Political anti-doping
Fair play. That's what we all expect from gamers, particularly this week during the Olympic games. Certainly, the strange case of Greek athletes failing to show up for their anti-doping tests did cast the shadow of a doubt over the games. We need to wait now a few more days until the proper authorities run their investigations and procedures.
rIf politics is a game or not, well, that depends on your definitions. But it does indeed have plenty of elements in common, goals, rules, winner, losers, and specially the fact that everybody expects transparency and fairness. You may know, or not, that a referendum was held this weekend in Venezuela, a recall on the President Chavez (certainly quite a character). Both the Carter Center and the OEA were observers of the whole process and certified the results of the referendum.
rI wake up every morning and I read. Not the physical newspaper, but rather a selection of blogs and online newsplaces, including the BBC, Le Monde, CNN, The New York Times, LA Times, Liberation (mainly I check the headlines and, if tempted, I click) and, sometimes, the casual Argentinian or Spaniard newspaper. The whole process usually takes about half an hour. This morning I stayed home, working on my GDC Europe presentation, but I was a bit surprised about my news reading. There was the piece of news in Le Monde (top story of their website) that I could not easily find anywhere else in the other major media that I read (the info may be buried deep into some links, many clicks away from being real news). It states that the US State Department contested today the results of the Venezuelan referendum. Yes, you read it here first: the same goverment that was "elected" in Florida in 2000, is arrogant enough to embarass itself by contesting the results of an election in another country (supervised, by the way, by a former US President). The rules of the games are clear, and cheaters cannot be judges. It would be funny, but I am pretty sure that the State Department is deadly serious about it. Of course, it is good to see that most of the major online media (particularly those who update themselves regularly) helped to prevent the embarassment to prevail. One can only imagine why the French would put that story as top news in Le Monde. Probably because they (we) are mean, arrogant and evil. And maybe also to remind us who is running this world of us.
rEnough said. I will check the Olympics now. I wonder if narc dealers are the ones in charge of the anti-doping tests. I wouldn't be surprised at all.
rIf politics is a game or not, well, that depends on your definitions. But it does indeed have plenty of elements in common, goals, rules, winner, losers, and specially the fact that everybody expects transparency and fairness. You may know, or not, that a referendum was held this weekend in Venezuela, a recall on the President Chavez (certainly quite a character). Both the Carter Center and the OEA were observers of the whole process and certified the results of the referendum.
rI wake up every morning and I read. Not the physical newspaper, but rather a selection of blogs and online newsplaces, including the BBC, Le Monde, CNN, The New York Times, LA Times, Liberation (mainly I check the headlines and, if tempted, I click) and, sometimes, the casual Argentinian or Spaniard newspaper. The whole process usually takes about half an hour. This morning I stayed home, working on my GDC Europe presentation, but I was a bit surprised about my news reading. There was the piece of news in Le Monde (top story of their website) that I could not easily find anywhere else in the other major media that I read (the info may be buried deep into some links, many clicks away from being real news). It states that the US State Department contested today the results of the Venezuelan referendum. Yes, you read it here first: the same goverment that was "elected" in Florida in 2000, is arrogant enough to embarass itself by contesting the results of an election in another country (supervised, by the way, by a former US President). The rules of the games are clear, and cheaters cannot be judges. It would be funny, but I am pretty sure that the State Department is deadly serious about it. Of course, it is good to see that most of the major online media (particularly those who update themselves regularly) helped to prevent the embarassment to prevail. One can only imagine why the French would put that story as top news in Le Monde. Probably because they (we) are mean, arrogant and evil. And maybe also to remind us who is running this world of us.
rEnough said. I will check the Olympics now. I wonder if narc dealers are the ones in charge of the anti-doping tests. I wouldn't be surprised at all.
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