I will resist the blasphemous puns

I can't say that I'm thrilled, but facts are facts, Chicago is Chicago, and President Obama's notoriously foul-mouthed former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has been elected as Chicago's "new !@#$%!! mayor," to quote one of the major news magazines.

Emanuel defeated his closest rival- the guy I would have voted for, City Colleges of Chicago Board chairman Gery Chico- by better than thirty points yesterday, garnering 55.2% of the vote in the first round and avoiding the runoff which would have occurred had no candidate received a majority. 

Unlike both is namesake and his former boss, Mayor-elect Emanuel is unlikely to be thought by anybody to be a messiah- unless its by the Chicago Machine, whose unnaturally long life has seemingly been extended into the indefinite future by the election of yet another strongman as its head.