The MTA, of course I mean. Fiscally responsible fellows that they aren't, they've decided to take the low bid and let the Jets build their parking-lot-free football stadium. Personally I don't anticipate the traffic headaches other people do because I don't think anyone will come. Why go to a football game if you can't have a tailgate party? Better to stay home and sit on the sofa with chips and salsa.

No, I'm just pissed off because this stadium, which will be the hugest white elephant of the last fifty years, is also the biggest featherbedding boondoggle in New York since the days of Boss Tweed. Peter Kalikow, who if he weren't likely to sue my ass I might call as corrupt and cold-blooded a crook as ever there was, and his cronies, whom I might, if I weren't afraid of a lawsuit, refer to as a merry band of fare-raising, asset-hiding, union-busting, double-dipping pocket-stuffers, have highjacked the NYC Olympic bid (imho, a damn stupid idea in itself) and made their get-rich-quick scheme indispensible to it.

The joke, of course, is we may get this jackass stadium, but we won't get the Olympics. With the way world opinion feels about the US right now? You see any of those European committee members voting for us? There isn't enough money in the NYC2012 budget to buy them off. Unless their real plan is to stick the US with the security and transportation nightmare, and the bottomless money sink, having the Olympics in NY will create. If that's their clever plan, these MTA birds are walking right into it, and dragging the rest of us, kicking and screaming, behind them.