• Paul John Higgins
  • The many incarnations of Rahm, as imagined by the Button Man of Bridgeport, aka Mr. X.

If you view life in Chicago as a struggle between the peasants and their king, then it’s been a rough summer for the peasants—to say the least.

Somehow he figured out that I was, oh, sort of critical of the mayor. Wonder where he got that idea?

Which, now that I think about it, could refer either to the mayor or the voters who elected him.

The Button Man also sent me a T-shirt that depicts the mayor as the Joker with a camera lens coming out of his right eye and a sign in the back that says “Speed Limit C—Your speed faster than light.”

Speaking of which . . .