Jay Fitzgerald starts off our new parlor game:
... Add in some pedophilia scandals and you have the makings for nasty scripts that 'gritty' movie directors can't get enough of. ... Of course that's not to say Illinois isn't nasty. ...
The Outraged Liberal says nothing happening here compares to a governor (allegedly) trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat and blackmail a newspaper, but adds that doesn't mean we can't learn from our Illini cousins:
... Our corruption isn't the worst -- but neither is our system to prevent or discourage it. There are lessons aplenty to learn from Illinois.
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Are we crappier than New York?
By adamg
Wed, 12/10/2008 - 11:42am
A bouncer at a couple of New York nightclubs recounts a conversation with some patron from South Boston who was convinced Southie is more dangerous than the Big Apple:
Via Alicia.
all the "tough guys" he knew
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 12/10/2008 - 11:52am
If the tough guys are so tough that they kill everybody, how did he live to tell these tales then?
whiteys inner circle
By bostnkid
Wed, 12/10/2008 - 12:15pm
from all that ive read, if you knew about a murder chances are you were going to wind up dead too.whitey would enlist you to help him take somebody out but then you had to go too. the less you knew the better off you were.the less the people on the streets knew the safer whitey was. read the books, it was like a vicious circle.