I mean, THIS IS INSANE PEOPLE!!!

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

I thought the Chicago Tribune had gone bust, taking the LA times with it

keep to the Fen Causeway

Listening to the press conference.  Like a scene out of a Hollywood movie.  Fitz is like Elliot Ness.  Man, you cannot make this stuff up!  The messed up thing is that Blago can still appoint Obama's successor!  Gah!  This is absolute madness.  

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Blago's response to Obama wanting Valerie Jarrett is pretty ballsy:

In a conversation with Harris on November 11, the charges state, Blagojevich said he knew that President-elect Obama wanted [Valerie Jarrett] for the open seat but "they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. Fuck them."

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

Los Angeles long cultivated an image of being less corrupt than other "eastern" big cities.  I don't believe they were or are.  But for a while they did have massively better PR, courtesy of the LA Times.  I believe the same holds true for the entire USA, compared to the rest of the world.  It is easier and less dangerous to tell people soothing lies than to discomfort the mighty.  Financial bankruptcy for the media provides a symmetry to their long time moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."