Chicago Tribune columnist wishes for a "Hurricane Katrina" to clean up Chicago

[KamaAina]

Sorry, not The Onion.

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2015/08/13/chicago-tribune-columnist-wishes-for-a-hurricane-katrina-to-clean-up-chicago

Well, that was a shitstorm — and we're not talking about the first few minutes of the New Orleans Saints' preseason game. A member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board is wishing for a "Hurricane Katrina" to strike and help clean up what she sees as her own corrupt city.

Kristen McQueary, who is an actual member of the Chicago Tribune's actual editorial board, met with Mayor Mitch Landrieu and somehow came away with the notion — well, I'm not sure what's more wrongheaded, that Katrina "fixed" things in New Orleans or that a Chicagoan would want the people of Chicago to go through something similar:

Envy isn't a rational response to the upcoming 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

But with Aug. 29 fast approaching and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu making media rounds, including at the Tribune Editorial Board, I find myself wishing for a storm in Chicago — an unpredictable, haughty, devastating swirl of fury. A dramatic levee break. Geysers bursting through manhole covers. A sleeping city, forced onto the rooftops.

[lpbk2713]

1. So what's a few dozen bloated bodies floating down the river.

Or cops shooting people because they feel like it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. The Chicago Tribune's next columnist will be Travis Bickel

The US media establishment is really hitting rock bottom. What an asshole.