Seen in Chicago. So global warming itself is not certain, but its disastrous negative consequences are? My, how he mighty Paul Volcker has fallen.

Also seen in Chicago, here are some of those fatcats that Obama and McCain are always villifying.

More Chicago. Is this that drain that Volcker was talking about?

More Chi. I often marvel at the mysterious use of quotation marks in signage. But here's a new mystery. Just what does the elipsis here do? Create suspense as one drives behind this truck?

Last one from Chicago -- the city that works, and the city that is happy in its work. Goes to show that status systems exist everywhere throughout the society and the economy (and that pride is a powerful motivator, no matter how trivial it may seem to one outside the status circle involved).