Cleats by Bill Hinds for August 03, 2022

Before you light it, make sure there are no doves sitting on the edge of the grill…

If that grill goes up in flames, you’ll be working every cent off that bill.

Groan. That whole torch run and flaming cauldron were contrived, de novo, for the Olympics of 1936, to give (fake) Classical cachet to the glorification of Aryan physical perfection. Which conceit was promptly punctured by Jesse Owens (“a person of color”) and his four gold medals.