農暦五月十三日。二日続きで早晩にジムで走る。走るときにはiPhoneでNike+のアプリ使つてゐるのだが走り終はると“Well done! ”と男性の声でナントカ＝ナダルと名乗る。誰だか知らず調べて庭球の有名な選手。帰宅してうどん煮て飰す。
▼興味がないと言ひつゝ連日の蹴球話も何だがアタシのやうなへそ曲がりに興味深いのは英エコノミスト誌（６月７日号）の特集で巻頭は“Beautiful game, dirty business”と題してＷ杯主催するFIFAの金権体質を批判（こちら）。
Sadly, soccer fans are romantic nationalists, not logical economists―so our proposal stands less chance of winning than England does. One small step towards sanity would be formally to rotate the tournament, so it went, say, from Europe to Africa to Asia to the Americas, which would at least stop intercontinental corruption. But very little of this will happen without change at the top in Zurich.
といふ皮肉なコメント。蹴球がワールドスポーツとされるが
Football is not as global as it might be (see article). The game has failed to conquer the world’s three biggest countries: China, India and America. In the United States soccer, as they call it, is played but not watched. In China and India the opposite is true. The latter two will not be playing in Brazil (indeed, they have played in the World Cup finals just once between them).
といふわけで、特集記事“A game of two halves”（こちら）は、まぁ執拗に
The notorious corruption of the sport’s governing body, FIFA (see article) has not stopped it enrolling more members (209) than the United Nations (193). In 2006 FIFA estimated that the game’s players, both serious and casual, totalled 300m.
The world does not just play football―it watches it, bets on it, argues about it and spends money on it.
と辛辣な指摘が続く。
▼毎日新聞社説「社説:集団的自衛権 理解できぬ首相の焦り」（こちら）
@fookpaktsuen: （集団的自衛権 行方を問う）間違いなく「地球の裏」へ 漫画家・小林よしのり氏 - 朝日 URL 日本人は「権力、お上に寄り添ってきたから。、権力が暴れたときのことを考えられない」「このまま行くと、安倍さんの独裁」と小林氏。
@fookpaktsuen: 東京のすし店、丸ごと美術館に収蔵 倉俣史朗デザイン、香港「Ｍ＋」に移設へ - 朝日新聞デジタル URL どうせなら寿司職人と客も作品の一部として展示するとか。
