Quotes of note:

It’s harmless jingoism and harmless jingo-ism is the best kind of jingoism. Generally nobody dies.

The real problems come when you can’t separate “We beat you in swimming” with “We’re invading your country next week.”

Mmm, yes and no. Over the long haul, you’ll be faster at the surface swimming freestyle. There is more friction at the surface, but you are able to more efficiently use your arms. But off of the starting block or the wall, where you get to kick off, it’s unquestionably better to get in a really streamlined position to…

There is a technique to it that you train for, and it’s not that hard to go 5+ or even 10+ seconds in swimming without breathing. Ideally, at that competitive level, you’d probably take about three breaths in that race — one around 35-40 meters, another a few strokes out of the turn, and maybe one more with about 20…

Why don’t more swimmers do what Phelps just did? By the time you hit the wall you’re begging to breathe, which is why most of the other swimmers popped up to the surface like Goldfish looking for food after their kick off the wall.

What Phelps did has to be trained for. Most athletes performance would drop severely…

I’m sure he’ll be carefully groomed for a future in politics if he chooses. Although this photo set won’t help him, if you want to show off your body you’ve got to make the poses look natural like JFK used to. Like you’re just you know hanging out on the beach, on a boat or riding a horse shirtless through a mist.

What an interesting way to style your hair

I read the headline and thought this story would be about a delusional kid who thought he was a fox. Ummm...my brain is a weird and wacky place sometimes.

Have you seen young Tim Kaine?

The most embarrassing part of this story, other than the fact that he’s 26 and still going out to college bars, is that he was at THE WORST college bar in East Lansing.

I can totally see how that would happen. The floor is so sticky! Like if bar floors were football stadium turf, Rick’s would be Heinz Field.

I dated a girl who broke her foot at Rick’s the week before her graduation. That place, and coincidentally as it turned out her as well, is terrible.

Are you really arguing the guy who won 8 gold medals in one Olympics is overrated?

Well, it would be actually kind of refreshing to find out a Warriors player knew how to grab something by the throat.

I can’t wait to tune in to see if Bob Costas lost his eye.

Counterpoint: NO.

The opening ceremonies are fixed. Everyone knows Greece always wins.