Call me a sceptic, but I just don’t see how beach volleyball is drastically different than, uh, volleyball. So – we’re going to play volleyball, but.. wait for it.. in SAND! Perhaps this could be expanded on. How about beach soccer, beach wrestling, and beach diving. I’m not ignorant, I “get it” – the Olympics need to stay current with the times, but I still do not by any means agree that beach volleyball qualifies as a sport of the Olympians.

I think there is probably a reason for Beach Volleyball being accepted though. Olympic judges are crusty old men and women, and crusty old men and women like staring at tanned young men and women. Freud was right – the penis and the vagina truly are the apples of humanity’s collective eye. Personally, I think they should still have Tug of War included:

Fun Facts:
- Ice Hockey was a Summer Olympic event in 1920.
- “Powerboat Racing” was an Olympic Sport, seemingly only participated in by Britain and France, and thus the only medals won in the competition were Gold.

I believe it was Jared Diamond who, in “Guns, Germs, and Steel” remarked that the island people who live the hard life are, due to natural selection, probably genetically superior when compared to the rest of us. However, we’ve been far too successful in making our lives easy and subsequently in multiplying like cockroaches, but, McDonald’s, Philip Morris, and men such as Peter Popoff are courageously trying to cull the weak.

I’m not sure that I really feel sorry for people who are stupid enough to spend thousands of dollars on packets of water sold on an infomercial:

Honestly, does it make any difference if poor people can afford to buy fewer packages of potato chip flavoured pork rinds or KFC value meals? My hat goes off to you, Mr. Popoff, drive that Porsche with pride, you truly earned it while bettering humanity.