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The 2008 Ad-lympics

The house on Palm Beach doesn’t have TV. So sticking to my self-imposed Olympic ban has been easy. My friend Lisa gives me the run-down. She had been on the 1980 Women’s Field Hockey team. “Fuck that peanut farmer.” She’s a liberal but still holds a grudge against Jimmy Carter for banning the USA from […]

Olympics Berlin 1936

And the tradition lives on in Beijing 2008 Free Tibet Free dog meat

Chinese Kung-Fu Thugs protect Olympic Torch from Shame

Every step of the way for the Olympic torch becomes increasingly more difficult, as world outrage against Chinese occupation of Tibet galvanizes into street demonstrations and near-violence confrontations with the flying vee of Chinese security men in those cute blue training outfits aka ‘the flame protection squad’. The ‘Harmonious Journey’ ran into immediate resistance in […]