(no subject)

So I was thinking of boycotting the Olympic sponsors when I ran into this.

Not cool.

I'd say it's over the line, but I think that we've past that point. I mean, it's the sort of thing I'd expect from - oh - the United States Central Intelligence Agency.


In any case, long befer this story, it seems that several thousand other people had already come to the conclusion that a boycott can and should extend to the people who are funding the Chinese government's bread-and-circuses-and-bread-is-optional program.


Several Olympic sponsors believe this to be unfair. I would remind them that the point of sponsorship is to have your name associated with popular things. For example: when notedly homophobic Senator Larry Craig went before a judge after being caught soliciting sex in a men's washroom, he was not wearing a Nascar-style advertisement-jacket. Get it? Perhaps I should send their advertising department my resume?


Some people believe that this is unfair to people in China. Speaking as someone who lives in an Olympic city, I would love for my city's Olympics to be Boycotted - that way I might be able to get a ticket to this event that my tax dollars are paying for. I would love it even more if BC was a dictatorship and the Boycott was aimed at motivating the government to pursue human rights. I mean, I'd hope that people would pay more attention to my human rights than a bobsled race that I can't afford to see, but I'm funny that way.