Slam dunking ruined the sport. It's dominated by a bunch of mutants that can barely make a free throw. Raise the basket another two feet and half the NBA would be flipping burgers at McDonalds.
I remember an old teacher I had who preferred the WNBA because they actualy had to play basketball the way it was intended to be played. They had to shoot baskets instead of dropping them in.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
