How about this for a bang? - Executives at B.C. Hydro and ICBC ordered thousands of tickets to the 2010 opening and closing ceremonies, gold-medal hockey games, figure-skating and curling finals and dozens of other A-list events at the Games AT PUBLIC EXPENSE. - The two Crown corporations requested nearly 3,800 tickets to some of the most sought-after events of the Games. - The corporations REFUSED TO SAY exactly how many tickets they received citing "trade secrecy" laws." - B.C. Hydro and ICBC are using RATE-PAYERS' MONEY to buy their own pool of prime tickets: The men's hockey final and the best skating events. - But VANOC just wants us all to bend over and take this corporate cornholing while concentrating on the more important things in life like a torch and some colored uniforms. - The disgusting behavior of the large corporate media over the last two days demonstrates to me just how successfully they can play the general population like a Stradivarius violin. - "With a flourish befitting the unveiling of an art sculpture or a long-lost master ..." blah blah blah - OMG - PLEASE make the hurt go away.