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21 Jan 2009 0929H

Inaugural musings

Call me racist, but, I used to think it improbable that a black man from the South side of Chicago could be elected president, but, then, we elected Harold Washington for mayor, and then, Barack rose to power, even with considerable resistance from within the black establishment here, first, to the senate, and now, it [...]

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23 Dec 2008 0909H

Did I say how much I hate my commute?

The thing is, even on a good day, it’s 45 mins. But today with few cars on the road, still wound up being 1:20. Why? Snow. A street was shut down, diverting traffic. People driving slow. Add this to the two hours I spent getting home last night.

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04 Nov 2008 2329H

But tonight, we celebrate

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to [...]

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21 Oct 2008 1336H

Actually, Mr. Mayor, you are responsible

Jon Burge is in federal custody. Regarding this, Hizzoner is quoted below, by da Sun Times.
But the mayor said he feels no accountability whatsoever for Burge’s decades-long reign of terror.
“I just don’t…I was state’s attorney. I had 700, 800 prosecutors under me. It would be like [holding] you [accountable] for some of the headlines you [...]

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20 Sep 2008 0812H

The museum fire

Several years ago, working with the emerging Chinatown Museum Foundation, I remember telling them, regarding the building they were about to inherit, that they should establish a relationship with the national archives, or with the Chicago History Museum, or a local university or college, and not store anything of historic value inside that building in [...]

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18 Sep 2008 1326H

I read the news today, oh boy

From the Sun-Times this morning:

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15 Sep 2008 0918H

I have a modest proposal

Been saying this for years now. Let’s just catch ‘em and eat ‘em.

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01 Sep 2008 0716H

By the by

Kudos to Chicago NPR’s Ben Calhoun for a fantastic story about the Illinois Dems group-hug last week at the DNC. Love fest, cynics might call it politics by other means, whatever. Great story.

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24 Aug 2008 1246H

Whoa

Fatburger AND Sonic coming to town?
Why yes. Re: Sonic, quoth the Trib:
Her son told her to come but he gave her the wrong address and she’s not clairvoyant and he’s an air traffic controller and that’s a hard job and she first tried Sonic when he was training in Oklahoma and she loves, [...]

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07 Aug 2008 2112H

Chicago ain’t ready for reform?

Can’t say I’m surprised, politically motivated hiring still happens all the time. You think this stuff doesn’t matter to you? It costs you, Chicagoans and Cook County residents. That’s the kind of so-called “affirmative action” we don’t need, because if people are hired on the basis of patronage, and are not the most qualified staff, [...]

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