Well, Mayor Tom Menino (D- Smallville) can add another notch to his belt: Niketown has folded like origami.

As previously noted, T-Shirt Tommy objected to a window display at the Newbury Street Niketown, accusing the retailer of promoting drug use. Originally NikeTown resisted, but today’s Boston Herald reports that there’s a new window display replacing the dopey t-shirts.

Mayoral Victory Lap:

“It’s good news that Nike has removed the display,” said Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Menino. “It’s inappropriate and we will continue to make sure that all displays in our city do not promote the use of drugs. It is unacceptable and we’re happy they agree.”

Except they don’t. They’re just afraid the place will be crawling with Menino’s Municipal Minions looking to bust them for dust-bunny violations or some such.

The Boston Globe, meanwhile, is one step behind – it’s still arguing in an editorial that Menino is irony-deficient and doesn’t get the real message of the t-shirts (overspend on a t-shirt?).

Plus ça change and etc.