The few, the proud, the ‘flame attendants’

I know the whole root of the China Olympics controversy is human rights, which is is very, very important and all, but I can’t help but chuckle at the woes of the Olympic torch as it traverses the globe. Protesters have been trying to extinguish the torch everywhere it goes. They’re expressing outrage over how China, the 2008 host of the summer Olympics, has oppressed citizens in Tibet among other human rights violations. They had to put the thing out three times in France to prevent the protesters from putting it out (don’t ask me, that’s just how they do things in France).

Anyway, everywhere the torch goes there are hippies leaping out of bushes to put it out. Today the torch is going through the hippie capital city of San Francisco and everyone is pretty sure the torch is going to bite it. I saw on the news today that China has recruited a special force of “flame attendants” from its central police force to guide the torch through San Francisco.

I’ll let you make your own jokes about this one.