This column may have one of the most memorable opening stanzas ever:
"The Rock Cats-to-Hartford deal is such a Rabelaisian feast of knavery, greed, deceit and commonplace stupidity that you almost can't use it to teach a specific lesson about government. Because nothing about the process has been worthy or truthful, it's hard to zero in on one specific failing.
It's like trying to figure out the one place where the Crusades or Watergate went wrong."
Having just attended a game at the New Britain stadium, a evening that was affordable and fun, I can't believe that a larger, more expensive stadium in the middle of a city notorious for its crime statistics is going to draw the massive crowds that locals pols expect, or serve as the keystone for a "revitalized" downtown.
But, what do I know?