Thursday, February 25, 2010

Is That a Target on Your Back?

And what's with this Olympics winter sport in which the contestants ski a quarter-mile or so, stop, drop to the ground, and fire their rifle at a target, then arise to ski another quarter-mile, drop to shoot, repeating this cycle over and over? Is this insane? Why do we issue rifles to a group of athletes who don't speak one another's language, and who are hyperexcited in heated, angry competition with one another? Jeez, we don't arm even school-crossing guards.

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