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Let the games begin!

Drinking games, that is.

Print out these official 2008 Summer Olympics Drinking Game Rules, find a comfortable seat on your couch, and crack open an Olympic-sponsored Budweiser or Tsingtao. You're gonna need it.

Cheap toil builds Beijing Olympics

Olympics all work and no pay for migrant workers

For most of the construction workers, the Olympic projects are just another job. Most of them earn only $4 a day. They often work from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., then from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 or 7 p.m. Most are required to pay for their own meals, which consume as much as a third of their income. Almost all of them lack any health insurance or insurance against injuries or death, even though China has the highest rate of fatal occupational accidents in the world.

The Five Friendlies

Like the Five Olympic Rings from which they draw their color and inspiration, the Five Friendlies will serve as the Official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace -- and blessings from China -- to children all over the world.

Cute, aren't they? I wonder what the Five Friendlies have to say about mass executions, choking air pollution, repression of Tibet and the suppression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China. Probably not too much.