You tell 'em

Finally, somebody gives former and now late IOC Chief Extortionist Juan Antonio Samaranch the obituary he deserves. Not unexpectedly that person is Charles Pierce:

What we have here is a dead guy who had far too much of a sweet-tooth for actual fascists, who fancied himself royalty, who presided over the single most corrupt institution in the history of organized sports -- and one of the most corrupt institutions ever devised by man, at least since we stopped electing Borgia popes -- until the way that institution did business overflowed so garishly that a command decision was made to transform the International Olympic Committee from a vehicle of international bribery to a vehicle of old-fashioned international crony capitalism.