Todd “Toddler” Stroger, Cook County Board President (who inherited the position from his father) has come under fire for fighting for a dramatic sales tax increase in Cook County, which surrounds Chicago and many of its suburbs.

Now comes word that Stroger has failed to pay almost $12,000 in income taxes. His once doggedly loyal support (lots of people loved his dad when he was board president and so switched their fanaticism to the son) is eroding rapidly. Small wonder that Democrats insist on raising taxes to pay for everything, when they exempt themselves from paying them.

Your inscrutable Mandarin makes a prediction: calls for his resignation, impeachment, punishment, or prosecution will be met with accusations of racism.

Submitted by Your Mandarin.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.