A Great Day in the Annals of Cleaning Up the USA

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-blagojevich-jurors-going-into-their-10th-day-20110627,0,620170.story

 

Guilty on 17 counts.

Acquitted on 1.

Deadlocked on 2.

 

Thank you, Patrick Fitzgerald, for getting it right, this time.

 

 

Samuel Johnson

For at least a decade I have been thinking, I have simply GOT to read me some Samuel Johnson, seeing as how everybody thinks he's so durned smart.

Now that I've finished John Wain's bio of him and read Rambler no. 2 and no. 8, I realize what I have been missing.

If I were English, I would make it a point of pride to share Johnson with the world, and claim him as one of the greatest men who ever lived. As I am mostly Irish, German, and -- um -- mixed, I will content myself with saying that he is a damned fine read.