30.6.08

new column: olympic fever...kinda-sorta

8-8-8. The number of the Games of the 29th Olympiad. The Olympics. I should be excited, right? Isn't this a hopeful season, sports and goodwill to all people? Yet I am ambivalent...the choice of China to hold the Olympics is unsettling to me. The reason isn't so much recent events between China and Tibet, although these are disturbing in their own rights, but a much larger issue involving...well, you'll just have to read parts 1 and 2 of column to find out. Part 1 posted at TFPO today; part 2 will post next week.

Olympic Fever...Kinda-Sorta

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