Quote of the Day

"May I just observe that while Barack Obama relies on having well-written speeches to make his oratorical performances impressive, Bill Clinton is just relying on pure skills of awesomeness to make texts that are pretty disjointed on the page seem incredibly compelling." -- Matt Yglesias over at Think Progress

Quote of the Day

"Asians have different figures than people from the West, so that's what caused their suspicion. They (the media) shouldn't be suspicious."
-- Huang Yubin, head coach of the men's and women's Chinese gymnastics teams.

Us Westerners and our lying eyes. Perhaps it's a sad day when TPBP is so disillusioned with politics that it turns its critical eyes upon the non-sport of gymnastics, but I lived in Asia for three years, and feel pretty comfortable with Asian people's "figures". Additionally, being underemployed has allowed me to view far more of the women's gymnastics competition than I'm comfortable admitting in public. So, after seeing these girls on TV, and having taught literally 1000's of 16 year old Asian kids, I'm calling shenanigans.

Post Script: I fully expect reader 'pw' to provide a 500 word comment (including citations of course) as to why Westerners really are somehow biologically ill-equipped to judge the relative age of everyone on the Asian continent.