I Hate the Olympics

Didn't they do this just a couple years ago?



The athletic equivalent of the U.N. is back again. Feel the love. Feel the marketing.

The surreal, limpwristed "Cirque du Soleil" cluster that was the opening ceremony ushered in the brave new brotherhood of man finally realized through multi-national sports competition.

V the K sums it up a bit differently, however:



The bubbleheads above were "supposed to be a tribute to '99 Red Balloons,' but the color was changed for fear of offending Islam somehow."