Whet Moser

For the judgment of the Almighty upon the perversity and wickedness of James Buchanan; for the subsidence of the Potato-rot, and for the improvement in the virtue of Congressmen; for Sewerage by and by; and other reasons Chicagoans were grateful. Read more

Decatur-area rep Bill Mitchell introduced a bill that would separate Cook County from the rest of the state, because they hold "different and firmly seated views" on "politics, society, and economics." Could downstate survive? Only if they convinced the collar counties to jump. Read more

The GOP's current not-Romney suggests that we fire all the janitors and employ poor kids to clean the schools. It's a bit like the Japanese idea of gakko soju... but also the opposite. Read more

A University of Illinois prof proposes a new form of public transportation that's somewhere between college drunk vans and Cuba's taxi colectivo system. Read more