Joe Queenan always has been one of my favorite satirists, and today’s piece on bailing out luxury skyboxes does not disappoint. After all, what would our great cities be without the professional sports teams that represent them? (At least for a while, before they move and stink up the joint somewhere else.) He writes: Proponents of the moral-hazard theory will argue that if you bail out the Orioles, you will then have to bail out the Pirates, and if you bail out the Pirates you will soon have no alternative but to bail out the Memphis Grizzlies and the Nashville … Continue reading Joe Queenan’s Modest Proposal