What’s the name of the mayor of Chicago?
I was on the Max train, passing the Rose Garden with a large number of people coming out of the Blazers game. (Inexplicably, the Trailblazers beat the Lakers. Don’t ask me how that happened.) Travis Outlaw Bobble-heads abounded. (Perhaps the team can have a “Sam Bowie” bobble-head night while they’re at it, to celebrate one of the most famous Portland Trailblazers in team history?*)
There was a group of yuppies who went to the game. The bobble-heads all went into the hands of two men in the group, the two who have children.
“So, who’s mayor of Chicago these days?”
A bone-headed question. “Daley.”
“So, it’s not really a Democracy so much as it’s basically a monarchy in Chicago?”
“Basically, yes.” A pause. “I think after a few years, the new Daley is required to stick a “III” after his name, so Chicago always has Mayor Daley the Third.”