Chinning China

YELLOW PERIL

on 205th magazine: Stuff Guys Like. [Pop Culture ... found this 7/22/2008 on www.epiccarnival.com

by Tracer Bullet , Staff Writer I was lounging pool-side with a cocktail at the palatial Manse EC this morning when Editor-in-Chief and billionaire tyrant DC Scrap dumped a bottle of hideously expensive champagne over my head. "Get your lazy ass to ...

Some Olympics Announcers Might as Well be Bloggers

Major League Jerk found this 7/22/2008 on thebiglead.com

Interesting note in the Chicago Tribune yesterday : While NBC is sending an astonishing 2,900 people out to Beijing to cover the listless Olympics, not every sport will be called by on-scene broadcasters. Ten sports will be called by announcers who ...

Bombers Target Two China Buses Ahead of Olympics

And One posted 7/23/2008 from www.nysun.com

Chinese authorities are hunting bombers who killed two people in attacks on commuter buses yesterday morning, just three weeks before the Beijing Olympic Games begin. The first bomb exploded at 7:05 a.m. on a bus at a stop on People's Road West, one of the main thoroughfares of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which borders Vietnam, Burma, and Tibet in China's far south.

China Will Allow Protests at the Olympics...Sort of

mikehayes19 posted 7/23/2008 from steady-burn.blogspot.com

Beijing is setting up designated demonstration areas - MILES away from the Olympic Green, and the main festivities. Plus, you've got to apply for permission to protest!

Olympic Broadcasting Center Evacuated

With Leather - Why, that's Satan's sports blog! ... found this 7/23/2008 on awfulannouncing.blogspot.com

More good news from Beijing today as a gaseous substance flooded the Olympic Broadcasting Center that will house thousands of broadcasters from around the world next month. Via Newsday.... BEIJING (AP) _ Hundreds of people were evacuated Wednesday ...