Dear Olympics, please stop. Love, Patrick Teacher

I have a dream - that one day, the winter Olympics will quietly disappear, and nobody will convince themselves they care about a triple axle ever again. 

The winter Olympics should really just do everyone a favor and vanish. I don't mean this year's winter Olympics. i mean all winter Olympics. They would be like that plastic toy that fell behind the refrigerator. Sure, every once in a while you'd wonder what happened to it, but then you'd move on to more important issues. Like what color socks to wear for the day. 

So first, I'll get on my high horse and point out that hosting the Olympics, any Olympics actually, is economically disastrous for the country foolish enough to do so. Turns out that hosting the Olympics is incredibly expensive with very little economic payoff.

But perhaps even worse because this is counter to the entire point of having the Olympics in the first place, the winter Olympics is boring. These sports are not sports. They are games. While curling looks like a lot of fun, I do not want to watch people brush ice on national television. 

The next time a government wants to spend 15 billion dollars, how about they just go ahead and buy everyone a steak dinner instead? Not only would it make everyone happier, you would have a few billion dollars left and could get dessert too.