View From the Bushes

As anyone who knows me can attest to, my tastes are very refined. Sophisticated, urbane, cosmopolitan, intellectual and labyrinthine are the adjectives most often used to describe me. So when it comes to sports only one has the sophistication, the elegance and the beauty to match my exacting aesthetics, cycling. On Saturday the most popular yearly sporting event will begin anew, the Tour De France!!

Okay the above was mostly crap. I like cycling because it's one of the few sports that a 5'7" skinny guy has an outside chance of being any good at. This is a peculiar fascination of mine certainly there are people who share my enthusiasm but as a percentage of the U.S. population we rank somewhere below cricket enthusiast and just above curling enthusiasts, however as I mentioned above the Tour ranks only behind the Olympics and the World Cup in terms of popularity and those two are only held every four years, so while I may be in the minority here I'm sure that there are plenty of elderly Frenchman who share my passion.

Shortly after I enabled comments I picked up a heckler who seemed to delight in making disparging comments on a daily basis. You might have noticed that yesterday there was still the usual one comment, but it was from someone with nice things to say. Who would have thunk it! And there was no sign of the heckler. Perhaps he grew tired of picking on such an easy target. Or perhaps it was his day off. We'll just have to see what happens today. In any event watch the Tour!