The Atlantic could always try edgy thought provoking political satire a la 19th century Puck Magazine.

Sure the comment is a bit scattered shot and loopy. I’m not familiar with expected comment section tone here on Splinter. It seems breezy, which is cool, man.

I don’t mean to make this about beer, but fuck it I will. Hickenlooper and a fellow petroleum geologist started the Wynkoop Brewery in Denver back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Everybody was like “wonderful craft beer, yea!” As those motherfuckers Subaru outbacked down from Boulder. Craft beer sucks ass. Just give…

Trump might still be reeling after Mayor Daley at permitting lopped 10 stories off Trump Tower along the Chicago River - putting it below super tall skyscraper status - and the third tallest dick-like-edifice in the city known as “Hog Butcher to the World.”

Mueller’s investigation has been hermetically sealed throughout. A grain of salt is needed. Maybe Trump rage tweets got to the Washington Post. That yuge Amazon Web Services contract and prospective second headquarters location could be in play. “Anywhere but Chicago is fine and preferably near my properties, Jeff.” -…

Didn’t Israelites already slaughter the Philistines and chase out the remaining from the holy land? Oops, sorry, this post is about Palestinians not Philistines. Maybe the newly branded Cool House of Saud can help Israel with its troubles going forward.

Checkout these wonderful statistics from Philanthropy Roundtable (a charity, too).

I’m making toast, minding my own business, and turn on NPR. Suddenly like the sound a jammed toaster makes trying to pop out a burning bagel I hear vocal frying uptalking millennial speak out the radio speaker:

If I was a tech billionaire’s spawn and my trust fund comes from search engine advertising dollars, I’d intern at SCL and suggest Cambridge Analytica hook up with Palantir. Oh wait, that has already been done. Sophia Schmidt, the daughter of Wendy and Eric Schmidt, had that selfless publicly spirited idea. Maybe she…

First law of free market driven techno solutions oriented third way environmental communications - “when the going gets tough, talk about sea turtles.” Second law, keep mum while the whole deregulation thing is going on.” Treating paint fume exhaust on the Model 3 line ain’t cheap. 

You’re probably more right than me.

The practice of private equity law is the most profitable practice there is. Except maybe defending an oil company after a major oil spill or doing the fine print for a petro state’s oil business IPO.

This kind of falls under the old saw “people who live in glass houses, shouldn’t throw stones.” Or people who govern New Jersey, gut its environmental agency and defang its enforcement capabilities shouldn’t be too surprised when an oil and gas state AG turned US EPA head is doing exactly that at the federal level.…

To be fair, that’s more than the cost of a house next to the refinery in Bartlesville, OK. You know, that housing complex sitting on top of oily tank bottoms sludge and ever expanding subsurface lake of hydrocarbons. Pruitt’s data driven scientists don’t know where possibly vapors in the house could emanate from.

Whoever you are, you’re my spirit animal. When you say blue line, of course mean the Forest Park leg servicing us wonderful west siders. The only side that matters. Anybody living in Bucktown through Jefferson Park can walk for for all I care, freak’n jagoffs. Sorry. That was uncalled for.

I’ll forgive Elon Musk and all his wagan-of-shit salesmanship as long as Chicago Trans dangles his Boring Company RFP submittal along long enough to secure funding by a real contractor - on the O’Hare to downtown (the loop for you NYC assholes) speedy human delivery thingy. Try making anything that one has to “push,…

Assume Bloomington is in good shape. Avoid too much time spent in Martensville, but visit it anyways. Canvas Indianapolis relatively new metro southern sprawl. Hit the river towns. Most importantly, don’t ever take politicking advice from an anonymous commenter on a blog run out of NYC.

Your take there is hot. I don’t understand it either. But there’s always the Great White Northwest Side and pretty much every parish between Beverly and Garfield Ridge. Maybe with McDonald’s corporate headquarters moving to the west loop, burger executives from Oak Brook and Burr Ridge will feel safer driving in on…

Fucking amatures. Greatest city in the world, my ass. And just think, a multi generational Irish cop from the Bronx is running for mayor of Chicago. Sorry, great grandma Bridget, but muni government services shouldn’t be family businesses.

Goddamnit, there is no patronage hiring and contracting in Chicago anymore! It’s a perfect open system, a beacon of democracy, after Mayor Rahm got the Shakman consent order reversed.