The deep flaws in the Wizards have now been totally revealed by the team's third successive defeat at the hands of LeBron James.
The NBA is a double standard league. There was no reason to kick Songaila out of the game but they did, insuring that Cleveland would win.
But the Wizards have ended their season in ignominy.
John McCain is setting a remarkable record: he is the major party Presidential nominee with the skimpiest policy platform since Warren Harding or perhaps Calvin Coolidge. He's making George Bush's year 2000 policy work look encyclopedic by comparison.
Because it's my area, I've searched his campaign's web site for his view relating to the information and communications technology sector of the economy, about one-sixth of the whole American economy.
So Arenas loses another game for Wiz in his normal style: he leaves his man wide open for critical shot and he misses his own critical shot. I'm sure he's injured, but (1) why is he playing? and (2) he does this when he's healthy too. He surely is the dead albatross for this team, and when they re-sign him they condemn themselves to mediocrity for years, at least until he demands a trade.
The Nationals are so player-starved that they are giving baseball in their new, ugly stadium a bad name.
And the Redskins are managed, in terms of people and system, in a way that makes every other team delighted to laugh at. Three receivers for top three draft choices, when they had one spot to fill? It's a farce.
I blame the Administration. It has cast a pall of irrationality across the whole city.
That's what all sports fans say. The top 8 college basketball teams in the tournament are in the Elite Eight.
We want elite doctors to treat us and elite judges to reason clearly and we should want the best of our best to lead our government.
But we don't want our national leaders not to understand us, not to "get" the core of the American Dream: the urge and opportunity to improve one's own life and the lives of the next generation.
I think Obama gets us. Read his words:
It's hard for me to figure that out, given that I was raised with far fewer advantages than any of my two remaining opponents. That my work started off on the streets of Chicago as a community organizer, that my wife, Michelle, grew up in that same neighborhood whose parents never went to college... that we financed all our education on student loans, that I was raised in a setting with my grandparents who grew up in small-town Kansas where, you know, the dinner table would have been familiar to anyone here in Indiana. A lot of pot roasts and potatoes and jello molds... People know me. People who've worked with me know that the reason I'm in this race is that my life history and my professional history working as a community organizer, as a civil rights lawyer, as a legislator, is to fight so people can take those same ladders of opportunity that I was able to take as a kid, and right now, this country is not providing those same ladders. That's why I'm in this race.
