Barack Ballin

Definitively, we can say that change has come now that we have our first President that can legitimately hoop.  Here is a Youtube Mixtape of Barack's basketball highlights.  Someone, please explain to me why he wears Michelle's sweatpants when he works out.  

As a counterpoint, here is a video of George Bush playing basketball in Belfast.  Seeing that lame touch pass followed up by airball makes me squint.  However, I bet he would destroy Barack at Beer Pong.

Full Court Hilarity

In Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider is attempting to replicate the Big Bang by repeatedly colliding opposing beams of protons or lead ions. It's really incredible stuff. And it gets you thinking about how many small coincidences and strokes of fate had to happen, over millions of years, for the Earth to eventually exist, and for it to be hospitable to human life. It's heady stuff, and it certainly puts everything into perspective.
I get this feeling every time I watch this clip - the series of events that would have had to follow each other, in precise timing, for that sprinting child to nearly get decapitated by that basketball is humbling. Bravo, unnamed basketball thrower. Bravo, running child. Bravo, anonymous, courageous cameraman. And bravo, Fate.