Probably almost no posting here for the next two weeks, not that you’ll miss it. I wouldn’t dream of sullying these pristine pages with stuff like this.

If you’re needing political stuff though, I highly recommend this.

If you’re a Doors fan, you might have been surprised to learn that the surviving members of the band have been in a legal dispute against each other–specifically Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger versus John Densmore. As it turns out, the former two had been on tour as The Doors. Technically they couldn’t use the name unless all three were in it, so the official title of the group was The Doors of the 21st Century. Hmmm.

In any event, a California court has ruled that Manzarek and Krieger owe money from their tour, approximately $5 million, to Densmore as well as Jim Morrison’s father and the parents of Morrison’s wife Pamela Courson. Manzarek and Krieger’s appeal was just turned down by the California Supreme Court.

Does anyone else find it strange that Jim Morrison’s father is still alive?

I remember talking with Galley Friend and Women’s Soccer Phenom H.W. about the Hope Solo mess while the U.S. women’s team was getting crushed by Brazil a couple years ago. H.W. patiently explained to me that Coach Ryan’s decision to pull Solo in favor of Briana Scurry was a judgment call, but that Solo’s complaining about it in the press was a worse sin.

Well, the U.S. team just spanked the Brazilians in a re-match. The key difference was having Hope Solo in goal. You would think that women’s sports would learn something about professionalism from this: The most offensive aspect of the Solo controversy was that the players on the U.S. voted not to let her play in the next game. Because you, now, sports teams are democracies. There’s a deep lesson about professionalism in all of this. (At the time, Czabe had a great email about the entire affair.)

My fear, however, is that some other lesson will be learned. The team will take away how important conflict resolution skills are, or forgiveness is, or some other crap.

As Czabe puts it, “Hey Greg Ryan? How does my ass taste now?”

I wrote a tiny bit about Daniel Snyder taking over Washington’s only semi-respectable sports talk station before, but I’ve now blown that out a bit.

The takeaway: Snyder runs his radio empire the way he runs the Redskins, and with similar results.

Variety reports that the current financial climate has had an impact on Broadway. Writes Gordon Cox, “Producers report some investors would now rather hold onto their money rather than pony up for a risky Rialto show, and many worry that the usual September downturn in ticket sales will be particularly brutal this year.”

Sadly, one of the shows to be cancelled is Godspell. Damn this economy!

I don’t want to look like I’m down on Michael Phelps because I’m not–he’s great and his endorsement deal with Frosted Flakes makes me like him even more. But in a certain way, Usain Bolt’s performance is even more impressive.

Bolt shattered the world record in the 100M, running it in 9.69. The last 10M he was so far ahead that he dropped his arms and started looking off to his right. I’ve never seen anything like it. He might have 9.50 in him.

Then tonight Bolt won the 200M by breaking Michael Johnson’s record, which was once thought to be unbeatable. Bolt finished in 19.30 and I haven’t seen the 100M split, but I’d be surprised if he didn’t run one of those pieces under 9.20.

And what’s really crazy is that we have no idea how Bolt might run the 400M. He’s only 22. And because of his build he could be a singularity in the sport–a dominant big man. Bolt isn’t going to get 8 medals, but I think he’s the more dominant athlete and my intuition is that he’s the only person who’s going to challenge his records in the medium-term future. He’s going to places that no one thought possible, changing the perceptions of how those two distances can be run.

And one other thing: Bolt’s the first athlete I’ve seen at these Games who looks like he’s actually having fun. Lots of it. Every minute. He’s such a joy to watch after sitting through all of the tough-guy swimmers and grimly determined gymnasts. He actually looks like he’s thrilled to have all of us along for the amazing ride he’s on.

That’s pretty great.

That’s Leryn Franco, who competed in her second Olympics today, throwing the javelin for Paraguay. She finished 51st, just a spot or two from last. Somehow, I don’t think that matters.

I just want my kids back.