How China prepares for the Olympics

I was just visiting one of my favorite blogs, After Atalanta, and after I made a comment on a post about Chinese women athletes and the Olympics, it occurred to me that maybe a lot of people are not familiar with one of China's "preparation for the Olympics" projects: Officials have gone door to door and killed about 50,000 "superfluous" pet dogs, beating them to death in front of their people.

There has not been a peep out of the IOC about this. Or the U.S. government. Business as usual. I thought it was the most disgusting news story of 2006. The Chinese government will rave about its "successful" Olympic hosting, I'm sure.