According to the N.Y. Times (Massachusetts Mayor Is Sorry, Sep. 5, 2013, at p. A17) Boston’s Mayor Thomas M. Menino has allowed as how the solution to Detroit’s problem is to “blow up the place and start all over.” Ah, but this is America, folks, the place that has enshrined freedom of speech in the First Amendment to the constitution, which is supposed to protect speakers even when their utterances give offense. But as all readers of the American press know, giving offense trumps the First Amendment, so in order to keep his job, the speaker must apologize for saying what he had every right to say. So it appears that Mayor Menino did that.
There. All better now, Your Honor?