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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But then he drew the audience's attention to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. in the early 1960s - those same years leading up to Loving v. Virginia - on issues such as voting rights, employment discrimination and education.
Er, is he aware that gay people already have the vote?
Because I see his point, but I'm really not sure what other issues he thinks are in line ahead of marriage on the gay rights front.
That always bugs me. I mean, not to take a THING away from Phelps or any other swimmer, but you are up for a whole lot of medals there. There are plenty of sports where you've got just one shot. I'm sure if you had, say, ten individual decathlon medals along with the "all around" we have now Spitz's record could have been broken that way. Is it even possible for a non-swimmer to get that many medals in one Olympics? I suppose a male gymnast could.
Juliana and I were talking about this last night. A male gymnast could get 8 medals but I think it would be harder to be competitive in all six different apparatus than the events that Phelps swims in (having no idea what these are).
What surprised me looking at the medals is how many there are in certain categories due to divisions and classes (weightlifting, boxing, wrestling, etc.). Cuba has 24 medals, but 14 are in boxing (8) and judo (6).
I took the top 12 in each ranking (total and golds), the only difference being Cuba on one list and The Netherlands on the other.
We might be 13th in "real" golds, but in your Olympics we have 5--I mean, all of ours are objective sports. Take that, neighbours!
I'm still way more impressed with Eric Heiden's five gold medals, than I am with Phelps. He won every speed skating event, from 500m to 10,000m. That's kind of like Usain Bolt winning the 100m sprint, and also a 5K run.
Well, ideally I would have done every country, but I wasn't that bored.
ETA: I just checked, Jamaica has 6 golds.
I just checked, Jamaica has 6 golds.
I am out of touch with how much we rock.
Heiden was a beast. Manliest thighs ever.
I am out of touch with how much we rock.
So you don't get to marry the Jamaican relay team?
I felt kinda' sorry for Beth Heiden. She went early in one event and set a world record. But it turned out to not be good enough to get a medal.
There's some overlap between people who have conservative interpretations of Christianity who want to, you know, live like Christ, help the poor, steward the earth, blah blah blah, and the more liberal side of things. Which, after all the polarizing, is perhaps our only hope for humanity.
MWAH! If you were here, Plei, I'd kiss you for this because it's so completely true.