Day: February 4, 2011

Danny Davis in Oak Park

Melody of Moonie Danny Davis For Mayor
Ain't gonna happen.

Rep. Davis last April at Village Hall. Held off until he ran for county board president (he didn’t) and then until he ran for mayor (he’s not doing that), presented now to voters in the Illinois 7th as maybe something to keep in mind when redistricting comes around . . .

Presenting Danny Davis, once gearing up to be future mayor of Chicago but for several weeks now not, as he presented himself last spring, when he was running for Congress and in process of winning 80% of the vote on Chicago’s West Side and several western suburbs.

He is his regular folksy self, tossing off more or less relevant observations in answer to questions, leaving connections sometime to the listener’s imagination. . . . .

Read the rest of it here, at Blithe Spirit for longer items . . . (Scroll down a bit)

Tough guy will out

Congressman Rahm Emanuel hosts constituents at...
Isn't he sweet?

Crain’s Chicago Business likes Rahm, arguing persuasively. For openers:

What Chicago needs most from its first new mayor in 22 years is a clean break with the past.

While all the top contenders to succeed Richard M. Daley are political insiders of one sort or another, Rahm Emanuel is the most independent. He’s a product of Democratic politics but not of the City Hall machine.

Etc., including his being a mean s.o.b. (not quoting Crain’s) who will have to deal with others of his ilk. The public employees’ unions, for instance.

Meanwhile, Gery Chico unfortunately continues to pile up endorsements from those very unions, which is not a good sign.

BC or not BC, that seems to be the question

Anno Domini inscription at Carinthia cathedral...
A common error?

Parish Coordinator of Religious Ed writes in the bulletin that an Old Testament reading is “in” (?) 640-609 BCE (BC). What the heck? No more plain BC (Before Christ)? And insistence on BCE (Before the Common Era), which has appeared before in the same bulletin?

Some fussbudget there is who doesn’t like that BC and has gotten to the parish staff. Or it’s the latest idea at the Institute of Pastoral Studies. Same with AD (anno Domini, Latin for year of the Lord), as in the second reading, Paul to the Corinthians, in 54 CE (AD), CE being, you guessed it, the Common Era.

We are being educated to do away with the B.C. and A.D. designations, before and after Christ, maybe so as not to offend the non-Christians who have been putting up with them for a long time but have finally decided they can’t take it any more. Maybe some other reason, one that makes sense.