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From The Room: How Old Are Those Chinese Gymnasts?
August 23, 2008 - Numbers have been very important in the Olympic Games. The number 8 is the luckiest number in the Chinese lore, so it was considered fortuitous to start the Olympics at exactly eight minutes after eight on 8/08/08. 16, 11, and 14 have been important, too. Some of the...
From The Room: Asians Better at Math, Especially When It Comes to Faking Gymnasts' Ages
August 22, 2008 - Well, it's official. An IOC investigation of the Chinese women's gymnastics team members' ages is underway. Five out of the six team members--He Kexin, Yang Yilin, Jiang Yuyuan, Deng Linlin a...
From The Room: Featured Nine-Year-Old Olympic "Dancer" Turns Out to Be Creation of Pedophiliac Animator
August 22, 2008 - BEIJING -- Supporting allegations that portions of the opening ceremonies of the XXIX Olympiad were pre-produced and "enhanced" by computer-generated sleight-of-hand, a fifteen minute excerpt from this Sunday's closing ceremonies appeared over YouTube, before Chinese authorities dem...
Dickipedia: The Olympics
August 21, 2008 - The Olympic Games (born 776 BC) is an international multi-sport event, a contest to see which country's chemists can concoct the least-detectable performance-enhancing drugs, brought to you by Visa--it's everywhere you want to be--and a dick...
From The Room: Devout U.S. Archery Coach Attributes Team's Poor Showing to Christ's "Understandable" Bias Toward Water Sports
August 20, 2008 - BEIJING, China (Sportsman's Daily Wire Service) --Kisik Lee, the head coach of the United States archery team, is a devout Christian who believes a strong faith makes for better archers because it helps q...
From The Room: The Many Faces of Being a Woman in 2008
August 18, 2008 - Channel surfing last night at midnight drove home what being a woman means in 2008: At the same moment as a re-run of the Obama/McCain interview with McCain citing eBay founder Meg Whitman as one of three people whose opinion he'd seek out should he become president...
From The Room: Human Rights Violations Medal Count 2008
August 18, 2008 - The United States and China are locked in a heated race for global human rights violations supremacy. While it was predicted that China would win the overall violations count, the U.S. is putting it's weakening money where China's one billionth mouth is. Did...
From The Room: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Olympics, the Agony of the Seat
August 15, 2008 - I am trying very hard to put my backside in front of the television to root home our Olympic team, but in direct contrast to the old saw, my flesh is willing but my spirit is weak. I just can't get into the games, and after giving it some...
From The Room: The Flip-Flop: In Praise Of The Biggest Political Sin
August 14, 2008 - Candidates have been calling their opponents names throughout history. Here in America, they've been called, "a hell raiser," "a tax raiser," ""an abolitionist," "a pro-slaver," "a hawk," "a dove," "a communist," "a fascist," "an intellectual," or "an idiot." But lately, there is one charge that is...
Georgia strikes back at Russia...in beach volleyball
August 13, 2008 - In the Russia-Georgia conflict, the score is now tied. After several days of watching their cities being reduced to rubble, Georgia decided to settle their differences with Russia the old fash...Filed under: Cristine Santanna and Andrezza Chagas, Cristine Santanna Andrezza Chagas Brazil, Georgia volleyball Brazil, Cristine Santanna Andrezza Chagas, Georgian volley ball players, Georgian volleyball players, Georgia Russia volley ball, Alexandra Shiryaeva and Natalia Uryadova, Alexandra Shiryaeva and Natalia Uryadova, Dmitri Medvedev, Russian president, Tskhinvali, Tbilsi, Gori, Mikheil Saakashvili, Ossetia, South Ossetia, Russian invasion, Russian invasion Ossetia, Ossetia invasion, Georgia invasion, invasion Georgia, Putin invasion, Putin Ossetia, Ossetia Putin, Russian invasion South Ossetia, Georgia NATO, NATO Georgia, Dmitri Medvedev, Dmitri Medvedev invasion, Dmitri Medvedev Ossetia
23/6 Video: The Olympic Opening Ceremonies in a minute
August 12, 2008 - NBC's coverage of the Olympic Opening Ceremony clocked in at over four hours. While Zhang Yimou's display was certainly memorable—regardless of the CGI fireworks—even the Chinese couldn't figure out a way to computer generate a procession of obscure African/Eastern European countries that...
Catch Olympic Fever! (symptoms include extreme ignorance of outside world)
August 12, 2008 - Russia at war? Edwards love child? McCain Viagra baby-eating scandal? Who cares?! The Olympics are on!! A lot of major international news apparently isn't important when Michael Phelps is about to take to the pool. MSNBC has done away with news completely while the Olympics are on. The...
From The Room: Team USA Cleans Up or Team Bush
August 12, 2008 - The millions watching as the American male swimmers realized they'd won the Olympics gold in the relay race will never forget their reactions. Seconds before the first swimmer hit the water, the TV announcer had been saying that he'd done the math every which way and it always...
From The Room: A Detailed Analysis of Bush on His High Horse in Cartoon Form
August 11, 2008 - ...Perez Hilton covers the Olympics opening ceremony
August 8, 2008 - ...Filed under: China opening ceremony, opening ceremony, opening ceremonies, China opening ceremonies, Beijing opening ceremony, Beijing opening ceremonies, Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies, Olympics opening ceremony, Olympics opening ceremonies, Beijing Olympics, Olympic organizers, Olympic protests, Chinese dissidents, China political prisoners, China human rights violations, bikers masks, Olympics masks, cyclists masks, athletes masks, masks cyclists, Beijing masks apology, masks apology, cyclists apology, Beijing Olympics human rights, Free Tibet, Beijing Olympics Tibet, China human rights, Olympics cock and balls, cock and balls, Beijing pollution, Beijing air quality, China human rights violations
