I was reminded once again that the olympics are upon us. I have more than a couple friends who are very excited about this.

I find myself yawning and hoping it ends quickly without me having to notice.

It is party because I do no understand the capacity in people to sit and watch sports. In this round it is compounded by my cool feelings towards China. Yeah international politics are complicated, but a society that traffics in the organs of prisoners is a bit much for me.

If you are reading this for the first time please do not think I give my nation a ‘pass’!! There are indeed no victims, only continual victimizers.

I am not a nativist, nor a xenophobe, simply victim of the importation of inexpensive Asain labor for our grad schools coming back to haunt us.

So yeah, let’s just be thankful the olympics are smack in the middle of beachtime!!!

I look forward each year to listen to the meathead sports casters tell us how amazing it is that professional sports players and pseudo professionals (aka college - lets not fool ourselves, college athletes that get on the major news are not amateurs) take the time out to volunteer at soup kitchens and the like. Good for them. I am happy they are able to step outside themselves for a moment.

The second a 5 minutes tv spot with them spouting PR cleansed platitudes is produced the cosmic deal book is left in arrears.

These people are sub-human-decerebrates paid to perform like circus animals. They are not heroes. They are no role models, unless you are a Russian bear. They are not people for us to hold up as paragons for anything other than smart contract negotiation skills, and odds are they paid a lawyer for that.