politics and sports - backfiring of the Beijing Olympics

Foreign Affairs journal has a really interesting article called China's Olympic Nightmare: What the Games Mean for Beijing's Future by Elizabeth C. Economy and Adam Segal. I found this rather ironic

Nothing has threatened to ruin China's Olympic moment as much as criticism of the country's repressive political system. China lost its bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics to Sydney, Australia, at least in part because of the memory of the violent Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 1989. When China made its bid for the 2008 Games, Liu Jingmin, vice president of the Beijing Olympic Bid Committee, argued, "By allowing Beijing to host the Games, you will help the development of human rights."

China may end up with more gold medals than any other country, but the rest of the world will measure its success by other means.

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I stayed home today and slept for most of it. I need these from time to time to recharge and stay well. Kane was happy, even though we didn't venture out of the house on any adventures.

I watched a horror movie, as I do on such days, called 30 Days of Night. With all that screaming, even I was scared, and Kane was so worried that he barked.