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" I try to stay off The Corner as much as I can, because that&amp;#039;s what my mom used to tell me. &amp;quot;Hey, get off the corner!&amp;quot; But, whenever the topic among the wingnuts turns to sports, I&amp;#039;m always there \u2014 because hilarity is never far behind. How much of a foof do you have to be to write these sentences? Discuss. Philip Noel-Baker ran track for Britain at the Olympic Games of 1912, 1920, and 1924. (The 1916 Games were canceled, obviously.) In the 1920 Games, held in Antwerp, he won the silver medal in the 1500 meters. Noel-Baker was unsound about disarmament, but the guy could run. Noel-Baker was a Quaker, which probably accounts for how &amp;quot;unsound&amp;quot; he was. He was so unsound that, during World War I as a conscientious objector, he led an ambulance unit in combat, work for which he was decorated not only by his own government, but by France and Italy as well. He also wrote extensively in the 1930&amp;#039;s about the dangers of the international arms trade, something he&amp;#039;d seen first-hand while unsoundly delivering bodies to field hospitals under fire. He won his Nobel for his work on nuclear disarmament, which strikes me as being testimony to his having been rather sound, but I&amp;#039;m not a silly heckler 30 years after his death. And how much of an obsessive do you have to be to do this? Ralph Bunche was amazing. He was the star athlete at Jefferson High in L.A., as well as the valedictorian. That&amp;#039;s a little weird: Usually, you&amp;#039;re a jock or a brain. But this is weirder: He went to UCLA on a basketball scholarship, where he was again a star athlete. And the valedictorian. And we&amp;#039;re talking about a young black man in the 1910s and &amp;#039;20s. His grandmother had been a slave. When Bunche earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, he was the first black person in America to earn a Ph.D. in political science.Talented fellow. Nothing like the One, though... First of all, it&amp;#039;s not that &amp;quot;weird&amp;quot; to be a jock and a brain in high-school. Some of the best athletes I knew in high school looked at school the same way they looked at running suicides at practice, and they ground out fine GPA&amp;#039;s. I suspect that&amp;#039;s not unusual. Also, Bill Bradley&amp;#039;s on Line 5 and would like a word, and I&amp;#039;ve got Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on hold. Arthur Ashe and Paul Robeson said they&amp;#039;d call from the Beyond to discuss this, too. But it takes a certain kind of cheap-shot pipsqueak to use the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner to bash another one, who also happens to be the first African American president of the United States, too. Want to know what Bunche would think of this bilge? &amp;quot;I have a number of very strong biases. I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias against war, a bias for peace. I have a bias which leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble. And I have a strong bias in favor of the United Nations and its ability to maintain a peaceful world.&amp;quot; Or: From 1938 to 1940, Dr. Bunche collaborated with Gunnar Myrdal in his researches on &amp;quot;An American Dilemma.&amp;quot; Their questions about interracial sex relations aroused a mob of angry whites who chased them across Alabama one night.  Or, you could ask the geezers at the West Side Tennis Club who made the mistake of crossing him: In 1959, he was involved in a much-publicized incident in which he and his son, Ralph Jr., were refused membership in the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills. Dr. Bunche took up the cudgels and received an apology, and the club official responsible for the rebuff resigned. Dr. Bunche then declined an offer of membership. He was angered because the change appeared to be based on his personal prestige, and not on any principle of racial equality. &amp;quot;No Negro American can be free from the disabilities of race in this country until the lowliest Negro in Mississippi is no longer disadvantaged because of his race,&amp;quot; he said. And what did the National Review say about him back in the day? &amp;quot;It had been our intention to leave Dr. Bunche alone, having dismissed him as, essentially, a UN mercenary, a man with an undistinguished mind and rather bad personal manners,&amp;quot; the magazine said. &amp;quot;It becomes necessary under the circumstances ... to go on just a little bit further, and say that Mr. Bunche&amp;#039;s judgment is very poor indeed, and that this should be kept in mind in evaluating his assessments of the tangled affairs of our disintegrating world.&amp;quot; Yeah, he&amp;#039;d understand why President Obama isn&amp;#039;t worth it. Jesus, these people. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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