Author: Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

The Source: IRS Ignores Politicking Nonprofits | Texas Public Radio

​Hey, non-profits are people too, eager for the main chance:

​Reporting by the Center for Public Integrity has shown that despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on elections, nonprofits–many considered “social welfare” groups–are regularly getting away with breaking election law and aren’t being audited or investigated by the Internal Revenue Service.​
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​And that “social welfare” tag covers a multitude of main-chancers with social-ist [sic] agenda.​

Anyhow, it’s not easy staffing a hydra-headed governmental monster:

“The aftershocks from the political targeting scandal certainly don’t facilitate prompt solutions,” said Mark Everson, a former IRS commissioner appointed by President George W. Bush. “I would imagine there is a real slowdown getting issues resolved because there is a tendency on the part of employees to make sure they aren’t causing new problems.”

National sales tax, anyone, doing away with spending-monitoring completely, a.k.a. a Fair Tax solution to hydra-headed-monster problems?

People of color ok, colored people not? The Week That Perished – Taki’s Magazine

​This has had my shorts in a bunch for some time. If I can say people of color, why can’t I say colored people?

I’m not the only one:

WHY YOU SHOULDN’T REFER TO PEOPLE OF COLOR AS “COLORED PEOPLE”
Grammatically, “colored people” is undeniably more economical than “people of color.” Yet for reasons that remain mysterious and entirely unexplained, modern leftist speech police have forbidden the former term as they champion the latter.

White actor Benedict Cumberbatch spoke (sympathetically, empathetically, charitably) of “black actors” and had to apologize grovelingly.

I’m devastated to have caused offence by using this outmoded terminology. I offer my sincere apologies. I make no excuse for my being an idiot and know the damage is done.

Called himself “an idiot,” did he?

The only question that remains is whether you think he’s an idiot for using the term “colored” or for apologizing.

Who, me? Well. Really . . . I will say, this kind of talk makes me nervous, Know what I mean?

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Biggest Snowfall of Year Bearing Down on Chicago: ‘It’s Not Going to Miss’ – Streeterville – DNAinfo.com Chicago

​Heeeere it comes, Chicago!

By the end of the weekend, some parts of the lakefront could see as much as 12 inches of snow. The rest of the Chicago area should brace for between 5 to 10 inches of snow — and maybe even more if the conditions lead to snow before rain Saturday evening.

And forget about the recent New York fiasco, aided and abetted by its doughty mayor and sincerely earnest governor:

“There’s nothing to suggest it’s not happening,” National Weather Service meteorologist Ricky Castro said Saturday morning. “It’s not going to miss us like the heaviest snows missed New York City the other day. It’s not going to miss us.”

This time, they really, really mean it.​