Boy, nothing says gesture politics – if I were less Jane Austenian, I would say F--- you politics – quite like skipping a major event, and when the event is the Olympics, well, the gesture is big-time.

So President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will not be going to Sochi in a diss to anti-gay Russian prez Vladimir “Rootin’ Tootin’” Putin. Obama has also appointed Billie Jean King and two-time ice hockey Olympian Caitlin Cahow, both openly gay, as U.S. representatives to the games to underscore his point.

Some say there’s no place for politics in sports. Perhaps, but it’s there… Read more