tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6800754266735885133..comments2024-03-28T06:41:07.968-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Muhammad Ali was at home in ChicagoNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-63574530661466530772016-06-05T16:14:15.606-05:002016-06-05T16:14:15.606-05:00He was a fine boxer and an engaging personality, h...He was a fine boxer and an engaging personality, his trademark boastfulnesss rendered rather charming by an occasional acknowlegement of limitations. Once challenged on a matter of fact he said something Donald Trump, another world class braggart, could never bring himself to say: "I said I'm the greatest. I aint't never said I'm the smartest." <br /><br />And speaking of the latter, I find, returning from a relatively Trump-free sojourn in a foreign land, find that what when I left seemed only a bad dream has become a legitimate American nightmare. My hosts, being Iralian and thus experienced in the matter of megalomaniac "Supreme Leaders," said with some sympathy, "He is your Berlusconi." (Tact prevented me from going even further and evoking the memory of Il Duce.)<br /><br />They are religious, as I am not very, so on parting I asked that they pray we may be spared.<br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-9651548753554560132016-06-05T15:23:05.469-05:002016-06-05T15:23:05.469-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12857840826894504436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-38988558445297717992016-06-05T11:20:02.431-05:002016-06-05T11:20:02.431-05:00Thanks for this.
For some reason, the Tribune ran...Thanks for this.<br /><br />For some reason, the Tribune ran Bernie Lincicome's column on Ali's last fight. It was full of his trademark gratuitous nastiness, including calling the Bahamas, where the fight took place, "a junky little country." Reminded me why I disliked the man so much when he was in Chicago.<br /><br />Bitter ScribeUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12857840826894504436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-1945312193370433762016-06-05T06:43:48.512-05:002016-06-05T06:43:48.512-05:00Oh the irony. In KY they mourn their native son no...Oh the irony. In KY they mourn their native son now but at one time, though he had already won a bout, wouldn't let him sit in certain restaurants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com