Monday, March 14, 2005

Give a Nigga a Break

The lonely traveler will find himself the object of discrimination in Chicago. The city of two airports, O'Hare and Midway, hides a sinister--derived from the Latin, meaning "left-handed"--secret: rental cars are color-coded. A full-size Ford Taurus at O'Hare rents for $59.67 for a three-day weekend; the same car goes for $101.69 at Midway.

The difference? Why, Midway sits at 55th (some would say "Garfield Boulevard") and Cicero, on the edges of darky-town and an area being swallowed up by a tidal wave of Latin migrants. O'Hare, with its long delays, is nestled in a special annexed section of the northwest suburb of Rosemont, so white that nearby the AHL's Chicago Wolves play in Allstate Arena in front of legions of soulless, khaki-clad middle management drones.

That extra $42 would go a long way towards paying for Mr. Bush's ill-gotten Iraqi oil to power the Ford that pays the lobbyists to ask the Senators to protect the interests of the multinational corporations that run the house that Rockefeller built. Or is that too hard to follow? Is it...

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