Fat and happy rats don’t run mazes. And besides nobody really likes or cares about engineers. I’m an engineer and I don’t care about engineers. 

Fiscally conservative and socially liberal Rauner supporters along the north shore trust Bruce isn’t a nazi and that his support of a real nazi is simply good Illinois politics. His second wife and our first lady has probably assured them that is the case. It’s not easy getting downstate Illinois votes with a platform…

Many of the environmental charities have been washing their hands of those in their groups supporting population control and immigration denumeration. Sierra Club is an example of this as it revisited its mission about 20 years or so back. The environmental justice (EJ) movement starting in the 1980s was sort of a…

Palestinians and sephardic jews are much more attractive than eastern european ashkenazi jews. Like a lot. What happened to Saban then? During his peak attractive years he may have looked like a poor man’s Chuck Woolery at best. Sad.

Haymarket Martyrs Memorial, Forest Park, IL

That’s awesome stuff and I’m truly happy for you. An entire kingdom lies between the idea and the act. The kingdom is even bigger when the project has a governmental entity as the owner and that entity is tied to another entity that might be allocating funds from on high down to the local level. The kingdom being the…

As an aspiring engineer, you may want to look into the matter more closely. Why something gets built falls under need identification. Options alternatives to fulfill need would be feasibility study. Next step is pre-design investigation and site characterization. This could be seismic study and impacts of the build on…

I think I read Fountainhead in school. It wasn’t so much about imagining myself as a builder of stuff as having Patricia Neal (from the movie) pine for my nerd ass.

The reason federal facilities are built and many contracts are administered to red states (except California, it’s the biggest recipient of big gubmint) is because red states have political clout and lobbying muscle. The next reason has to do with right-to-work laws and whether or not the contractor will have to pay…

Man o’ man, if you really want to get a sense of the creeping banality of evil, you gotta go over to Engineering News Record (ENR) and read the latest engineering and construction opportunities for billable hours for building detention facilities. This is why science writers don’t want to write about engineering and…

Stanford sure does produce a lot of douchebags. For a degree factory.

The never Trump republicans needed to show their constituents in leafy upper middle and upper class suburbs that they don’t support Trump as the person that they all know him to be. Once taxes were cut for corporations and really rich and/or middle east policy went ballsy again, they’ve all gone mum. It’s not like…

Growing up in the evangelical christian capital of the Midwest, just west of Chicago during the 60s and 70s, I can say with 100% certainty that nothing pisses off “good christian businessmen” more than telling them to fuck off with there sleazy ass passive aggressive prayer meetings shit. Good christian businessmen…

To be fair, US EPA head administrator wants to dismantle the US EPA.

Didn’t he design uniforms for the nazis? Or is that urban legend?

In my little suburb just west of Chicago we have three congressional districts representing us unruly lot. No one out gerrymanders Chicagoland, goddamnit. This is a town of about 50,000. There’s Danny Davis on the north end. Louis Gutierrez in the middle. And Dan Lipinski on the south side. It’s like representation by…

I don’t understand your comment. It doesn’t seem like any breakthrough centrist comments are being made so far.

Revisiting 2016 by whiny-ass establishment democrats has to stop. Hillary got pretty much every vote she was going to get in the swing states that mattered. Nobody in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Intercourse , Pennsylvania, or Muskegon, Michigan who might have voted for Hillary ended up voting for Trump because of a think…

Sorry. I will apologize to my great grandma Bridget who’s in heaven right now with the Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the saints. As a matter of fact while on earth, she thought less kindly of shanty Irish like Sean Hannity than I do. That was the old Chicago southside Irish v. westside. Hannity being westside-like.

Being about an 1/8th Irish (lace curtain, not no shanty-ass pig-in-parlor Mick potato eater), I consider myself an expert on all things Irish and Ireland. While the little island has produced many great authors and gave us our well pensioned government employee union police and firemen in big northern cities, I don’t…