rio 2016

the ioc decides tomorrow whether to annoy me for the next five years of my life with an array of over exposed "celebrities" and washed up atheletes extolling the virtues of the olympics, or to overcome a bias against south america and send the 2016 summer games to brazil...i'm all for rio in this, if for no other reason than i loathe oprah and her unwarranted influence and absoultely do not want to ever see the strutting, pompous, terminally arrogant richie daley anywhere again...the olympics are a taxpayer's bane...only the elite make money on them...the public purse is left holding the bag...developers salivate over the possibillity of pulling down entire neighborhoods and destroying local urban cultures that have been resistant to their greed....the olympics is a magic talisman that will let them do things that would normally cause outrage, all in the name of prestige...an excuse to move the urban poor out to the perifery...at once taking them out of sight and immesurably complicating their lives by removing them from the immediate vicinity of their subsistence....making the cost of commuting to a minimum wage job prohibitive...all while some hokey olympic village and glittering new venues are constructed, only to be virtually abandoned after the games...the money is in the preperation, not the execution of the games and the loudest supporters are those with the most to gain...roughly half the poplation of chicago wants nothing to do with this...no-one is asking the sattelite communities here in northwest indiana what they think ( but i'm telling you anyway ) they usually don't...here's wishing all the luck in the world to rio.