Peoria Pundit

Unless otherwise noted, all links are via the Peoria Journal Star. The snarky commentary is my own.

• No link here, but I need to let everyone know that Peoria Pundit Radio is going silent, for the time being at least. My work schedule changed and I no longer have Sunday evenings free. But I do have Friday evenings off, but no one, absolutely NO ONE, wants to listen or call into a show on Friday night. And my other day off is taken up by Peoria City Council meetings. So rather that flail away at a dead horse, I’m calling it quits on the show. My apologies to the seven people who’ve listened live.
• Vis tha Chicago Sun-Times, an article on the GOP’s failed attempts to find adequate candidates for the 11th and 14th Congressional Districts. The Aaron Schock/Colleen Callahan race in the 18th gets a mention too, with Schock portrayed at the wunderkind, again. It’s getting a bit cliche, folks.
• Meanwhile, Karen McDonald reports in today’s Word on the Street that GOP is all one happy family, rallying behind Schock. Trust me people, for every Republican who’s enthused, there is another who is resigned to their fate.
• Another man was allegedly robbed in this alleged newspaper article written by an alleged reporter.
• Meanwhile, here’s a list of dangerous drug criminals.
• Morton is going to hike its hotel tax, generating dozens of dollars.
• Good article by Andy Kravetz on those who are mourning the loss of Matt Maupin.
• My compliments to the OSF public relations department for managing to get what amounts to a press release printed as legitimate news in the Peoria Journal Star. Of course, some sourpuss used the comments section to suggest that the money spent on those murals might be better used to pay workers better. Which, according to rumor, also improves morale. But then, what do I know.
• A three-year-old is slapped and kicked in the genitals by the man his mother is screwing. When you talk to child abuse and domestic violence experts, they will tell you that this thing happens across all economic and social classes. But as a guy who has gone through tens of thousands of police reports over the years, I can say there is one element that is almost always a constant: Boyfriends are much, much, much more likely to abuse women and children that are husbands and fathers.
• I’m not opposed to Pat Quinn’s desire to give voters the power to recall elected officials. But I don’t see how we can expect Illinois voters to make better decisions than we make on regular elections. After all, it was a well-established fact that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was an incompetent hack, probably corrupt as all Hell, during the last gubernatorial election. But we voted for him because we well for his line of craps about passing out all kinds of goodies like health care for children without raising taxes.