iRony™

Anyone out there scratching their heads at the base irony that is the Beijing Olympics 2008? Over the years sports people have been hauled over the coals (figuratively) for debasing the image of the games whereas the games are to be held in a country that quite literally does the same for who knows why? Traffic infringement? I realise it's an overworked point but it's still there.

But then to add to this iRony™ is the fact that most of the people out there protesting the Chinese infractions to basic human interaction (or Tibet. maybe both) then go home and use one of the many new household items they got cheap in the last few years thanks to parallel importing and China. In the words of Stephen Colbert "thank you China, our happy meals are made possible by you…" (2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner).

We wont even mention the yellow cake we seem self-interest bound to export to anyone out there yearning for enriched uranium. With a sticker on the side of the barrel marked "not for weapons".

"…Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense…"
- Terry Pratchett

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding"
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive"
- Robert A. Heinlein (1807 - 1988)