Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 26, 2010

Report on a Daley basis.

Bad Bad Red Rascal Brown, Baddest Cat in the whole d..n town.

To the Jim who crashed and burned with “Real Legend” on his resume.

Chicago will never know what hit it.

Seriously. He won’t make enough of an impact.

Chicago’s a helicopt– er, target rich environment.

At least he’ll have some good pizza before he’s killed.

Would he parachute in ?

at least they have some hot doctors in the “ER”

In 68 those police needed protection

auh oh

Hey, Lew, the police did their job in 1968. They “preserved disorder”, as Mayor Daley said.

What the nation needed in 1968 was to treat civil disobedience with respect and to remove itself from imperialistic incursions into foreign lands.

Unfortunately, the lessons of the Vietnam War were lost on wealthy powerful chickenhawks like G.W. Bush & Dick Cheney, so we have had to go through the entire mess again, twice.

Twice? If the Palestinians and Israelis can’t reach an agreement on Israeli settlements by September 30th according to King Abdulla ll of Jordan on The Daily Show, I only get my news from it and the Colbert Report, we may be fighting on at least 5 fronts. At least 2 more this year.

Screw the Middle East. Let them all kill each other and then we’ll go in and beat up the winner.

“It’s 106 miles to Chicago…He’s got a full tank of B.S…half a mag of ammo..he’s dumb and he’s wearing sunglasses.”

Hit it.

The Chicago police not only were commended for having “preserved disorder” in 1968; they were also acquitted in their trial a few years later. The chief of the Patrolman’s Association was ecstatic. “I am elated,” he said. “This shows that Lady Justice is not blind.”

Maybe Jeff Redfern knows who (or what, besides an inveterate contempt for justice) still protects the Chicago police.

Ps. @ BrianCrook

Sounds like Willie X. Lin took the advice you gave a few weeks back to read Mrs. Dalloway. Is he one of your students/colleagues?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/opinion/26gradstudents.html

… or feed up—-with fat bribes.

A doctor I knew went to complain to a towing service that his car had been towed illegally. When the garage owner refused to let him have his car back unless he paid up, the doctor made the garage call the Chicago police. A local policeman arrived in two minutes. After listening to the doctor’s complaint, the policeman threw him down the stairs—-breaking his leg.

The doctor was unable to get a report of the incident and he had to pay to mend his leg as well as retrieve his car.

Chicago justice, 1968 or 2008. You’d be better off living under the Taliban, if not under Karzai’s corrupt regime (whither Jeff Redfern may be returning).

Actually, the finger landed on Berwyn.

BER-wyn?!!

(inside joke for Chicago bad-horror-movie fans)

Chicago? Look at that globe—he’s much closer to Hershey, PA.

Speaking of Karzai, if the Taliban get too hot to handle, he can always get a gig as a “body double” for Overkill.

SLIPPED?! Was he hoping for New York?

Can’t you see it now…? RED RASCAL…The Musical.

Drome, the story about your friend the doctor is horrifying. In re Mrs. Dalloway, I did not teach Willie Lin nor do I work with him, but I agree with him about the novel. This whole op-ed, though, pontificates quite a bit, doesn’t it? in addition, I am sorry to see the “Ph.D. student in English and American Literature” misuse “whomever”.

I cannot recall recommending Mrs. Dalloway, but I am happy to recommend it at any time.

Brian, That particular mistake—-treating “whom” as the immediate object rather than making an object of the entire “who” clause—-has become almost universal. I frequently see it in the NYT, though less often in WSJ articles, which tend to be as conservative with the English language as they are in politics.

Maybe Wm. Safire was our last George Orwell, but I have to think the problem has deeper roots than just the 20th-c. totalitarian state. The founders of modern prose—-Dryden, Swift, Addison, Steele—-constantly analyzed their syntax. To paraphrase Dryden, ‘The only way I can tell whether my English makes sense is to run it into Latin.’

My own Latin is not good enough to let me do that, so I try to listen to Addison instead, taking Dr. Johnson’s advice: “He who would form a just prose style must give his days and nights to reading Addison.” (In any event, I doubt that Lewreader and others in the forum will take the trouble to make their syntax support their argument. Most commenters on Doonesbury don’t venture beyond a sentence and don’t present arguments.)

Ps. Since you’ve mentioned you write from St. Louis, I thought you might know something about the Washington U. writing program.

It’s safer in Afghanistan.

Chicago, what a perfect place for a legend to earn his chops building his non-existent resume’ and becoming more famous until he becomes able to read a teleprompter and becomes the most powerful man in the world.

(Sorry, I was on vacation)

For the record NOLA, Ronald Reagan got his start in Dixon, Illinois - not Chicago.