Windy City Gone Wimpy
Nick Gillespie's take on the recent slew of nanny state ordinances to pass through the Chicago city council.
But it turns out that Chicago is a sissy town because that "stormy, husky, brawling … City of the Big Shoulders," in Carl Sandburg's evocative 1916 poem, seems hellbent on putting a chokehold on just about everything that makes a city a city. Namely, fun. Local pols evidently are more dedicated to rooting out gluttony among residents than reining in a police department neck deep in an ugly torture scandal.
None of this Chicago bashing makes L.A. less of a hell-hole. At least we don't have the the worst traffic in the US, skyrocketing crime, a shitty housing market, bars that close at 2:00 or earlier, staggering unemployment, Mel Gibson, smog . . . even the L.A. public is worse than ours. How can he rag about our smoking ban when L.A. had one first?
Carl 07 Sep 2006