Taliban-approved sports

[ravi]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> ravi wrote:
> 
>>at the cost of being accused of doug's "anti-americanism", i must 
>>say that the winter olympics and its coverage have done nothing but 
>>enforce the lack of it (sportsmanship): after a couple of days of 
>>speculating on whether "north america" would take the pair skating 
>>gold away from russia, yesterday's result was summed up as 
>>"controversial" by american media and blown out of proportion.
> 
> I'm entirely comfortable with that brand of "anti-Americanism." Pound 
> away, comrade.
> 

apologies doug - only when i received my message did i notice that a 
smiley was explicitly required there!

to minimize my contribution to the lowering s/n ratio, i am adding an 
unrelated question to this message:

could some kind soul(s) provide me a reference to a text or fairly 
detailed material that covers the thinking/reasoning of the framers of 
the US constitution w.r.t copyrights/patents (prof. perelman's book on 
this stuff is not out yet, i presume?). as a thanks, i will offer a nice 
home-cooked indian meal if you, the kind soul(s), can find your way to 
jersey!

	--ravi