Sorry, couldn't resist the title.

I'm bummed that Chicago didn't get the games for 2016, and I was stunned that they were dropped in the first round of voting. I can see giving the games to Rio, as it would be the first country from South America to host the Olympics.

After NYC failing to get the 2012 games, and Chicago failing to get the 2016 games, I wonder who'll try for the 2020 games? Man, that's a long way away.

I've been chatting with Facebook friends about how Americans usually expect to win everything, so I want to make clear that I'm not saying that we're entitled to this or that year's games, but it'd be good to see them over here again sometime before I'm too old to care. And Winter Olympics don't count.


Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.