* Another week, another set of crushing indictments. Will it ever end? I sure wish there was an easy answer here, but I’m getting so tired of this merry go-round that I’ve spent the better part of today seriously rethinking some of my own preconceptions and attempting to sort things through. Your comments definitely helped today, so thanks much for that. I’ll have more next week because I want this blog to help Illinois come up with some real solutions that will make real changes.

Also, I’d like to send a message to the small handful of reformers out there who are claiming that I am somehow part of the problem: Where were you last year when I and others were screaming almost every day for a constitutional convention in the hope that radical changes could be made to our political system? Do I have to make a list of all the reform ideas I’ve backed over the years? Refusing to automatically praise your every word, questioning some of your reform proposals and pointing out the reasons behind the Statehouse hostility to y’all does not make me or anyone else evil. You’re almost Rodlike with your simplistic black and white world and your overreactions. Bite me.

* The video quality is poor, but the song rocks and it’s appropriate on so many different levels this crazy week…