ON LOSING THE OLYMPICS

Writing about Team Barry’s presentation was to the International Olympic Committee:

[I]t’s unpatriotic not to be heartbroken that a billion-dollar graft opportunity for Richard Daley and his slimy cronies — which even Chicagoans were evenly split on, mind you — got flushed down the toilet. The fact is, it’s only because the stakes for the country were so low and Obama’s ego so overweening that an “unforced error” this dumb can be laughed at.

Given that the president used to be a law professor, an observation routinely attributed to former Harvard professor Henry Kissinger may appropriate: "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."