The funniest thing I read today
Mayor Richard Daley’s administration believes it has cleaned up the city’s corrupt hiring system and early next year will seek to end court oversight of its personnel practices, his top lawyer told aldermen Thursday.
Mara Georges said she plans to tell a federal judge that the city is in “substantial compliance” with the decades-long Shakman decree, the legal threshold for getting out from under court control.
Richie Daley has cleaned up Chicago’s corruption? I know lawyers are paid to stretch the truth some, but Mara Georges just got a nose longer than the Chicago lakefront.
Who is Proinsias de Rossa?
In the Irish Independent, David Quinn attacks the Irish left for its years of pro-Soviet agitation.
There has been… Read More…
On not embarrassing the Scandinavians
Unlike the peace prize, which is pretty silly, the Nobel prize in economics, funded by the Swedish central… Read More…
The bad and the good of Europe
Today is the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, and the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,… Read More…
A great piece in the Onion
The Onion runs a really funny piece saying that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, apparently for… Read More…
Perverts’ defense association
Tom Shales of the Washington Post joins a perverts’ defense group. Specifically, he defends pervert and cheat David… Read More…
Tommy Tiernan, Revisited
In the midst of a very busy weekend, I missed a piece by Eoghan Harris on the ugly… Read More…
The 1960s
Mark Steyn notes a sad story about John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. If true, it… Read More…
The fact free Guardian
The Guardian runs an editorial on Israel and Palestine that is mostly mindless two-state advocacy, but it begins… Read More…
Rethinking Mary Robinson
I am, as readers of this blog know, not a fan of Mary Robinson. Here is an extra… Read More…