Well, you wrecked my plan. I posted that article three days ago. Up until to your view, it was getting zeros in the Medium stats. I was going to use "getting skunked" as inspiration for a new article .

Oh well.

I doubt this one is going to break double digits. I may still use "almost skunked."

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Drawing to the button as a means to earn refugee status in Canada. That is an interesting idea.

Curling has become a very interesting game. It almost collapsed a generation ago at the professional level. The curlers were so good at the simple shots, that they never missed. Team A sets of guard; Team B chips it out: Team A sets up another guard, Team B chips it out, and for another 12 rocks. Last rock in the first end often won the game. Very boring for spectators.

Then they put in the no-knock-out-first-four-rocks-in-play rule. Then we had a game with lots of strategy, more difficult shots, and more fun to watch.

At the time, the curling federations around the world resisted changing the rules. They claimed traditions should not be changed. That is how we honor the past. Well, a dwindling TV audience

got the sport to abandon its traditions. Today, no curler would go back to the good old days.

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I bring this up in that we need to change out more than a few traditions in our democracies.