Fool's Gold Medals

Reason.com ^ | Nov. 7, 2002 | James Morrow

[TheToddinator]

With a massive budget deficit, a year-old hole in the ground where once $100 billion worth of office building stood and 3,000 lives were lost, with a mayor whose biggest concern is whether or not his citizens escape to Marlboro country when they drown their sorrows at the corner saloon, New York City clearly doesn't have enough problems. That's why it was such great news that the United States Olympic Committee announced last week that the Big Apple would be America's nominee to host the 2012 Olympics.

It's not only that there are so many reasons to hate the Olympics on an abstract level. The c'mon-people-now-smile-on-your-sibling athletic transnational progressivism is enough to turn the stomach of anyone with more commitment to national sovereignty than Strobe Talbott...

[Budge]

Wonder what Bloomberg will do when all the folks from other countries who like to smoke cigarettes start raising he:: beause they can't.

[Pontiac]

This is the most sense I have ever read about the Olympic Games. Just about evry city that host the Olympic Games looses ther a$$ on the deal.