Sad git that I am, I still follow news about Olympic bids, and google alerted me to this story this morning. The boston globe is patting the city on the back for ‘dodging the bullet’ of the olympics a year ago today. I must say that strikes me as odd: if you opposed hosting the olympics in your city, fair enough, but why mark the anniversary? Why point out that a year ago you chose not to do something, instead of just forgetting about it? The article makes it out to be some kind of great victory, a slap in the face to the olympics; but I still think, as I wrote here, that in turning down the olympics boston chose to remain normal. It’s as if boston’s still justifying the decision to itself – why else bring it up, and why be so dismissive of an event other cities around the world are fighting tooth and claw to host? I think this is quite telling of the bostonian – and American – mentality.