Bruce who?
Recently I had a dream that some friends of mine and I were visiting the State Capitol together. While we were in the cafeteria getting lunch, the cashier and I engaged in idle chit-chat about how I was going to pay for the food. He made a joke about how he'd make sure my payment was enforced by the state. I ended this exchange with the following joke: "I could get away with not paying because this state doesn't have a Governor anyways." See, because the Governor ensures the enforcement of the state's laws... Anyway, it was then that I saw the cashier's face for the first time. It was Bruce Rauner, and he was giving me a very sour look. I woke up before he could send me away to one of his neglectful nursing homes . During last week's state budget crisis , I saw an opinion piece from the Chicago Tribune make the rounds on Facebook. It was supposed to be in the vein of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," wherein the author fa...