Adios Vancouver

Are the winter Olympics over? I heard a rumor. Perhaps now the news media will return to covering, ah, news, and regular broadcasting will resume. 

No more of a winter Olympics in a place with no snow, where the men show cleavage and the women smoke cigars, where a "hero" loses a gold medal by falling in front of the finish line while prematurely celebrating, where Carrot Top is a celebrity, with giant inflatable beavers as mascots, where underage drinking is a medal event, where doing a quad is less important than touching your skates while jumping, and sporting events are decided by voting, where the counter-culture snowboarder practices on his own, private $10 Million run paid for by American Express, and -- my personal favorite -- a sportscaster gets suspended for saying of a fellow commentator: 

            "Hannah Storm's clothes are so tight she looks like a sausage stuffed in a sausage casing". 

Don't let the snow flakes fall on you on the way out.