What Was to be Posted

The following is the article we had all ready to go when Chicago was announced as the Olympic winner. We were 99% convinced that it was in the bag for Chicago and we were prepared to spend the next seven years being proven correct about cost overruns, crooked contracting, connected payouts and all manner of typical Chicago perfidy.

We'll just say we've never been more happy to be wrong about something.

• We'd like to apologize to everyone reading.
  
  We're sorry we didn't do more to garner at least a single "No" vote in the City Council.
  
  We're sorry we didn't mobilize a hundred, maybe even a few hundred people to circulate petitions, make calls, get the word out to another few hundred people and start a grass roots campaign.
  
  But most of all, we're apologizing to our children, our grandchildren and yours. We're sorry we didn't vote these fools out of office years ago. We're sorry that you and your families and your friends are doomed to a crushing debt that won't be paid off for three and four generations when the Olympic Games come to Chicago. We're sorry that we couldn't save what was once one of the greatest cities in these United States from the hands of a common thief and his merry band of plunderers.

The Olympic committee made this entire post unnecessary. Chicago's doom may come to pass at the hands of a madman anyway - Shortshanks is going to be under a bit of pressure from here on out - but at least it's going to be a bit more difficult.