Steve Carell and John McCain? Those were the days...
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It's known as the McDonald's theory of war, but has nothing to do with hand-to-hand combat over a bacon and egg McMuffin. No country with a McDonald's outlet, the theory contends, has ever gone to war with another. The logic is thus: countries with middle classes large enough to sustain a McDonald's have reached a level of prosperity and global integration that makes warmongering risky and unpalatable to its people. The Russia-Georgia conflict has finally blown this theory out of the water. Thomas Friedman, who invented the theory in 1996, said people in McDonald's countries "don't like to fight wars. They like to wait in line for burgers." The Caucasus conflict shows it's quite possible to do both. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/06/russia.mcdonalds (h/t Kottke & Marginal Revolution)
"I realize the Michael Phelps stuff was meaningful, but a friend of mine brought up a good point: While it makes total sense that we have a competition to see who can swim from Point A to Point B in the shortest amount of time, it seems idiotic that we award medal for all the individual strokes. What is the value of the backstroke? Why do we care who can swims BACKWARDS the fastest? We certainly don’t have a competition to see who can run 400 meters in reverse. We don’t have a competition to see who is the fastest at crawling a marathon. It seems like part of Phelps’ dominance was a product of how that sport is designed. If there was a 100 meter hopping contest, I suspect Usain Bolt would have dominated that, too."
Not THAT football, THIS football:
because his adultery was 30 years ago, apparently.
but if he's always this ornery, i could learn to love joe biden as VP.
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So how insanely fast was Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's 9.69-second finish in Saturday's 100-meter dash? Kings beatwriter Sam Amick helped me put it in football terms. If 100 meters were broken down into 40-yard segments - what players run at the combine and at days - Bolt's time translates to 3.54 seconds. Put another way: Vernon Davis' 40 time in 2006 was 4.38 seconds. Over 100 meters, that translates to 11.98 seconds.
I appreciate all that is curious and strange. Good thing I live in New York City.
