Restaurants are thriving. Tourism is at an all-time high. The weather is gorgeous, although maybe not for a winter Olympics.
But not all of Vancouver is happy that the Olympics is there.  First of all, there’s the crowds: one woman quoted in a New York Times article waited five hours to see an exhibit of medals [...]

Brand new sports, like brand new Olympic sites, are bound to have a few glitches.  But what’s a coupl;e crashes (or a stalled out Olypic torch) matter in the face of innovation and world solidarity? Well, not much, unless the crashes are as ridiculous as what happened in yesterday’s new Olympic sport, Ski Cross.  Ski [...]