No Doubt About It — London 2012 will have quite a time topping that!

We break format, to wander “Off-Topic” (as we are wont to do, about once every three months or so) here — and simply note: if you weren’t amazed, tonight — you mustn’t have an EKG pulse:

Forget the politics for a moment — that was quite the post-card for the world’s most-populous unified economy.

And, if you’ve ever competed, at any level, you couldn’t help but feel the butterflies — as each of the nation’s athletes entered the Bird’s Nest. . . Wow.

And. . . we’re underway. Just. Wow.