State media in China called Tuesday’s torch-lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece “a perfect start on the road to gold.” If by “perfect start,” they meant utter chaos, then yeah, great start guys. Or maybe the “road to gold” is some hellish unpaved pathway that leads off a cliff into a canyon of fire. But the lighting of the torch was marred (or made more interesting) by a pro-Tibet protester who ran behind the president of Beijing Organizing Committee and waved a black flag that called for a boycott of the Games. The ceremony marked the commencement of the 130-day, 85,100-mile torch relay through 5 continents and up Mount Everest that ends August 8th in Beijing, the first day of the Games. So pretty much, if the next 130 days are as “perfect” as the first, we’re looking at a 130-day, 85,100-mile tour of unabated humiliation for China through 5 continents and up Mount Everest. With “perfect” little pro-Tibet protesters at every stop. Not in the video below is the Tibetan woman who, after the flag incident, doused herself in red paint and lay in the road blocking the torch relay. How perfect.

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