That About Which We Could Not Possibly Care Any Fucking Less

The Olympic Games. (Only four more days until we're drowning in them.) A cesspool of competition & pointless nationalism, anathema to rootless cosmopolitans such as the editorial staff here. Unless of course something blows up, or the Chicoms massacre protesters, in the style of Tien an Men Square or the PRI in Mexico City in 1968. Speaking of such incidents, remember the belief that "free markets" & "economic opportunity" would lead to democracy & freedom of expression? In the cases of Russia & the People's Republic of China, predatory capitalism (both) & profit-grubbing corporations owned by the military or government (China) or sold to the highest bidder (Russia) have led to oligarchy & continued fascism. Something wrong w/ your economic tenets, gliberati?