Wired Cola

I have heard there are concerns the Olympic ideals might be soiled by such activity.

Here's what I think.

1) It's just sports.
2) Not boycotting leaves the countries and athletes about as complicit as people who buy stuff made in China.
3) I have a strong suspicion that so many athletes will undertake some form of personal protest that it will make Mexico 1968 look like a tempest in a teapot.
4) And really, the Olympics is teapots all the way down.

As for China, I think they're starting to learn the true (but is it high?) cost of their actions in Tibet. And I think the world's most overrated economy is acting just a tad desperate.

This post largely grew out of a Twitter conversation with Michael Allison and reading Tim Bray's take.