Lochte - oops

As far as I can see, the biggest controversy coming out of the 2012 Olympics has got to be anything and everything dealing with Ryan Lochte.  While you would like to put a positive spin on what he and his family are saying and doing, they are up against Michael Phelps who is definetly the kind of ambassador America wants to send to the Olympics.  Phelps is well spoken, sounding educated and he shakes the hands of his team members even when he comes in second, Lochte doesn't.  The fact that Lochte needs to be told not to wear his grill on to the podium is an embarrasment.  He doesn't seem to understand the games are not held to show the world he is 'cool.'  I've seen him interviews and he can not help he sounds like Rocky Balboa, but he needs to learn to conjugate his verbs when speaking in public.  He needs to say "Michael Phelps and I are," not Michael Phelps and I is."  One can only wonder if he wants to sound stupid on purpose; maybe that's part of the 'cool' thing.

Do a search on his name, pull of the article and start reading, even those most positive mention the negative aspects of his personality.  His mother doesn't help.  When I read in a sports headline that she had said his schedule only allows for him to have one night stands I was flabbergasted.  She's dumb as a box of bricks and perhaps the apple didn't fall far from the tree.  Evidently he's been trying to backtrack from that comment, his lifestyle up until a few days ago will limit just how far he can go.  Maybe what he really needs to do is pop his grill in his mouth and grin because maybe he wants to be remembered as a douchebag. 

Congrats to Michael Phelps

Yesterday and American swimmer became the most decorated Olympian of all time, of course, everybody knows who Michael Phelps is and they have for years.  I remember back when a photo of him surfaced taking a hit from a bong and the out cry was immense - from people who sit around with self-righteous sticks stuck up their asses.  They did not want a human being representing the United States, they wanted a robot, some one who aspired to demonstrate the qualities they choose.  I suppose they believe they are striving towards perfection when in reality they want to strangle to death any aspect which imparts individualism.  They want a Stepford populated not just with perfect wives, but with perfect husbands and perfect children not realizing the only thing in their future is failure.  "Nature always wins out," Jeff Goldblum said that in Jurassic Park. You can take the human out of nature but you can't take the nature out of human, that's me.

Here's a hearty congratulations to Mr. Phelps for becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time in spite of smoking a little pot.  It's also a finger shake at all those boo hissers - don't you just love being wrong.