Sports was featured last night as in the Sport Report. In what was a big surprise to some, but probably not to others, Alex Rodriguez, or The Rod, will be suspended from baseball for 400 years for using performance enhancing drugs.
Not to worry if you need to watch sports. The Winter Olympics are coming soon. This year the Games will be in Sochi, Russia from February 7 to 23, 2014, or if you are over there, they will be from 7-23 February 2014. Take a look at the official website using that link right up in first sentence. Lots of information and a really cool chart that shows which events will be held on which days. There's great color-coded icons for each sport, so it's easy to see on that chart which of your favorite sports is happening on which days. My favorite, Curling, is listed 6th on that chart. Never mind that the sports are in alphabetical order. I still think it's because Curling is so popular that it is near the top of the list. It looks like the USA Men's team will be meeting Norway for their first competition. Oh I hope the USA Men's Curling Team has great fashion designers working on their uniforms. Those Norwegian Men can intimidate you just by coming on the ice in their bold uniforms. So go look at the Winter Olympics website. I absolutely love the rainbow color theme used for the chart and sport icons.
You can also go over to the website and support your team. Right now, here's the Likes:
Russian Fed 344
Latvia 232
Lithuania 134
Canada 108
Ukraine 62
United States 60
Belarus 41
France 32
Kazakhstan 25
Japan 22
As we get closer to the Olympics, I'm sure those numbers will go up.
Delegate member and tennis great Billie Jean King did show up to discuss going to the Olympics as probably the most famous gay athlete. She said she won't protest, but if the media asks questions, she will give them answers.
Deborah Solomon was Stephen's guest last night. She has a book out now about Norman Rockwell - "American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell." Stephen likes Norman Rockwell's art because it is realistic. He can look at a painting and recognize it's a painting of a mailman. We got to see some of the more famous paintings of Norman Rockwell and we got to hear Stephen sound exactly like a cultured art critic. Deborah Solomon explained to Stephen that Norman Rockwell believed in equality, and tolerance and voted for JFK and LBJ. Their discussion was a little loud and almost confrontational at times which seems amazing, considering they were discussing Norman Rockwell.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Monday, September 9, 2013
What Would Reagan Do
The animal world is full of spies. There are many documented cases of creatures of all kinds spying on one country or another. I find it somewhat hard to believe, but if Stephen reported it, then it must be true.
That of course leads right into the situation with Syria. Barack Obama is getting all kinds of negative press about his decision to do something about Syria or his decision to do nothing about Syria or his decision to do anything in between nothing and something. You know who would have done something? Ronald Reagan, that's who.
Conservatives like Stephen know what Reagan would have done. He would have stood up to Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Never mind that he did nothing to Saddam Hussein when Saddam gassed his own troops and his own people. That was the old Reagan. The new Super Reagan is the man everyone means now. He is truly SuperReagan! Stephen had a historic photo of Reagan bringing about the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. It was inspiring.
Stephen put on a little show, not exactly a puppet show but a show with action figures. He ended it by saying in the best impersonation of Ronald Reagan, "Mr Skeletor, tear down your face."
In Tip/Wag tonight, Stephen applauded Iowa's decision to grant gun permits to the blind. And he applauded bigger pants. I would love to know the story behind this, but it has something to do with the pants hanging in his closet this morning. He loves the fit. It's like losing weight without having to even try.
Billie Jean King, a Living Legend, was Stephen's guest tonight. Incredible! One Living Legend interviewing another Living Legend. For those who are too young to remember, she played tennis and played it pretty darn good. Go look here at just the first three paragraphs!
But what most people remember about her is the Battle of the Sexes. Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs played tennis. Billie Jean King won. She was an inspiration for lots of people.
Even if you don't remember that or are just too young, you are in luck. Tomorrow on PBS, you can watch American Masters Billie Jean King. It's coming up on 40 years since that famous tennis match-up and coming up on the 70th birthday of Billie Jean King.
It's on your local PBS station on September 10 at 8:00 p.m. but check your local listings so that you don't tune in too late if you are in a different time zone!
That of course leads right into the situation with Syria. Barack Obama is getting all kinds of negative press about his decision to do something about Syria or his decision to do nothing about Syria or his decision to do anything in between nothing and something. You know who would have done something? Ronald Reagan, that's who.
Conservatives like Stephen know what Reagan would have done. He would have stood up to Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Never mind that he did nothing to Saddam Hussein when Saddam gassed his own troops and his own people. That was the old Reagan. The new Super Reagan is the man everyone means now. He is truly SuperReagan! Stephen had a historic photo of Reagan bringing about the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. It was inspiring.
Stephen put on a little show, not exactly a puppet show but a show with action figures. He ended it by saying in the best impersonation of Ronald Reagan, "Mr Skeletor, tear down your face."
In Tip/Wag tonight, Stephen applauded Iowa's decision to grant gun permits to the blind. And he applauded bigger pants. I would love to know the story behind this, but it has something to do with the pants hanging in his closet this morning. He loves the fit. It's like losing weight without having to even try.
Billie Jean King, a Living Legend, was Stephen's guest tonight. Incredible! One Living Legend interviewing another Living Legend. For those who are too young to remember, she played tennis and played it pretty darn good. Go look here at just the first three paragraphs!
But what most people remember about her is the Battle of the Sexes. Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs played tennis. Billie Jean King won. She was an inspiration for lots of people.
Even if you don't remember that or are just too young, you are in luck. Tomorrow on PBS, you can watch American Masters Billie Jean King. It's coming up on 40 years since that famous tennis match-up and coming up on the 70th birthday of Billie Jean King.
It's on your local PBS station on September 10 at 8:00 p.m. but check your local listings so that you don't tune in too late if you are in a different time zone!
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