Work From Home Couple

I sometimes think that the state prisons in Illinois should be named after our state’s former governors. After all, the odds are good that at any given time, you’ll find an Illinois governor or former governor stewing in one of their cells.

Our bad-haired Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested yesterday. He was convicted, among many, many things, of trying to sell the Illinois Senate seat left behind by incoming president Barack Obama. He also threatened to withhold financial assistance to the Tribune Company, which is trying to sell the Chicago Cubs, unless it fired certain editors he did not like.

No, Gov. Blagojevich is not exactly one of the good guys. He also has a bit of a potty mouth to go with that awful haircut of his. The official transcript of Blago’s indictment is filled with language that everyone in my house last heard this weekend when I spent the entire day building an entertainment cabinet for my living room.

Anyway, because I do work from home, I was able to take a few minutes here and there to watch the press conferences and press coverage of Gov. Rod’s big day yesterday. Yes, he was led away from his home in handcuffs yesterday. Very humiliating, I’m sure.

He’s the sad part, though. If our scummy governor is convicted, he’ll undoubtedly serve his time in a fairly comfortable jail. Meanwhile, the local drug dealer — who’s been surrounded by poverty and bad breaks his or her entire life — will go the kind of jail where you don’t want to turn you back on anyone. What if we put white-collar criminals — who do far more harm than any one drug dealer ever does — into the worst of the worst of our prisons? Think the prospect of spending some quality time with murderers might not stop a government official or two from robbing from his or her constituents? I think it must might.

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