The more things change...

...the more they stay the same...

I can clearly remember my Dad going on and on about Mayor Richard Daley way back when in Chicago. I can remember all of the voter fraud where names were registered to vote and the addresses turned out to cemeteries. I can remember the riots during the Democratic Convention way back when. I was just a little kid but I remember thinking all hell was breaking loose as cops beat down protesters and my Dad grumbled about "hippy scum". All of that happened years ago and you would think that in this day and age of promised change things would be different. Then I read this

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_re_us/blagojevich_corruption_probe

and I realized that for all the strides we have made over the years some things never really change. Politics is still a game and Chicago politics still stinks!

And, actually, all of this made me laugh out loud.