Howard’s Blog

Men’s Hockey is finally underway – I caught a bit of the game between the Czechs and Germany. The Czechs have always played a kind of hockey that Canada just doesn’t seem to be able to cope with. In this game, the referee was Canadian. A German player fell while trying to steal Jaromir Jagr’s stick. The referee promptly gave Jagr 2 minutes for hooking. Shortly after getting out of the penalty box, he was almost decapitated by a German player – who fell while trying to kill Jagr. The referee promptly gave Jagr 2 minutes for interference. Did I mention that Canada has always had problems playing the Czechs?
2-Man Luge is maybe the only Olympic sport in which you can actually compete while unconcious. A Ukranian proved it today after their sled smashed into the wooden railing at the top of the last curve.
In other ‘almost-sporting’ news, the summer Olympic organisers for 2008 are being asked by the winter Olympic commitee to include competitive Ballet as a trial event, in an attempt to give figure skating the appearance of being a sport.

Just in case someone in the world still thought he was ‘ok’, Dick Cheney decided to enlighten them by shooting a freind in the face with a shotgun. You just can’t make this stuff up. True to form the Whitehouse has issued statements to the effect that the victim was at least partially to blame. Sure. I can see that. It reminds me of a case in Nova Scotia many years ago where a canoeist was shot by a hunter. Red canoe. The hunter claimed afterward that he had mistaken the canoeist for a deer, to which the Mountie allegedly replied ‘Even if there was such a thing as a fire-engine red deer, it would still be illegal to shoot it while it was swimming‘.
In other news, Figure Skating is not, I repeat not, a sport. Never was.

I thought this was kinda neat – but more importantly, Karos thought this was kinda neat, so here goes

Number 4 is scary, but true.

Last week a woman walked into a mail processing center in California where she once was employed, and shot 5 people to death. No-one could claim that this brand of insanity is only available in America, but I would be willing to bet that the following headline on the CNN website would only be necessary in the States:

Official: Shooter had ‘psychological problems’

You don’t say.