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On the one hand Arnold Kling is right. It is very unwise to believe that if we just elect the right people our public policy problems will be solved. Our political system and our media culture work together to ensure that the weasels will win, regardless of what party they’re in. The process creates the [...]

I was one of the first fans on the Rex Grossman bandwagon. And I’m not really sure that I’m ready to get off. If this were any team in any season, I think he would develop into a fine QB. The problem is he’s not on ANY team, he’s on a Bears team that is [...]

Steve Rhodes is attacking Steve Huntley … unfairly … over his column in the Sun-Times today. It seems the mere suggestion that self-righteous indignation over global warming is unjustified sends the self-righteously indignant into a tailspin of more and more self-righteous indignity. Rhodes finishes by insulting Huntley’s newspaper … and proving my point.
In fact, Huntley’s [...]

I took some video of the storm on my way to work using my Sony CyberShot which records pathetically low-res videos. I was planning on posting them as soon as I got here … but dang’it (a southern word maybe) if I didn’t forget the USB adapter. I will have to post them later I [...]

Todd Stroger was put on the ballot for Cook County president without a vote. BUt this is nothing new, Congressman Dan Lipinski is son of former congressman Bill Lipinski who resigned his seat after the primary vote.
Now the Tribune reports that Commissioner Steele is retiring and will bequeeth her seat to son Robert. She even [...]

Like the law that dictates the order of succession. Here’s a pretty good case for changing it.

Make Promises, Break Promises, Get Elected Anyway. From the Trib:
Memo to Mayor Richard M. Daley, U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Barack Obama, Cook County Board President Bobbie Steele … :
That didn’t take long, did it? Todd Stroger, whom you each touted as a “progressive” or a “reformer” when you endorsed him for Cook County Board [...]

I haven’t posted anything here for a while. I’ve had family in town and been busier than usual at work … but this is definitely worth posting. Harold Henderson (a Chicago Reader columnist and blogger) emailed me an article from The Atlantic about the future of newspapers. The author, Michael Hirschorn has more wrong the [...]

I had the privilege of meeting Milton this summer. He was an incredibly short man. He was so short I remember being very embarrassed that I had even noticed. I thought it a poetic justice that his legacy would cast shadows on us all. Indeed the shadow has fallen over me today.

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The aftermath of an election is just as important as the election itself. The losing party is sent scrambling for explanations of what went wrong and embedded in each explanation is a theory about what the party must do different in the future. The importance of interpreting a loss can’t be understated. One misinterpretation [...]