James Morrow doesn't want his old home town to suffer the fate of his new one. Here's money shot from his new aritcle in ReasonOnline:
New York is already a world capital of everything from finance to fashion. Does it really need a billion-dollar boondoggle like the Olympics blowing through town, leaving its architectural detritus around the five boroughs and beyond? I doubt it. And considering that they already have to endure the United Nations, with its scofflaw diplomatic-plate parkers and corrupt feel-good internationalism, it's pretty clear that New Yorkers are already doing enough for global understanding.
There's more. Read the whole thing, as our blog-free Prof would say.
I've wondered about this before. You know, if I lived in New York, I don't think I'd spend even ten seconds complaining about illegal parking by diplomats.
I'd spend that ten seconds flattening some tires or something nastier. A little of that activity by the citizens of New York against international scofflaws would fix the problem one way or another pretty quickly.
