Patriotism Is An Olympic Event  Lydia Sargent  Welcome to the
Satire Hotel, a place where the unpatriotic are in jail,
suspected terrorists have been shipped to an island off the
coast or bombed back to the stone age, and patriotism is an
Olympic event.  Yes, ever since that fateful day in September,
we gals at the Satire Hotel have been trying to figure out how
to best express our patriotism, no matter what. After watching
the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City,
we knew what we had to do: we had to lobby for patriotism as an
Olympic event. How could we do this? By holding our own
Patriotic Olympics for the Gals at Hotel Satire.  By the way, if
you missed the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, let me recap.
They began with shots of New York City—the Statue of Liberty,
the missing twin towers of the World Trade Center, grounds zero,
a moving voiceover. I know you’re asking what that has to do
with the Olympics, which are supposed to be above politics, and
the answer is who knows, who care