Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
In my previous post, commentator Foo Bar suggested that people can still tolerate Bill Ayers in the leftist community because, although he set bombs, he never chose to kill anyone.
Bad news, Foo Bar. Ayers didn’t choose not to kill. He tried to kill and screwed it up.
What I’ve heard of the Democratic convention reminds me of some lines from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado:
Sent to hear sermons by mystical Germans
Who preach from ten till four
Unfortunately, the Republican convention will probably come across the same way.