Olympic-Style Microdermabrasion

As another Olympic season closes, much is being made of the uniforms worn by Women's Beach Volleyball teams.

The official explanation is that the uniforms are designed to keep the sand out. (One does not want chafing in one's yin and yang.) This does not, however, explain why the men's teams continue to wear shorts-to-the-knee and tank tops.

Some of the more cynical among us suggest that the bikini's are simply to increase viewership, and thus brand recognition for the corporate sponsors. ("If you've bought a Coke in the last eighty years...") There may be some merit to this argument. A google search using the words "corporate sponsorship olympics" returned figures as high as $4 billion invested by companies hoping to be noticed by viewers.

A girl has to wonder if those sponsors had any influence on designing those uniforms. And if they did, that's just fine by this K9. The world tuned in and cheered for their teams and learned some things about each other.

Perhaps that was a $4 billion well spent.

Ever~~
Basia

Peggy Phlegm.

Once again, I've just got to say it: thank God for Olympic Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming.

She is truly the voice of sanity in a world gone mad. As you probably know, the World Health Organization recently estimated that tobacco will kill up to a billion people in the 21st century, 10 times as many as it killed in the 20th.

Ten times more. That's quite a few people.

I have to wonder if Peggy would have enjoyed the success she has if she were a smoker. Perhaps not. Perhaps she would have worked at a Dry Cleaners and made dear Kathleen's good sweaters smell funny. Perhaps all those posters lining dear Kathleen's bedroom walls would have featured a different skater, or perhaps there would be no posters at all.

Therefore, thank God for Peggy Fleming. Thank God for her resolve and persistence. And while you're at it, say a prayer for the one billion (read that again--it has a "b") people who will die of tobacco-related illness during the next ninety years . Let's hope the World Health Organization has their numbers wrong.

Ever~~

Basia