Cat Food

Here's a funny thing (via 1115.org):

They’ve got a house in rural Texas and a nice home-office setup on Pennsylvania Avenue. But for tax purposes, President Bush and his wife, Laura, claim a Chicago post office box as their “home address.”

On the 1040 they signed, which the White House released last week, the listed home address is “Northern Trust Co., P.O. Box 803968, Chicago, IL 60680.”

As a Chicagoan, it's important to note that I'm disgusted and ashamed by this association. However, it comes as no surprise. My work brings me into regular contact with The Northern Trust Company, and I find that they're staffed by capable, hard-working, diligent, and intelligent Blue-State stock. If you want the people charged with the welfare of your finances to be productive, take your finances to a Blue State. Well, I guess there are some exceptions. For instance, Detroit:

[A] family was heartbroken and shocked Monday night because the remains of their 5-year-old cat Prowler had been found, partly in the garbage and partly in a pot in the neighbor’s refrigerator.

Prowler had been missing for a week, and police in Windsor say someone had killed the cat and cooked it and ate it. […] "From my understanding they drowned her," Sherry Hughes, the upset owner, [said]. "Then they skinned her and boiled her, with onions, and made a stew out of her, apparently. It’s very heartbreaking for my entire family."

[…] Police arrested a young woman and a young man, and while investigators fell short of saying the two confessed, they did say the motive apparently was hunger.