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Gentle Readers,

As you know, Dr. J. is the Olympics aficionado of the group. He would have posted this sooner, but he watched the Opening Ceremonies DVR’d as it was Senior Night for the Bene Gesserit Witches basketball team, and Clan J. are big fans of the team, as the varsity squad are big fans of the Lil Resident’s vocal talents, as she’s sung the national anthem at three home games.

Dr. J. will open the games with his review of the Opening Ceremonies. He will do this review Larry King Elipsis Style, so if you don’t like it that way, too bad, and don’t bother with reading IMAO.us, either, as Frank will do killer LKES posts.

Nevertheless, he watched the Opening Ceremonies almost to completion, but he will get to that in due course:

• NBC is hosting the Olympics AGAIN. They really suck at it, turning the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat into emotive handwringing pablum for the masses. 
• Dr. J. would relish Fox Sports covering the games some year, if only to see Megan Kelly and Sean Hannity host opening ceremonies and rip communism a new a$$h0le. 
• Speaking of communism, NBC, the U.S.S.R., contrary to the critics of the narration, was a pivotal experiment in communism, and it clearly demonstrated that communism doesn’t work. AT ALL. Please forward the results of the experiment to the White House so that we do not repeat the experiment here!
• There were a lot of empty seats at some pre opening ceremony coverage. Mrs. Dr. J. feels the host country should be able to fill the seats. That’s how it goes in the US.
• Speaking of NBC coverage, the addition of David Remnick to the team was brilliant. He actually added informative commentary. They don’t need Matt Lauer, nor Meredith Viera. hosting. Google the Cyrillic alphabet? Please. David and perhaps, dare I say it, Bob Costas, would have been better. Shoot. Dr. J., who has a unit in 9th grade, and a trimester in 11th grade of Russian history could have provided far better coverage than either Matt or Meredith.
• Dr. J. actually enjoyed the ceremony itself much better than London 2012. 
• What the hell was that interview with the President about. The best part was when Bob Costas asked him about how relations weakened since he took over. Most of it was kiss-up propaganda. 
• The opening with the Cyrillic alphabet of historical figures was very cool and extremely well done. 
• That little girl, Lubov, was adorable. 
• The snowflake that failed to turn into a ring, that’s too bad, it was a cool concept. 

The Precious Snowflake was caused by some hacking by ‘Puter and GorT.

• The interview of Maria Sharapova was a great way to see a little bit of Sochi up close and personal. 
• Did anyone notice how un-crowded the exterior shots were? Barcelona was packed when Dr. J. was there. Olympic park in Atlanta was pretty crowded according to Dr. J.’s intel on the ground at the time.
• Dr. J.’s biggest recurring complaint about NBC coverage is that it is heavily edited and packaged for low information voter. If everything is going to be pre-packaged, pack it into the the pre specified DVR window. Dr. J.’s DVR recorded it. Dr. J. missed the torch lighting because y’all ran over the time in the listings. Sure Dr. J. could have added an hour or two, but why should he have to for a non-live event?
• NBC left out a bunch of stuff you saw online.
• Putin’s girlfriend’s a babe.
• Of course Russia glossed over the communist period. It was the ugliest part of their history (well, the Scythians were pretty bad too). Nevertheless it failed. 
• At the end of the day, the Russians have a bad-ass national anthem. 
• Team Ice Skating is pretty cool. Kinda the MarioKart of ice skating.
• It’s nice to see faux-lesbo-pop duo t.A.T.u get some work. 

Dr. J.