Epidemic of Suicides

Kass notices an epidemic of well known suicides:

• When politicos play musical chairs in Illinois, what happens after the music stops and there's no safe place to sit?
  
  There have been four dead in recent years, unrelated cases of suicide, different except for the acts of the common pageant: The corruption investigators call. The music ends abruptly.
  
  Two were done in by guns, one on a beach, the other under a bridge. A third was by pills in a construction trailer.
  
  The fourth came Friday morning during rush hour, announced by that body under that white sheet on the Metra tracks in McHenry County.

Kass calls them "buffers."

We call them "fall guys."

And the media and prosecutors always seem unable to look beyond the fall guy to see who's actually pulling the corrupt strings. Someone always answers to someone else in power, especially in this city, county and state.