Fun with the eclipse
Tuesday, Aug 22, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* This tweet set off a chain reaction of sorts…
That one about Cullerton still cracks me up.
* Don’t look at the sun, Leslie!!!…
* Umm…
* But the Chicago Tribune editorial board was its usual downer self…
We’re sure that will be a thrilling sight. But there’s another eclipse in Illinois that isn’t thrilling — or so brief.
This eclipse doesn’t occur only on Aug. 21.
It is happening every day.
You don’t need special glasses to see it.
Just keep your eyes open to the grim, familiar evidence of Illinois in eclipse:
Job seekers and company execs who cross Illinois off their lists early because of its toxic political and business climate.
Droves of students who flee to financially stable out-of-state universities.
For sale signs that sprout galore. Illinois in eclipse has led the nation in population loss three years in a row. (Such a three-year streak has happened only one other time since 1900, during World War II.)
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:29 am:
===Droves of students who flee to financially stable out-of-state universities.===
Gov. Rauner vetoed the funding for state universities.
The Democrats, in a bipartisan move with Sen. Righter and 15, then later 10 House Republicans, saved funding for Illinois’ state universities.
Rauner vetoed. But, Chicago Trib Edit Board, you already knew that…
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:33 am:
Thankfully I still have my eclipse glasses so I can safely look at the Tribune Editorial page.
- wordslnger - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:37 am:
Wow, a hurricane, an eclipse — that Katrina is some fancy writer in her own mind,
She can take any topic on her mind that day and bend it to her Rauner/IPI-issued chanting points.
“The Illinois pension system is like piles. It won’t get better with quick-fix ointments. It needs painful but necessary surgery…”
- Come on man! - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:37 am:
Best. Post. Ever.
- Blue Bayou - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:38 am:
So the Trib is worried about state universities now?
Charming.
Have they ever advocated for more robust state funding?
What a joke of a paper (editorial side, at least).
- Steve Rogers - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:39 am:
Madigan and the celestial bodies he controls…
- Arock - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:46 am:
“Have they ever advocated for more robust state funding?” - Why, the State spends whatever they want whether they have the revenue or not? $250 billion pension debt and unfunded retiree healthcare to name two. Cost at Illinois Universities were driving away students before the budget crisis.
- Hamlet's Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:54 am:
Michael Madigan and the cloud cover he controls.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:58 am:
Trump, Munger, Rauner prove they can defy science and face off with the “so called” Eclipse. As usual , leading by example
- Huh? - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 10:58 am:
What is it about wealthy elected officials and looking at the eclipse without protective glasses? Does 1.4% and drumpf really believe that the sun won’t blind them?
- Annonin' - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 11:06 am:
The ‘clipse was the best
TG no one even looks much at Katrina and the Edit Board (probably why she flunked here IPI entrance test).
Does anyone else think Wingeee has bulked up?
- Cubs in '16 - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 1:11 pm:
‘Eclipse reaches 99.3% of totality. A dissatisfied Rauner raises his hands towards the sky in disgust; heads home.’
- dbk - Tuesday, Aug 22, 17 @ 3:18 pm:
IL solar system returns to normal: bills, vetoes, overrides; rinse, wash, repeat.