I started to have mis-givings about the Olympics during the Beijing Olympics, when I was reading about how Beijing residents were getting kicked out of their homes and about how China has shipped weapons of genocide to Darfur (it's not any culture I have a beef with, it's governments). I shared these misgivings with people and got a lot of "the Olympics is about the world coming together, politics should be put aside, blah blah blah..." I couldn't put my politics aside, and as this talk has revealed, everything is wrapped up in politics.