谁是白痴?

美国职棒大联盟和华盛顿特区议会之间的交配仪式,说得委婉点,是很奇怪的。周二的投票在议会中——6票赞成、4票反对、3票弃权——似乎是批准新体育场公共融资的倒数第二步。如果被拒绝,就等于要求MLB虚张声势,这将是一个有趣的结果。如果委员会说“对不起,价格太高了。”但这里有一些土地,我们将投资于公共交通,这样人们就可以去看奥运会了。”Would MLB pack up the team and move it across the Potomac? Probably, but they'd risk exposing their base motives, and the potential political ramifications might be costly.

专栏作家托姆Loverro用另一种方式看待这个场景。投票让塞利格不用宣布自己是“白痴”就能到达城里。The mayor and the council chair don't have to walk around town wearing "idiot signs." But for having the courage to state the facts in this political maelstrom, economist Brad Humphreys gets Loverro's idiot award. Humphreys knows as much about the economic impact of stadiums as anyone in the country. But to Loverro he's a "clown," a "pencil necked geek" with "no clue" about "the economic benefits" of sports stadiums. And in the ultimate put-down, he works at the University of伊利诺斯州

我不知道该如何看待报纸专栏作家。他们的手艺也许能吸引群众,但无知是不能拿来炫耀的。对于我们这些费心去思考体育场补贴问题的人来说,洛夫罗已经宣布自己是一个大联盟的白痴。