Mariotti is an easy target at the best of times, but his abrupt departure from the Chicago Sun-Times, right after they paid his way to China for the Olympics, left his most distinguished now-former colleague more than a little out of joint. And no one writes a screw-you letter like Roger Ebert.
I stayed away for a couple of weeks, but I don't have a history anymore either. Has my years-long slate been wiped clean?