It’s Buzkashi Season!
By Mitch Berg
Also in “spring has sprung” news, it’s now Buzkashi season in Afghanistan.
The centuries-old game has been described as “Rugby on horseback with a sheep carcass in stead of a ball”. It involves hundreds of Afghans on horseback trying to throw a carcass across the finish line, or something. Buzkashi is among the most violent sports in the world, frequently ending in injured or dead contestants.
In related news, Frank Rich has demanded that House Republicans condemn the violence the Tea Parties have brought to Afghanistan’s national pastime.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:19 am
Kind of reminds me of a couple hundred Congressmen and women trying to drag a carcass across the finish line a couple of weeks ago. There are likely a few dead and maimed careers in the wake of that, too.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:22 am
Headless carcass no less. Don’t the Mongolians play it, too?
March 31st, 2010 at 11:47 am
Frank Rich has asked all members of the Tea Party movement to apologize for Peev and Dog’s violence against brevity, coherent posts, and consistency.
March 31st, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Will he be apologizing for the Tea Party’s absence of factual statements as well?
March 31st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
If he was a journalist he would present them. He’s a race-baiting lefty, so don’t hold your breath, Doggie.
March 31st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Some one is obsessed over the tea party movement.
March 31st, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Tea Party’s lack of factual statements? You must mean “The Obama Adminstration’s lack of factual statements,” DG.
March 31st, 2010 at 4:50 pm
As soon as the Democrat party apologises for their members’ lack of brains, deegee…he’ll get right on that little thing. .
March 31st, 2010 at 4:51 pm
i’m detecting a bit of peevishness in deegee’s dim-witted retorts today, Mitch…I think you’ve struck the one nerve she has retained in her vestigal brain stem.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:54 pm
“There are likely a few dead and maimed careers in the wake of that, too.”
To start. Numbers will graph up in 2012 and 2014. Dramatically.
BTW, to early to have the over/under on the Championship Buzkashi Bowl game?