Second Christmas Facing Challenges.

I love sports and so it goes without saying that tha Olympics are usually a fun time for me...like a second Christmas.  But this year in what I consider a bizarro world I am not getting my full Olympic fix.  I am left craving the twists and turns of the luge, bobsled, and skeleton.  Starving for the cut of steel on ice and hoping that Norway could at least mount something of a challenge...yes I know, I giggled too when I wrote that they should mount something, I decided to try and watch some of the Canada-Norway game on the computer...a F*****g laptop of all things.  Well may I say that my anger just seemed to escalate from that point on and I was left cursing innumurable masses of people over the injustice. 

My first beef was with the Canadian government...the easiest of targets...for investing billions...yes with a B, into the Olympics but failing to realize that because CTV had won the broadcast rights...a company that is mounting a challenge to broadcasting laws in this country because they are not seeing big enough profits, not everyone can get to see these Olympics.  I have CBC and am paying indirectly for it I am sure, and as a result of not having a cable package I am unable to see the games without going through the absolute terror I know as online anything.

My next round of cussing was directed at CTV and it's bastard sister TSN.  They have always been infantile in their coverage of anything, but the steps one has to follow to watch a game on a lesser piece of electronic alzheimer's enabler are paramount to needles in ones testicles...trust me on this one.  It's not bad enough that the screen is covered with just enough shit to keep an ADHA child sitting still, but the need to download programs are many as well.  The real kicker is that the piece of crap alzheimers enabler didn't seem to want that program or at least didn't wish to make it accessible, and therefore rendering it useless.  On top of that when I tried to get highlights this morning I could find anything but still shots of hockey players in what appeared to be a moving game that I could have sworn we had the technology to exhibit.

Well I resigned myself to the bunk with my copies of Darwin's "Origins", and Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" in a underfunded attempt to see where the f**k mankind went wrong in his evolution both physically and culturally.  I may be in over my head but what the f**k...I'll Take a crack at it.