Bottom line is Blowgo is a corrupt clown. He can try to dance with words all he wants - he is all about himself. When Rezko drops a dime to save his own butt Blowgo will see that he isn't Old Man Winter afterall and his snowjobs are gonna melt.

In today's day and age we can repeatedly look at people, especially our youth who are just following the examples we set and see the dodging of personal responsibility that is tearing at the moral fobre of our society.

And Blowgo certainly leads the charge.

Let's look at this wonderful little piece from today's Chicago Tribune in addressing his disgusting behavior. It's definately a shot in the 10-ring.

Credit where it's due.........thanks to writer Erik Zorn, writer of the Change of Subject column, who doesn't allow Blowgo's snowjobs to pile p on him.



The grammar of avoidance

In speaking to reporters recently about the corruption scandals swirling around his administration, Gov. Rod Blogojevich said that "lines were crossed".

You remember this from your school days as an example of the passive voice-a grammatical construction that turns the object of an action into the subject of a sentence. (uncle matt calls this talking crap)

And because passive-voice expressions often fail to specify who or what is doing the acting, weasels tend to rely on them.

A classic example, and one that Blagojevich's words brought to mind, is "mistakes were made," a political dodge Ronald Reagan popularized when he used it to explain the Iran-Contra scandal in his 1987 State of the Union.

So last week, a good start was made when Change of Subject readers and I embarked on an effort to tell the Rod Blagojevich story using only the passive voice.

Big promises were offered. State contractor donations were accepted. Fishy appointments were made. Huge gifts for children were accepted. Fights with fellow democrats were picked. Moral superiority and testicular virility was proclaimed. A father-in-law was thrown under the bus. Commutation and pardon chores were neglected. Reporters were dodged. Opportunities were squandered.[/align]