In case you haven’t heard, Michael Phelps is apparently some sort of God, and the U.S. media is going to urinate on themselves if they don’t get to touch him some time soon.

In other news, resident Latina BadAss, Brenda Villa is kicking some water polo butt and Mexican synchronized divers, Paola Espinosa and Tatiana Ortiz, managed to face down a competitive field to pull in a lovely bronze medal.

Fidel Castro made it to another birthday, on the same day that his baseball team and volleyball team won some great games (the volleyball team subsequently lost to the U.S.). On a more important note, volleyball women are amongst the hottest women at the Olympics. But even as I say that, I must admit to such a strong sense of feminist outrage when watching beach volleyball, I can’t even make it through a match. Please, compare the women’s uniforms (and subsequent media pictures) to the men’s. Can we all do a collective feminist vomit?

And finally, in a move to show it’s continuing brilliance, the U.S. Congress has decided to try to strip the Russian Olympians of their medals as a way to protest the Russian government’s invasion of Georgia. I tend to think that oh, I don’t know, diplomacy with an actual government works better than punishing a few citizens of said government, but what the hell, we have to pay taxes for some reason, I guess.

Until the next update,
La Macha