This sales review at Oak Park’s The Book Table, is wrong in at least one major respect. First, the review:

Twilight of the Elites
America after Meritocracy

by Christopher Hayes
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another–from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball–imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.

How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into…

Guest blogger Mike Fahy is a Chicago lawyer:

From 11AM until the Walker victory party on the isthmus, I worked the university campus wards in Madison doing vote-fraud lawyer work to prevent gov’t union thugs from stealing Scott Walker‘s job. A Madison judge had encouraged vote fraud by postponing implementation of photo I.D. cards for voting (a Walker reform) until the November election.

Strange election law in the People’s Republic of Madison: A voter cannot wear a small Walker campaign button, but it is legal to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Barrett for Governor” and his big Blue Fist campaign emblem — the Marxist fist of international socialist tyranny.

Here is the fun part: Liberals in the People’s Republic of Madison actually began celebrating shortly before the polls closed at 8 PM. The Madison board of elections had announced the expected voter turnout in Madison would be…

Wed. Journal on Oak Park fire:

There is probable cause to indicate that arson may have been the cause of a fire early Sunday that destroyed a gay nightclub in a building on the northeast corner of Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue, according to a statement from the village.

Please.  Is probable cause to think arson was the cause.  Or simply is cause to think it may have been.   That double clutch is annoying — probable and may have been.  It shows the writer is or wants us to be doubly uncertain.  Not necessary.  News accounts are full of such doubling up.