I am not sure I want to add anything to this book review:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n22/david-goldblatt/how-to-get-on-tv

How to Get on TV

1) As we settle in for another settler-colonial holiday, it appears that the time is ripe for an intrusion of those ugly matters of politics into our entertainment fare. There will, as you all well know, be sports spectacle on your tee-vee screens today. For the purposes of this article we will be referring to "spectacle sports," namely, the sports you see on that tee-vee.

The idea behind focused apathy is that there are certain things in life which do not merit our attention and which are there to keep us from seeing other things which we might benefit from seeing. Focused apathy, then, is the power to avoid caring about those things. There is, after all, a reason why people's eyes are both on the same side of the head, and not on opposite sides of the head, like what you see with a lot of birds.

Harrison Browne retired from hockey at the end of 2016. The only openly transgender athlete to play a professional team sport went out a winner as his Buffalo Beauts won the Isobel Cup.

Wikipedia sums up his career:

Kaig (pronounced Cage) Lightner is 37. He is founder of the Portland Community Football Club and Director of Coaching.

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper has just issued an assessment that the playbook and playoff strategy of the Green Bay Packers has been hacked in a malicious cyber incident by known actors under direction of the New York Giants organization.

Harrison Browne is called Brownie by his Buffalo Beauts teammates in the National Women's Hockey League.

Last season the 23-year-old forward nicknamed "Brownie" helped his pro hockey team in Buffalo to the championship series, and with the season opener Friday, Buffalo aims for more than just a shot at a title in 2016-17.

It's National Coming Out Day...not just here but also in the UK.