The Atlantic magazine’s thoughts on Kelly’s Irish forebears. I believe this is The Atlantic before Jeffrey Goldberg editorship. I’m not sure. It’s hard to tell.

As a knuckle dragging white ethnic Chicago westsider, nothing pisses me off more than a New York City elitist of letters telling me to be nice to gun toting white trash racist fuckshits in the hinterlands. Even Kristof last Sunday was trying to get us subscribers to lend a hand to those fucks.
What the hell is going…

I bet this guy has a thought on this gun issue: Stephen A. Feinberg, CEO of Cerberus Capital Management. He’s a Trump guy and gun fetishist. He also apparently wants to privatize much of the military.

In the effort to toughen up and coarsen us subscribers, it looks like NYT finally found the edge too far. We still have Brett Stephens to call us all a bunch of liberal pusswads, though.

Grad students at U of C should have joined International Brotherhood of Operating Engineers (or its new unisex name) local 150. Hedge fund managers’ business school vanity buildings and the Barack Obama library won’t “push, pull, pump or lift” themselves. Or put a big inflatable rat in front of the Becker Friedman…

McArdle is like every lace curtain I grew up on who tried to pass as wasp, despite father’s money coming from government largess both inside and out. She’s not shanty, per se, just pig in the parlor. Jesus Christ, don’t you New Yorkers police your own? I’d prefer having your wastewater treatment sludge dumped on my…

The sand and gravel owner will be fine, assuming he/she is sourcing gravel to build that seawall called the Ike Dike near Houston and sand to frack the the Permian and Eagle Ford shale/tight rock oil and gas fields. Most likely he sold out to Vulcan or Cemex and is wintering in Costa Rica.

I thought Bill and Melinda Gates, Doris Duke, Robert Wood and all the other foundations advertising on NPR had healthcare figured out.

While Trump is thinking a military parade worthy of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” - it will just end up like a walk down the streets of the village of Skokie, Illinois circa 1977:

Last time I saw John Mahoney was at the counter of Louie’s Grill in Forest Park, IL (next to Oak Park). We sat next to each other. He had an omelette. I had two eggs over easy. He nodded hello. I said hello back. That was it as far as our exchange - it being morning at a diner - talking is hard. The news of his…

On the way up, it’s gangster capitalists. On the way down, it’s nerd quants as short sellers. Koch v. Mercer. The system works. That was a joke.

She’s a blessing for democrats. Rauner woo’d a bunch of wealthy suburban democrats to vote for him in 2014, allowing him to win. Ives will pull the suburban Chicago christianists and downstate knuckle draggers who constantly fall off and get back on a turnip truck away from Rauner. Limousine liberals will come back to…

Much better public/private car v. society art than this:

Pruitt and his entourage seem interested in closing superfund sites and delisting them by the old “risk away” remedial action. It’s hard to tell since his meetings are held within the cone of silence.

More typical New York centric bullshit. WNYC ain’t more fucked up with wealthy white liberal bullshit than Chicago’s WBEZ.

Are scouts lost in the woods getting asianeering badges now? I’m not up to speed on the correct nomenclature.

Really well done.

Let’s look at realpolitik as it applies to the primary economic sector (natural resources exploitation and agriculture), folks. At least environmental advocacy won’t be relegated always to after the fact complaining. As in, ‘Why are those mines and well fields there? I thought people cared about preserving nature.”

“Fuck Sweden” - my grandfather after his father got kicked out and he got stuck living with an asshole of a relative/family friend before coming to the US as a ten year old. His father was an agitator in the budding labor movement circa 1910 (Swedish Trade Union Confederation). Sweden’s economy was controlled by the…

Yes, most of US farming is family owned - owned by aging multi generational white families with lots of farmland acreage per family. This next generation will see a great deal of family farms transition out of families to either other operating families or to farmland REITs or to Saudi Princes, maybe. NC is moving…