Today we talk about that disgraced Greek double-process triple-jumper, where the Guy Earle case stands, and Greenpeace comparing themselves to the civil rights movement — and the larger issue that MLK and Gandhi legitimized breaking the law for “a good cause” in the minds of ordinary people.
Stuff I thought of on the subway home:
While the Golden Dawn party may be “fascist,” Hitler hosting the 1936 Games obviously didn’t “violate the Olympic spirit.”
And actually, contra Coren, maybe the one thing blacks and gays do have in common is the chains…
