Unforced Errors

Liberals are always facile with language. A while ago there used to be something called a "Demolition Derby" where an olio of old cars careened around a large arena slamming into each other (usually backwards to save their radiators and engines from crippling damage.) The last one capable of moving was the winner. This brings us to Hellary Clinton ... who appears to be the last old auto running after a career of careening around leaving smoking scandals in her wake. (We know most of them by heart.)

Now I'm convinced that pretty much all of her eluded scandals were conscious ... she knew exactly what she was doing ... accidentally on purpose if you will.

So back to liberal word smithing. What is the new phrase that libs have come up with to describe all these Hellary scandals? Right from the Wimbledon center court ... they call them "unforced errors." In other words, this erudite tennis semantic absolves Hellary from evil intent in one fell swoop. Whitewater, travelgate, Benghazi, filegate, the e-mail server, etc., etc., etc. were all caused by some exogenous event well beyond her control ... like slipping on a wet spot on the tennis court while trying to return a serve.

You, dear reader, now understand the purpose of this new excuse phrasing. You will likely hear it frequently this coming week at the Democrat Philadelphia convention. The talking point memo has gone out.

And I guess I've mixed enough metaphors for this blog post, so I'll stop and not commit any more unforced errors..

Sports Betting

Anyone who wagers large amounts of money of the outcome of a sporting event is clearly foolish. This is because humans are involved ... and, has been repeatedly shown, humans can be influenced through rewards or threats to alter ... sometimes ever so subtly ... their performance to change the outcome of a game. If anyone has ever watched a jai alai "game," one can easily understand this indictment. Perhaps this is why fontons are rapidly disappearing in America. Now a game similar to jai alai, that previously had been unsullied, tennis, has been implicated ... see: BBC News.

One can readily extend this warning to the sport of kings, horse racing. Over the years numerous clever ways have been revealed as to how these animals have been tweaked to improve or degrade their performance ... see: Vice Story.

So we see that trying to make major money from how humans or even animals perform in the sports arena is a fool's errand ... no matter how many safeguards are in place. That is, of course, unless you are one of the fixers.