More on politics and society from The Atlantic Monthly. This led to a more generalized philippic against the uneven justice and perceived hypocrisy of the NCAA on such matters as recruiting and eligibility. Apparently not, I eventually learned. Toe pitch, leg pitch or walk-in and 'smoosh' front and back flips are prohibited. This is not, clearly, a governing body to be trifled with.
Every day brings word of their doings.
At the White House a new entity, with the unrevealing name Office of Strategic Initiatives, headed by Karl Rove, is likely to become the governing body for the Bush Administration's political machinations all across the land. By definition, many governing bodies are occupied with the tasks of government. Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans can't resist bringing the procedures of government into their private affairs. The federal government, of course, remains our largest single repository of governing bodies. Utter a place name, and you're under the purview of the United States Board on Geographic Names, the group responsible for a near total official ban on apostrophes.