of course, I blame George Bush

Nothing says anti-Americanism is on the rise like excluding baseball and softball from the Olympics. (OK, maybe some things do.) The International Olympic Committee, meeting in Singapore, reaffirmed their vote of seven months ago to remove these grand and noble sports from the Olympics in 2012.

Sure, some will tell you this happened because these sports require large outdoor venues, and I might concede that some blame goes to European athletes not being able to hit the curveball, but all of this was true when baseball and softball were voted in a couple of decades ago. No, you gotta look at the equation: Bush likes to talk up his (5%) ownership of the Texas Rangers baseball team, his dad played first base for Yale, and the US President is responsible for a downward spiral in global security, so, let’s, says the world, stick it to his “favorite” sport.

Meanwhile, everyone knows that W rides golf carts around his “ranch,” and, as a cowboy, he’s all hat and no cattle. So, almost as an audible, Nelson Muntz-like “ha ha,” the IOC will include the new sport of Reining in future games. Reining.

Fuckin’ Bush.