour guide on the second floor of the tower. The man, identified by the official Xinhua News Agency as Tang Yongming, 47, of the eastern city of Hangzhou, stabbed the three and then jumped about 130 feet to the ground as tourists watched.

Yeah, that's weird. I heard this morning that attacks on foreigners in China are very rare.

Stephanie! Matilda is rummaging through the latest box of clothes picking out an ensemble for games at megan's house.

I just posted in Bitches about that exact subject. I hope she has fun. It turns out that I had been given lots of cool weather clothes in those sizes that Ellie never wore more than once or twice, if at all, so there should be a lot of options in there.