I'm having a quick beer on Queen St. W. The bartender, upon learning I'm a journalist, asked if I'd been out covering Caribana.

"No, I'm an online journalist," I told her. "We sit in the dark and wait for all the troubles of the world to come to us."

In that sense, I told her our jobs were very similar.

She laughed. :)

Geoffrey York, the Globe and Mail's China correspondent, has a sobering article on how seriously China takes winning gold at the upcoming Summer Olympics in Beijing -- and the price that some are paying.

But apparently not available online at globeandmail.com.

Pity.

Addendum

An earlier version of this post had Ms. Southey's first name spelled incorrectly. It has since been corrected.