Bird’s Nest in smog

This is not one of the pictures in the slideshow that is linked to from here, because having seen those I then went searching on Flickr to try to find a bigger and better one, of the Beijing Bird’s Nest, with smog: Click on that to get to the Flickr original. The Olympics illustrate more vividly than almost any other phenomenon the total lack of fit between the fantasies of politics and the realities of real life. As an example of the fantasy, giant-pod-from-outer-space-money-no-obje

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