>Now here is a weird one. The Dutch four man bobsled team has withdrawn from the Olympics, before the event. Reason: the driver is too scared to take the sled down the course. This sounds like The Onion, doesn't it? Evidently it's for real, though ---
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/02/25/olympics.bobsled.driver.quits/index.html?hpt=C1That took a lot of guts. Good for him. Sometimes it takes more courage to be right than to be "brave".
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
