Why "Bad Javelin Day"?

Why, the Olympics, of course. It all started, as things usually do, with a Gawker thread, with the wordsmithing Hamilton Nolan proferring ideas on how to cover the Beijing Games.  During the resulting comment thread, the always snarkily effervescent scroll_lock posted this sick-ass photo -

- leading commenter Tammany Fall (love the name) to ask this.

So, in short, I hang out with a bunch of troublemakers.  And we all have a Bad Javelin Day sometimes.  Here’s NBC’s sked for track & field coverage, in case you’re up for some televised javelin.



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