The Olympics opening ceremony (or is it ceremonies?) was last night, and apparently viewers in the US had to wait for “prime time” to watch it on NBC (meaning a 4-hour delay out west). I say apparently, because I not only didn’t watch it, I really don’t give a shit about the Olympics. Still, many people do, and they were simply OUTRAGED about it. And the commercials. And the fatuous prattling of the idiotic “Today Show” crew.

At various points, they said Luxembourg was in “central Europe,” joked about how Djibouti kinda sounds like “yer booty,” and seemed surprised to learn that the US (or Estados Unidos) would be alphabetized under E for the Parade of Nations.

This is why I don’t watch live teevee once the lo-cal morning news is over.

For those who opted to live stream the event from anywhere other than NBC, though, were apparently treated to a wonderful display. So that’s good, I guess.

When I was a kid, the Olympics were a big deal to me. Probably due to the fact that back then there were only four channels to choose from (five when Channel 11 from Kingston was coming in – watched a lot of curling, back in the day – but you had to fiddle with the rabbit ears), and you had to wait for four years for an Olympics back then, instead of two. Plus we still had our Cold War villains (namely the godless Soviets and East Germans) to root against (unlike today, when the Republican presidential candidate and the Russian president are BFFs).

Ah, those were simpler times.

Now, though. Meh. Oh there might be a few things worth watching (beach volleyball comes to mind heat – sure didn’t have that back in ’64), and there’s a local kid on the Women’s basketball team so I’d like to see her do well. And of course there are three former Orangemen on the men’s team (one playing, two assistant coaching), so I’d like to see them do well (plus I’m still not quite over the ’72 gold medal game when the referees gave the Soviets three chances to score the winning basket).

But mostly I don’t really care.

Besides, I’m waiting for the deluge of talking head commentaries about how the Trump campaign has “turned the corner” now that Donnie has gotten on message and endorsed the flaming triad of douchery – Paul Ryan, John “if I had my way, Sarah Palin would be the incumbent VP running for Prez right now” McCain, and Kelly Ayotte.

It’s all gonna be rainbows and party unity from here on out. OK, well, probably not rainbows, ‘cuz that’s a gay thing and the GOP don’t go for that kinda shit (other than in public men’s rooms, of course).

trumputin