Sport in this country is about Compulsory Heterosexualty. Or as Salon put it “Enough with the Diving, NBC!” Cause we all know that diving is just for sissy-boys. It’s not REAL MAN sport like swimming. Oh yeah there are gay swimmers but no one’s going to talk about them. Just Phelps.

For the next year or more it’s gonna be Phelps 24/7, with copious coverage of whatever “lucky little lady” he chooses to marry.

Matt and Lachlan, meanwhile will be studiously ignored.

But he’s a National Hero in Australia.

Anyway, I’m not really that into diving, but I heard about Mitcham’s gold just after it happened — they showed it live in Britain, while NBC (of course) delayed it for primetime. My gay friends were very happy. The home of the soft-focus Triumph Over Struggle Olympic Profile decided it wasn’t worth a mention, even though it was a huge deal in Australia, where there’s still a strong ‘no poofters’ culture around sport. I felt bad for the commentators, because they were obviously under instruction from management: Don’t Mention Teh Ghey.

This was his response, paraphrasing what she said- “He has a lot of experience in DC, and she feels Barack lacks the experience of how DC works, although she gives credit for his rise in life, Biden’s “one of us” economically, and he’s an attack dog. She said he’ll stick it ‘em.”

I thought the point about Biden being savvy about how DC works was a really great insight.