I scrammed out of London a few days before the
Olympics began, but after getting an earful on what the locals make of
it. On the whole, the residents of that great city would rather the
honor of hosting the world’s most disruptive sporting event had gone to
some joint that needs the publicity more — Alma Ata, or Ouagadougou, or
Oakland. In 21st-century London, traffic moves at fewer miles per
hour than it did before the internal-combustion engine was invented
without the added complication of fleets of Third World thug bureaucrats
and the permanent floating crap game of transnationalist freeloaders
being dumped on its medieval street plan.
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My younger daughter called me about this column, because of the Guys and Dolls reference - needless to say, this is totally stuck in my head.
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