BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 27: Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates after winning gold in the Men's 200 metres final during day six of the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 at Beijing National Stadium on August 27, 2015. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images for IAAF) Recently I promised to focus on "the bright side" of the news because of the constant onslaught of negative headlines. It's not as easy as it sounds. One of today's headlines at the Drudge Report promises to tell the story of a woman stealing a dog from a man in medical distress as paramedics worked to save his life. Who would do such a thing? More headlines scream that the president is a racist because he's said pretty much the exact same thing about Baltimore as the former major and current congressman (parts of the city are a rat-infested cesspool) because Trump has the wrong skin color: orange. Everything seems to be a controversy, even the first American flag created by anti-slavery Quaker Betsy Ross (because Colin Kaepernick said the flag she sewed was racist.) But I don't want to talk Colin Kaepernick because I don't agree with his politics, and the point is to look for the bright side of a story. For the same reason, I don't want to talk about Megan Rapinoe and her protests as a member of the U.S. Women's National Soccer team when the national anthem was played, even though her attention-seeking gesture upset me more than Kaepernick because Rapinoe represented our nation as a competitor but was allowed to disrespect its most powerful symbol, the flag. Since I can't … [Read more...]