Only one cool thing ever happened in #taekwondo. And they should’ve just ended the sport after this. It’s called going out on top.
This has a special place in my heart because, as the #taekwondo producer for NBC during the Beijing Games, I didn’t expect any of my content to make the home page, but can you imagine how stoked I was to tell people I’VE GOT SOMETHING!! A competitor just kicked a ref in the face!
I also created a photo gallery during the Games called “kicked in the face” that, as you can guess, was just athletes getting kicked in the face. It performed very well.
Judo, on the other hand, is v cool

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21 Aug 20
I feel like people can watch all this Biden stuff and hear about him giving out his cell number and consoling random folks, and maybe wonder if it’s possibly true. I have a lot of Biden stories from my years as his driver in the senate, but here’s one.
If Senate business ran late - Senate late - and Biden missed the 10 pm train, he didn’t just grab a hotel room. His DC driver drove him up the GW Parkway to Maryland House, where the Delaware driver met us and took him home.
Thing is it wasn’t always clear he’d not make the 10 pm train. One night we made a mad dash. I thought we made it. But, PER PROTOCOL of being 23 and terrified of leaving Joe Biden at Union Station, I hung around. He called a couple minutes later and asked where I was.
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So, I have a @SenJohnMcCain story. In December of 2003, my cousin, a Massachusetts resident, was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq. He spent weeks recovering and enduring eye surgeries at Walter Reed. I was a staff assistant in Joe Biden’s office - the lowest of low Senate jobs
I asked Erik if there was anything I could do to help him pass time and take his mind off things. He had one ask, and on its face it seemed like a huge one, just get me in to meet @SenJohnMcCain
“Oh sure,” I thought. A staff assistant for a Delaware senator will just get a meeting for his Massachusetts-native cousin with the senior senator from Arizona. But I emailed McCain’s scheduler, and almost immediately she gave me a time and date for Erik and his dad to stop by
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