Quick Stops

Karma kicks in:

A convicted felon chose the wrong victim when he tried to rob an MMA fighter Friday night on the Southwest Side and ended up with two black eyes and a gunshot wound to the ankle.

I laughed and laughed!
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On the other hand, this news is a big old bummer:

Longtime WGN-720 AM Radio overnight co-hosts Steve King and Johnnie Putman are ending their 26-year run.

Their final show will air Friday.

Now where am I going to find cool new music? Steve and Johnnie have been a constant source of good stuff (and have been big cheerleaders of my friend Lisa McClowrey's for a long, long time)!
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If I wasn't so darned happy with the way she's running Cook County, I'd be advocating for Toni Preckwinkle for President:

She’s publicly criticized Gov. Pat Quinn, battled with the sheriff over budget cuts and even taken a jab at President Barack Obama’s signature health-care plan.

Her critics, and even some of her fans, say the 64-year-old Toni Preckwinkle, president of Cook County Board, can be abrupt, even “autocratic” — a throwback to the iron-fist rule of the so-called machine Democrats that ruled the county for decades.

But feather-ruffling aside, Preckwinkle has managed to shepherd through two balanced budgets, advance a socially liberal agenda and even make a few power grabs — all with the support of the county board.

And she’s done it all in a year’s time, after taking office last Dec. 6 on a platform of reform and transparency following the ouster of past president Todd Stroger.

See what I mean?

Pull Over

Park yourself and read this thoughtful and thought-provoking post on the nature of male/female relationships in the U.S. today. The Futurist takes the basic premise of Kim du Toit's 2003 post entitled The Pussification Of The Western Male and ratchets up the arguments to a factor of 10.

While the tone is angry and will certainly grate on the modern feminine psyche (not the feminist psyche, which will reject it wholesale) like nails on a blackboard, when you look past the anger and into the basic arguments you'll find a great deal of truth there, too.

Like the original du Toit post, I suspect this post will set off a firestorm of self-defensive he said/she said squabbling across the internet. That's a shame. I hope, for the more enlightened thinkers among us, it provokes thoughtful and respectful discussion instead.

(A tip of the cap to the Instapundit.)

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Since I've already pointed you to one writer who serves up a healthy portion of controversial thought, I might as well also direct you to this post on San Francisco's cultural change over time as a harbinger of the direction we may be headed as a country, as well.