The Olympic games are officially over.  Collective sigh.  As I detox from the last 16 days of Olympic grandeur, let’s reflect on the memories we’ll bring home with us from the 2008 Beijing Olympic games:

-The digitally added fireworks in the opening ceremonies.
-The child singer who was too ugly to sing.
-The condoms (and apparently, sex) that no one wanted

And lets not forget the closing ceremony which included solo work by (the corpse of) Jimmy Page, a strange random appearance by David Beckham (Did he really need to be lifted into the sky on a platform?), and that singer chick that no one can seem to name (Alicia Keys? Byonce?  Who the hell is that?).

Congrats to London.  May the 2012 Olympics come swiftly and conclude without scandal.

Now we can go back to discussing China like adults…  Tibet, censorship, and remember that little word called Communisim?

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There’s been much heat on China lately with the Olympics taking place there, and renewed protests for a free Tibet, so with the Olympic torch passing through London security for the 31 mile stretch was heavy, but that didn’t stop some from trying to snuff the flame.

London police guarded the 31-mile route and escorted torchbearers as protesters of China’s human rights record and its involvement in Tibet tried to extinguish the flame, CNN reported.London police announced 15 arrests Sunday, but the relay passed by London’s Chinese embassy and the office of Prime Minister Gordon Brown without incident.

Brown noted the Dalai Lama resisted calls to boycott the Beijing Summer Games and refused to make a gesture of opposition against China during the torch relay.

Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg called the torch procession “wholly inappropriate,” saying “human rights are being systematically abused on an extraordinary scale in China,” the BBC reported.