Carol Marin: My brain is withering in the July heat. So when I finish writing this, I'm off to vacation for two weeks. But before I go, there are a few words I'd like to reconsider. Wednesday, I wrote a column about the state Legislature and the blood feud between Gov. Blagojevich and Speaker of the House Mike Madigan. In it, I used a term I'd like to take back.
What do Barack Obama, the legislative morass in Springfield, and a constitutional convention have in common?
If you're headed to Illinois' most popular beach this weekend, what do you know about asbestos fibers in the sand you'll be sitting on or your kid is making a sandcastle with?
There it was, right in front of me, the face of the Dump Todd Stroger Revolution. I witnessed it at the Starbucks on Racine and Wrightwood at 6:38 a.m. Tuesday.
Barack Obama, elegant practitioner of political pragmatism, sounded passionless last week talking about guns. His careful tiptoeing after the Supreme Court's landmark decision overthrowing a Washington, D.C., handgun ban gave Republican John McCain the opening his wobbling campaign has been aching for.






