PolarLava::Blog

It's good to see that the IOC has their head in the sand much like the RIAA and MPAA.  They're preventing blogging for nearly all athletes, with only a few exceptions.  Always good to see another establishment trying to prevent progress.  God knows you can't hear an athlete's story through unsanctioned channels.  Nope.  Wouldn't want to hear it from the horses mouth.  It might just end up being a very truthful and frank assessment of their experience.  Good to see that the IOC is playing the part of the horse's ass!

I've been going to mention this for a while, but had put it off because I hadn't gotten one myself!  So 3 weeks ago I finally tracked down where to find one, and have been wearing it ever since.  What is it?  It's a WearYellow LiveStrong wristband.  Proceeds from these go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation and support people living with cancer.  The're only a buck ($1.00) and relatively unobtrusive once you get used to wearing it.  There's a seller locator on the WearYellow LiveStrong site, but I'll save you the trouble.  The most widely available location where you can get these are at Foot Locker stores.  So go now and do something good for those less fortunate than you!

Humiliated, Angry, Ashamed, Brown. is written by Ian Spiers and describes his recent encounter with some agents from the Department of Homeland Security.  Nice.  And I suppose out of all the people around this area with cameras they just happened to single him out for extra scrutiny.  Right.

On a somewhat related note, you better watch what you are reading these days.  Apparently being in possession of "inappropriate" reading material can cause you to be singled out and have it confiscated.

This my fellow Americans is the way in which the wonderous USA Patriot Act is making us all safer from terrorists.  It's good to see that the Constitution isn't being trampled on in any way.  Well, except some of the silliness like that IV Amendment!  God save us for ourselves or at least our government!

In the best news that has come out of NASA in some time, they've finally agreed to consider saving the Hubble Space Telescope with a robotic mission.  It's about time that somebody came to their senses and did the right thing.  Hubble has been, and now will continue to be the premier space research platform for the astronomy community.

8-11-2004
And now meet Dextre, the leading candidate to go and do the work.

I just read this article on Yahoo.  And the best I can say about it is that Stephen H. Galton needs to "get a life"!  I certainly don't have any love for lawyers of your ilk, but I do understand your need to protect your clients.  That's fine, but just because you get bagged on in a public forum and called a shyster is no reason start suing people.  Then again I guess it is if you're a bottom feeder!  You appear to be old enough to know the old adage "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me".  I'm sure your mother would be very proud of you today.  Nice job spunky.