While I'm in England

Here I am in Lancaster, enjoying the cold weather and rain - to be honest it's barely rained in three days, but I've seen plenty - and the wonderful variety of food. I miss many things about Gambia, and I know I will be for a long time, but one thing I am loving in particular is getting back in touch with the wonderful thing that broadband internet access is. Ah, to surf again.

And while I'm surfing, and generally catching up with the vast and varied media of our society, I've been paying attention to one of my favorite sporting events, the Tour de France. And, for the second year in a row, it's fallen badly under the shadow of doping, performance enhancers and generally unclean behavior. And while I hate that it's happening the way that it is, and can't wait for it to be a clean sport, I just saw an article that put it into perspective a bit. Jemele Hill writes about how American sports could never survive the scrutiny that professional cyclists undergo. I love the NFL, but...

The newest way I know I'm not in Africa anymore: I'm surfing both the internet and the t.v. channels at the same time. And I still have the attention span of a juvenile gnat.