Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Burris's plot thickens
Things keep getting worse for Rollie. He's gone from mediocre and mockable but squeaky clean to iffy to typical pay-to-play Chicago pol in quite a short time. Of course he won't resign, and he probably won't opt out of reelection. The man is beyond shame--just check out his prebuilt masoleum. The only way to get him out is to primary him or expel him. I suspect that one or the other will be occurring soon.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio
- Lev
- East Bay, California, United States
- Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.