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ZZMike
July 9th, 2010 | 3:00 am

It was a forgone conclusion. If he’d gone to New York, he would have owed several million $$ in taxes. Florida? None. He followed other sensible high-wealth people like Tiger Woods to a more sensible area.

Ed
July 9th, 2010 | 7:03 am

As a Clevelander desperate to be assured that there is something more important than LBJ, I was disconcerted to see this pop up at the head of my “First Things” blog. Nunc Dimitis…

Feeney
July 9th, 2010 | 7:36 am

Only a 10 year old boy would be interested in this nonsense. This guy needs his own Superhero comic book.

Nicholas Frankovich
July 9th, 2010 | 10:42 pm

It’s a big sad drama here in the Forest City, as you can imagine. I’m in the minority who wanted him to leave. Strongly wanted him to leave — and to take his Cowboy and Yankee hats with him. So I’m happy and relieved about the outcome. It’s been a bit of good news in what’s been a hectic week for me.

The ESPN reality show or whatever that was last night was professional-sports decadence taken to a new level. This is Roman Empirish, it really is. The Romans had some vague, idealized memory of Greek athletic games — the Olympic and others — as an august institution, but over the centuries it had become professionalized. By the time the Romans were doing games the whole thing had become bloated and disgusting. We’ve followed the same trajectory from the
nineteenth century to the twenty-first.