She’s no David Pogue, that’s for sure. Isn’t tech writing these days just integrated marketing and communication? You know, like being a publicist or press release copy editor?

A kickback (or consultant’s fee) is probably just as effective as all the lobbying done by pro nuke power and super fan enviro non profit Environmental Progress (EP). EP lobbied to get taxpayers to bail out two of Exelon’s plants in Illinois. We land of Lincoln-ers can thank Rachel Pritzker (JB’s cousin) for her…

You want a milk war - you gotta a milk war.

It could be that Soros shorted tobacco stocks and still holds a grudge for Gillibrand’s very successful big cigarette lawyering past. Or it’s about Franken.

That information is a bit old. The machine isn’t well oiled given the even mix between white, hispanic and blacks and the loop being a big tourist draw, i.e. money coming in from outside the machine. Most of the white ethnics who made up the machine have retired to Arizona.

Rahm Emanuel has plumbers, carpenters, operating engineers, ironworkers, sheet metal all loving him after a contentious period. Police are a bit pissed at him, but hey we’re talking Chicago. If you’re going to run as a socialists you better get all the unions and especially trades, police, fire, and teachers. You need…

All she has to do is get NYS and NYC police and fire unions and all the construction trade unions like operating engineers and iron workers behind her. Nothing could be more socialist than trade unions, yet those folks, who are still very strong, side with crony capitalists like real estate developers all the fucking…

Talk about a hustler working the glory days of the fair and balanced administrative state to her advantage:

1. No, republicans were never the progressive outsiders, i.e. Mayor Big Jim Thompson. Also, the the so called progressives put Bernie Epton as the republican candidate up against Harold Washington. And fuck me, Lincoln stole the republican nomination at the Wigwam on Lake Street back in 1860.

Trump is doing what Chicago first suburbs thug politicians on the westside have done and continue to do. A mayoral candidate with plenty of ties runs on a law and order platform. Mayor candidate needs disorder to stimulate a perceived or real need for law and order. Gang activities rise before an election. Gang…

Third way politics only works in upper middle class and above leafy suburbs and gentrified city neighborhoods with mean-as-fuck white ethnic cops working behind the scenes. That and potholes get filled regularly. And you don’t have to take the CTA blue line from the west. If you’re not sitting across from a dude…

Bruce Rauner officiating a Land of Lincoln Log Republican wedding this summer.

Hey, Sam Clovis, corpulent Iowa conservative radio host, almost head scientists at the USDA without any science background, and Russia superfan turned cooperative witness graduated Air Force Academy. Let’s not pile on the navy. Colorado Springs being ground zero of the evangelical/military complex.

I held a door for a date once. She said, “what am I, a trained seal.” Still cracks me up after all these years.

You mean to say that drillers of the 100 or so foot deep Drake well in northwest PA were not worried about burdensome near surface and surface completion requirements?

One positive thing about Pruitt is that he might make people give a shit about government agency when it comes to chemical health risk assessment. Who the fuck am I trying to kid. Trump and republicans will probably get rid of US EPA and state level agency. Environmental nonprofits can give us common sense approaches…

Yes. I’ve been in the business a long time. The environment is big and has a lot to protect. So there’s lots of stuff to learn along the way. I have one or two or maybe three things I’m actually knowledgeable and competent in. The rest is simply learning on the fly because no other asshole probably will spend time…

One well pad usually has about four wells. Like this:

Some folks tap into oil and gas pipelines extra operationally. Not legally.

Glenside isn’t anywhere near oil and gas (mostly gas) country.