While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.

Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.