The Ricketts paterfamilias, one Joe Ricketts, has this really great idea, see: spend ten million bucks plastering pictures of Negroes all over the country during the coming election season. See, one of the Negroes is, however illegitimately --isn't even an American, or a Christian--, the current President; and the other is a retired minister who is on record as saying the kind of intemperate things that people like Pat Robertson have said about America. The retired minister, see, was the secret mentor of the Muslim president; and if America only knew that, why, the Republicans would sweep the polity and restore fiscal sanity to our country, cutting off the lavish tax money giveaways to all those other Negroes, in the process.
Isn't ten million a lot to spend on this kind of foolishness?
Not when you're confidently expecting the City of Chicago to give you $150 million to outfit your fancy new toy, Wrigley Field.
I admit, it's not much of a sacrifice, electing to forego the exquisite experience of watching the Cubs flail about that storied ballpark. But, like one of their better players, who today announced his retirement, I will henceforth render the attention I give to Chicago sports in the direction of the South Side, where the announcers do not have to congratulate the left fielder on his determination, a decade into his career, to learn how to catch a fly ball.
I don't have an account at AmeriTrade --pace Sam Waterston-- that I can cancel. So I'll have to take at least part of my stand against gutter politics and criminally rich bigots by avoiding the Cubs, from now on.
Small loss. It's July, and the Cubs are safely in last place.
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