Good Quote, Bad Quote

First the good. Lebron, describing Sicily, writes, "The young people look like they're from Rome, the old people look like they're from New Jersey."  

Now for the bad. Alex, describing charter cities writes, "we shouldn't think of what happened in 1997 as China taking over Hong Kong but rather as the final element of Hong Kong taking over China."

An open and shut case of from the sublime to the ridiculous.