the story is the glory and bees are still a problem

Some great new names and some older legends are having a big week in Omaha and Oregon.

The pixel picture is of Jordan Hasay and it has to be fake because that 16 year old junior in High School can not possibly be in the finals of an US Olympic Track and Field event....it can't be true...there has to be trick photography, like the famous baseball non-catch that's been floating around the Internet......it can't be real...but then again....her ponytail seems real enough.

She doesn't have a chance to finish in the top three but the fact that she's in the final of the women's 1500 meter is why the glory is in the story....

IT'S NOT ABOUT WINNING....but of course there will be people screaming and yelling during the Olympics and bitching and moaning that we didn't win enough Gold medals and athletes will walk away thinking they disappointed.....but the glory is in the story and the story has many many participants and the winner always seems to be the only one we care about.

Of course we have a lot of those type on our team but we also have tremendous sub stories....stories that would make you cry if you paid attention.

From the 16 year old in Oregon to a 41 year old mom in Omaha.....the glory is in the story and Dara Torres might be the most incredible story to emerge from the Olympic trials....

She just made her 50th Olympic team........or is it the fifth? Whatever it is she is incredible.

Amanda Beard is back on the team and Playboy is really happy about that.

Kara Goucher has made a name for herself in long distance running....which gives us a DARA AND a KARA on the team.

Jeremy Wariner finished second in the 400 meters but that's just going to piss him off and make him faster in the Olympics. It's one of the events that the United States will sweep.

And then there's Michael Phelps. Seriously that guy is from Atlantis. I think he speaks Dolphin and I have nothing to say except.......wow.

And then the we get to the BEEs.....COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER is still an unsolved problem and while I love the Olympics....I really love pollination more....and without one there is no other.....and I mean NO OTHER.....NOTHING....NADA...ZIP....

Please write your congressman and express your thoughts on the government finding an answer to CCD....and finding it sooner than later would be advantageous to the health of the human species.

AND THEN AFTER YOU CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN, AND OR SENATOR....THEN TUNE IN TO THE UNITED STATES OLYMPIC TRIALS.....TWO MORE DAYS AND THEN OFF TO CHINA.

Which by the way I hear they've solved all of their smog and pollination problems.

Isn't that nice.

Michael Timothy McAlevey