Via yet another story about Obama, it turns out Chicago is vying to host the 2016 Olympics.
*snort*
And you thought there were protests this year?
The politicization of the Olympics is a disastrous, precedent-setting development… and if China responds as the protesters want, then the political genie will be completely out of the bottle and running free.
Maybe the IOC should just come up with a couple of permanent Games sites, in countries that nobody is upset with. Surely there’s someplace out there on the planet that hasn’t ticked off one group or another.
Let’s see…. where would that be?
Anybody?