Olympic update

Apparently last night all of the US woman's gymnasts fell down and blow the gold medal to a bunch of eight year old Chinese slaves. I have to admit ever since I learned NBC was broadcasting the Olympics on about a 24 hour tape delay I've lost any interest in watching. But if you do watch it tonight how will you even know the Chinese eight year olds winning the gold medal on TV are the same Chinese eight year olds who won it in real life? It seems to me, based on what has so far gone down in these games, the Chinese government and NBC will probably conspire to superimpose cuter eight-year olds over the actual footage.

In a related story, the Internet is abuzz about one of the American gymnasts who cost her nation gold by not being able to maintain her balance. Her name Alicia Sacramone and she has hit the sweet spot of being a moderately cute girl who happens to now be a famous athlete.

She also once flat knocked a guy out in a youtube video.




If you click through you will see that the victim of her feminine fury defends himself in the comment section. He went to Brown, so that pretty much explains everything.

Stand up for the Lama!

With China cracking down hard on those peace loving Tibetans, it has been suggested concerned nations protest this Chinese oppression by boycotting the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.

At jsb, our concern for Tibet takes a backseat to no one. Yet we agree that by boycotting the entire games it just punishes the athletes who have trained so hard, and deprives the billions of people who wait for four long years to witness the triumph and struggle that is the games of the olympiad. Still, just boycotting the opening ceremonies is hardly enough because the Dali Lama is really cool. So we recommend right-thinking nations also boycott the following events:

Synchronized Swimming
Water Polo
Archery
Badminton
Flatwater Canoe
Slalom Canoe
BMX
Mountain Bike
Equestrian
Handball
Judo
Sailing
Table Tennis
Winter Olympics

It's actually a "bold image for a bold games"

I hate to jump on the bandwagon, but I have to concur with the general consensus that the logo for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London is not very good on a pretty grand scale.

Although I do think many logos -- even ones that don't look like Lisa Simpson giving head -- would wilt under the scrutiny of millions of eyes staring at it in the vacuum of an unveiling.

The logo may appear to depict two Nazi magnets trying to force their way through the clutter and form a swastika, but that doesn't account for the sudden increase in epileptic seizures being suffered in England. Instead experts blame the style of animation in the logo's accompanying promotional video for the uptick.

And while Londoners are lamenting the million dollar price tag for a logo that looks like the aftermath of an evening spent drinking too much red wine and slurping too many egg yolks, I'm sure that fee is a bargain compared to the amount of money that could now be raised in support of banishing the vile Rorschach blot back to the psychiatrist's office where it belongs.