Olympics 2008

[innerSpaceman]

I'm the complete opposite of Alex. I want to see the theater of the ceremonies, and I ONLY want to see the subjective performances that are performances rather than sports, per se.

I don't give a fig about sports. And I don't much care to who wins the subjective contests in gymnastics and diving. I just like watching the routines and dives. They are artistic athleticism.

I don't care at all about races. Who's the 'fastest' doesn't interest me one bit ... even if the difference were in hours, much less the completely meaningless tenths of seconds that are not on a human time scale.



But much like the American government after 9/11, the Chinese government seems hell bent to squander the public relations earthquake sympathy they had going into these games with their blunderbus and misguided crackdowns of basic freedoms and human rights. So I think I'll give even the gymnastics and diving a pass this year, and not support this Olympics with my advertising eyeballs.