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Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Your one-word comment about the current state of the state? One word only, please, and make sure it’s at least close to being a real word. Thanks.

215 Comments

- Joe M - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:36 pm:
discombobulated

- Beaner - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
unacceptable or disgusting

- 360 Degree TurnAround - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
Ambivalent

- After Further Review - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
Terminal

- Gus - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
unpropitious

“(of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavorable.”

- Cimbada - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
Typical

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
“Whoops”

- Cheswick - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:38 pm:
Fraying.

- Sue - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:38 pm:
Constipated

- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:38 pm:
Irresponsibility

- Zoe - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:38 pm:
distressing

- Cubs in '15 - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:39 pm:
embarrassing

- jsg - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:40 pm:
Titanic

- Aldyth - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
Decomposing.

- Distant Viewer - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
Shameful

- Haadi - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
Shameful

- olddog - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:43 pm:
Unraveling.

- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
Derelict

- Moderation - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
Extreme

- Bruce (No not him) - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
Disastrous

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:45 pm:
Orchestrated

- Runbikeswim - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:45 pm:
Zoo

- South of Sherman - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:45 pm:
Catastrophic

- Former IHPA - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
Dumpsterfire

- Slippin' Jimmy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
antithetical

- the217 - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
pedantic

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
Purposeful

- Democrat Grrrl - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
Casualty

- Sillies - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
Unreliable.

- Anon. - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
Illinois

- TotesMcGoats - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
Doomed

- Huh? - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
Sigh

- Dinsdale - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
Subterfuge

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:49 pm:
ill

- Juvenal - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:50 pm:
Charybdis

- Diane - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
pathetic

- Rufus - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
Inevitable

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
Bummer

- Mr. D - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
Rudderless

- SourKraut - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
Fouled

- Former Hoosier - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:53 pm:
Absurd

- State Engineer - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:53 pm:
Kafkaesque

- Wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:54 pm:
Hostage

- illini - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:55 pm:
dysfunctional

- Austin Blvd - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:55 pm:
Ruinered.

- Owen, son of Gus - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:55 pm:
Derp.

- Ducky LaMoore - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:55 pm:
….

- thoughts matter - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:57 pm:
Hopeless

- babygirl1 - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 1:58 pm:
mockery

- dr. reason a, goodwin - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:00 pm:
Circus

- zatoichi - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:02 pm:
ad-libbed

- Former state employee - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:07 pm:
Sad

- Richsays - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:09 pm:
Disgusting

- Stones - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
Deaf

- siriusly - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
foul

- Honeybear - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
gasping

- ChinaTown - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
WraunerWreck

- UIC Guy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
FUBAR

- Keyrock - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
Magicbeanless.

- Keyrock - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:14 pm:
Squeezeyed.

- Keyrock - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:15 pm:
Squirrel!

- Anon221 - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
Raunered.

- DuPage - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:17 pm:
Trainwreck

- Steve - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:17 pm:
Unjust.

- peanut - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
Nihilistic

- CharlieKratos - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
Sad

- Appalled - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:19 pm:
Clusterf**k

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:20 pm:
Miscalculated

- @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:20 pm:
Hemorrhagic.

– MrJM

- James - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:21 pm:
neglected

- kygirl73 - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:21 pm:
FUBAR

- cdog - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:21 pm:
pirates

- Downstate Weed Chewing Hick - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:21 pm:
Fiftieth

- workerbee - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:25 pm:
Broken

- Waffle Fries - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
Competitive

- Dilemma - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
Humiliatin’

- Politix - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:28 pm:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- Carhartt Union Negotiating Team - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:30 pm:
Apathetic

- Carhartt Union Negotiating Team - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
Narcissistic

- WhoKnew - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
TWITS

- Slippin' Jimmy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
Hosed

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:33 pm:
Anti-Splindifferous

- Mittuns - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:35 pm:
Autodefenestration.

- G'kar - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:36 pm:
Sigh!

- Lefty Lefty - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
infuriating

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:41 pm:
pathetic

- lurky mclurkster - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:42 pm:
omnishambles

- Joe M - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:43 pm:
CodeRED

- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:47 pm:
Comatose

- Jocko - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:47 pm:
Stalled

- Reality Check - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:50 pm:
Embarrassing

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:51 pm:
downgraded

- TickedOff - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:55 pm:
Raunerific

- Arizona Bob - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:55 pm:
madiganesque

- Almost the Weekend - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:55 pm:
Raunerized

- Shemp - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:57 pm:
cluster….

- Flynn's Mom - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:57 pm:
imploding

- Dome Gnome - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:58 pm:
Dunkinistic

- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:58 pm:
Optimistic

- Dutchman - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
supercalifragilisticexpialawhatamess

- Politix - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:00 pm:
Fool-athon

- Dance Band on the Titanic - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:00 pm:
Underground

- Enviro - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:01 pm:
Undervalued

- Niblets - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Squalid!

- Politix - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Charade

- Big Joe - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:03 pm:
Spongeworthy

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:07 pm:
Radioactive

- Wondering Woman - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:08 pm:
SNAFU

- Man with a plan - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:10 pm:
Splat

- Langhorne - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:10 pm:
Shameful

- CrazyHorse - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:11 pm:
Kidnapped!

- Gruntled University Employee - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:12 pm:
pitiful

- NewWestSuburbanGOP'er - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:12 pm:
Reg**d***iculous

- 3rd Party Needed - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:13 pm:
Randianizing

- Keyrock - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:17 pm:
Superstarred

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:17 pm:
Confusion

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:19 pm:
Eviscerated

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:20 pm:
Goldberged

- Patrick Mauro - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:25 pm:
GoldFinger

- Alfred P. - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:33 pm:
Montparnasse

- Deep South - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:34 pm:
Mortified!

- Anyone Remember - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:36 pm:
Non-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

- Anon - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:36 pm:
Overdue

- Damfunny - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:39 pm:
d’oh!

- lake county democrat - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:42 pm:
Slouching

- Blago's Hare - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:46 pm:
Awfulish

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:48 pm:
3rd rate

- JS Mill - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:49 pm:
Joke

- Keyrock - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:51 pm:
TP’ed

- Enviro - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:55 pm:
Shanghaied

- BIG R. Ph. - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:55 pm:
Stalemated

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:55 pm:
PARTISAN

- The Muse - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 3:56 pm:
Dishonorable

- Bogey Golfer - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:04 pm:
Expected

- Lucky Pierre - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:04 pm:
Denial

- Keyser Soze - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:06 pm:
Decidophobia.

- Not quite a majority - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:07 pm:
nuclear

- Flynn's Mom - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:09 pm:
shameful

- Ben Franklin - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:10 pm:
Chaos

- Harry - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:11 pm:
Hilarious

- Ben Franklin - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:11 pm:
Hateful

- Wensicia - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:13 pm:
Dissociation

- ash - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:14 pm:
pathological

- OurMagician - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:15 pm:
Rediculous

- jt - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:17 pm:
Bumcombe

- walker - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:20 pm:
tsunami

- RNUG - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:21 pm:
Catch22

- Christopher - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:21 pm:
Corrupt.

- dupage dan - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:24 pm:
deserved

- John A Logan - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:25 pm:
splat

- Jorge - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:29 pm:
Wretched

- AC - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:33 pm:
Unnecessary

- illinoised - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:33 pm:
Unstately.

- Cook County Commoner - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:35 pm:
Just

- Johnnie F. - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:42 pm:
Exon-Valdez

- Earnest - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:43 pm:
Misleading

- qualified somebody nobody sent - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:43 pm:
MENDACITY

- Formerly Known As... - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:49 pm:
Patience

- Formerly Known As... - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:51 pm:
Chickens-Home-Roost

- Formerly Known As... - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:51 pm:
Plague

- Third Reading - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:53 pm:
Desultory.

I’m outta here.

- #freedumb - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 4:58 pm:
Lockbox

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:01 pm:
Sunk !

- Tone - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:07 pm:
Declining

- jt - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:08 pm:
Raucous

- Deep Blue - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:12 pm:
Disappointing

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:13 pm:
Irregardless

- Lt. Guv. - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:17 pm:
Strategery.

- Lt. Guv. - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:17 pm:
Hell.

- PENSIONS ARE OFF LIMITS - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:19 pm:
Tier2

- Chicago 20 - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:24 pm:
Ransomed

- Das Man - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:29 pm:
Risible

- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:33 pm:
Cluster

- sideline watcher - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:39 pm:
FECKLESS

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:40 pm:
Repose

- Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:41 pm:
Turnarounded

- Runaground Agenda - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:42 pm:
OWNerous

(Tips cap to OW)

- Runaground Agenda - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:43 pm:
TurnarOWNdagenda

- Runaground Agenda - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:44 pm:
rOWNer

- South Central - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:44 pm:
Hostages

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 5:47 pm:
Exorcism

- quincy - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 6:29 pm:
recall

- Politix - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 6:36 pm:
JRTCuin2017

- Politix - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 6:37 pm:
Reformaphobia

- Politix - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 6:38 pm:
Sandacked

- Northsider - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 6:50 pm:
Arrogant

- burbanite - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 7:04 pm:
Leaderless

- peanut - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 7:20 pm:
TurnaRaunerized

- Chicagoite - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 7:31 pm:
Limburger

- Mama - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 7:32 pm:
dishonest

- Mama - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 7:32 pm:
thief

- eeriter - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 7:33 pm:
Fitchedup

- lost in the weeds - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 7:51 pm:
unstate

- Keyrock - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 8:04 pm:
Ardruined.

- Jimbo2 - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 8:05 pm:
Only 2 other FUBARs?

- Interested - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 8:10 pm:
Immoral

- cardsmama - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 8:21 pm:
Despicable

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 8:50 pm:
co-pathetic

- X-prof - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 9:03 pm:
Oops, that was me at 8:50 pm.

- ah HA - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 9:16 pm:
Babified

- Blue dog dem - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 9:37 pm:
Overspent

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 9:37 pm:
Demagoguery

- Tone - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 9:53 pm:
Bankrupt

- Dutchman - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 10:25 pm:
Sad

- DuPage Grandma - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 10:42 pm:
Failure

- Gobsmacked - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 10:49 pm:
Bilious.

- West Side the Best Side - Tuesday, Oct 20, 15 @ 10:56 pm:
FUBAR x4

- Sick of It All - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 2:52 am:
Titanic

- a girl - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 7:32 am:
wreckless

- FormerParatrooper - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 7:44 am:
Selfinflicted

- alas - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 7:44 am:
alack

- The Godfather - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 8:02 am:
Cowardly

- Anon - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 8:44 am:
disfunctional

- morningstar - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 10:13 am:
Juvenile.

- Say WHAT? - Wednesday, Oct 21, 15 @ 11:20 am:
Typical

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