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Jackie Chan can get that torch…

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

He is the mutant of choice, no doubt.  I don’t even have to go through the possible ways that Jackie Chan could get that torch.  You know it would change hands two dozen times, as fists, legs, heads, shirts used as restraints, police clubs, mace, police dogs, helicopter blades, mace (medieval kind with the ball [...]

This is going to be more complicated than I thought

Monday, April 7th, 2008

from the AP :
France’s former sports minister, Jean-Francois Lamour, stressed that though the torch was extinguished along the route, the Olympic flame itself still burned in a lantern where it is kept overnight and on airplane flights. A Chinese official said that flame was used to re-light the torch each time it was brought aboard [...]

Let’s put out that torch people! Here’s how!

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Watching the news today, it was interesting to see two shining, symbolic beacons of freedom working at complete cross purposes. In the red corner, weighing in at 11 incarnations, the Dalai Lama! In the blue corner, fighting out of 3000 years of history, from Athens Greece, the eternal Olympic flame!
Now we all know [...]