We all know that hosting the Olympics is a financial disaster–Montreal is still paying for the 1976 games, for crying out loud. An editorial in today’s Washington Examiner offers an interesting suggestion: We should stop moving the games around every four years. Picking a permanent location would let some city and/or country build an appropriate infrastructure and perhaps figure out a way to make the games profitable. The odds of this happening, of course, are slim to none: It would be impossible to agree to a single site, there’s a huge national prestige factor attached to hosting the games (which is why Beijing pursued them so hard, for instance), the people who bid for the games are usually not the ones who actually pay for it, and various officials probably enjoy the junkets and bribes that come hand in hand with the bidding. But it’s a sensible proposal.