Olympics

A few notes about the Olympics:

1. I love the Olympics.
2. I've long thought NBC coverage of the Olympics was crappy. Drama over sport and only showing events dominated by Americans or attractive, white non-Americans.
3. nbcolympics.com is actually pretty good. You can watch a broad cross section of events, many with no commentary or only technical commentary. (No "Ra-Ra Go USA!" or "Jim-Bob came back from adversity to be here today.")
   
4. nbcolympics.com commercial selection sucks. I've seen the trailer for Tropic Thunder literally at least 50 times in the past week. It was uninteresting the first time around. I vow to die never having seen that movie.
5. Women's High Jump has replaced women's Beach Volleyball as my my favorite Olympic event of all time. Sorry, Misty!
   

BJ and Warren

I met BJ Lawson when I got involved in the Ron Paul campaign. BJ was the Triangle Ron Paul Meetup organizer and decided he felt so strongly about responsible government that he'd run for Congress. I worked on BJ's campaign for the last couple months before I moved to Seattle and got to know him as a smart, hard working and very determined man. You can check out his campaign at lawsonforcongress.com.

I've long intended to write about his campaign but fell out of the habit of blogging regularly. The thing that gave me the final push today was learning that BJ's campaign is sponsoring the premier of a new documentary about the impending financial disaster of our national debt, I.O.U.S.A. The best part is that after the showing there will be a discussion with an A-list panel including my personal hero, Warren Buffett. Warren is to clean business what BJ and Ron Paul are to clean government. The world would be a richer place in every sense of the word if there were more people like these three.

Sadly I won't be in Raleigh on the 21st but if you are, be sure to check out the premier and meet at least two really good people.