Saturday, August 28, 2004

In Hamm's Way It would help Paul Hamm's effort to retain his Olympic all-around gymastics gold medal if he didn't have that silly cartoon munchkin helium voice. For greater credibility, Hamm needs to lip-synch all of his future interviews to someone with what Molly Ivins calls "a four-balls voice," preferably somebody like legendary voice actor Ken Nordine -- or even better, the governor of California.  Hamm is in the wrong sport to be sounding like a Girlie Man. There's always the chance that the Hamm incident will touch off an international firestorm that eclipses Iraq.  Nothing in the history of the Olympics suggests that they're beyond politics.  To paraphrase von Clausewitz, sports are war by other means. 10:24:17 AM