Maybe Scott Pruitt’s EPA can get Andy Revkin, formerly of NYT Dot Earth and now with propublica, to help frame the debate. He’s a middle child and always looking for the sensible center. If you’re working in the communication biz and by all accounts hyper articulate, you don’t want to be rewarded with anything less…

As long as the VA privatization plan goes better than Chicago public schools janitorial (1), veterans may be fine. We spend about $200 billion a year on the VA so that’s just sitting there for government contractors to move into the health space. Booz Allen & Hamilton Applied Health, maybe? Conway VA Public Image…

Must be the heiress of Sunshine Carpet Cleaners money:

If you’re going to make America great again by reshoring heavy industry, you gotta put as many workers back into the shadows. Nothing breaks unions and MAGA voter’s spirits faster than undocumented and/or permanent status guest workers running the hearth of a basic oxygen blast furnace instead of them. Wilbur Ross of…

Oh come on, you gotta let a little leeway for good old big city three I’s ribbing. Christ, the greatest city in the world, Chicago, Illinois, has an outer borough NYC Irish cop running against our home grown “God is with Us” for mayor. If Gerry McCarthy (insert shamrock here) should beat his honor Mayor Rahm Emanuel…

Oh god, here comes the “gun control is killing our jobs” talking point on various media outlets. It’ll be like how environmental protection laws and regulations killed midnight dumping of hazardous waste jobs.

Jesus god, the joke is dangling like a dingleberry covered in santorum:

Corpulent middle age white guy with goatee dressed like a citizen soldier isn’t a good look. Who hires these guys? I mean, how many assistant buyers and subcontracts administrator for military contractors and police and ICE union reps do we really need at this point in time? Back in my day, old white guys with no…

Donald Trump (germanic: Drumpf) has a thing for Brigitte Macron - which is odd given age appropriateness and her seemingly gallic not slavic origins. America first has always been about an us versus them. The us being the basket of deplorables - the them is anyone outside the basket who would add color or a different…

I think it was Everett Dirksen who said that. No, wait, he said, “a billion here - a billion there, pretty soon we’re talking real money here.” Maybe it was Captain America. Good on you and your son.

These kids are so awesome. Chicagoland is sending a contingent of school kids ranging from inner city neighborhoods who themselves are exposed daily to gun violence to kids from nice schools in leafy suburbs.

St. Louis metro east of the Mississippi: why every major environmental consulting and engineering firm has a St. Louis office. Well, that and Times Beach and many other in state reasons.

I’m old. I want a president younger than me, goddamnit. (But don’t think for a second I like you kidz, you little fucks.) Biden and ilk were born at the beginning of the baby boom. I was born the last year of the baby boom (arguably). The year prior to the pill coming out on the market. Jesus Christ democrats -…

The Atlantic wasn’t happy at all with Irish and Chinese immigrants back in the 19th century. I’m sure that ethos has carried on with hispanics presently.  

East St. Louis is just south of the old Wood River Oil & Refining Company co-founded by Fred C. Koch in 1940. His sons Charles and David rename the company that pops started as Koch Industries. Koch progeny then use money saved on things like not reporting an 800,000 barrel oil spill near East St. Louis and other…

She’ll be a nice respite between Viagra, Flomax, and Depends commercials. CBS viewer median age is about 60. Millenials don’t like to be burdened with old people and expertise. Youthquake!

The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;
‘T was half-past twelve, and (what do you think!)
Nor one nor t’ other had slept a wink!
The old Dutch clock and the Chinese plate
Appeared to know as sure as fate
There was going to be a terrible spat.
(I was n’t there; I simply state
What was told to me…

Add: his parents sold Amway shit. Isn’t Betsy Devos Amway money?

I did landscaping in Lake Forest in my teens. Nice place. Many nice folks. I’m sure the old big house was torn down and replaced by a new bigger house since then. It was the setting for “Ordinary People” staring Mary Tyler Moore - so there’s that.

Probably should emphasize this issue as Trump’s FEMA. FEMA has pissed off republicans for at least a generation. Gutierrez  is a lame duck at this point. He’ll have a foundation to which he’ll funnel PR government money soon. This government agency fecklessness is by design, btw. Just look at EPA under Scott Pruitt.