Tim Johnson writs in his China Rises blog:
A couple of Olympics jokes are making the rounds in Beijing.
First one is a riff on the fact that while many Chinese are extraordinarily proud of the Olympics, they are also put out. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were sent home from Beijing before the games began as constructions sites shut down. Many factories are temporarily closed. Lots of people are forced to work overtime. The nation is jittery that something may go wrong.
