As the 2010 Winter Olympics draw near, a lot of experts -- including political pundits, sports commentators, high-school debating teams and one particularly opinionated chimp who writes a blog from the Calgary zoo -- are questioning some of our assumptions about the upcoming games in Vancouver.
Me, too.
Some people wonder if all that money could be better spent on other things, like housing the homeless, feeding the poor or building portable jetpacks.
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