Novelist Clancy Sigal Asks: 'Why is LA So Boring?'

Early on in Clancy Sigal’s scintillating counterpunch.org deconstruction of the March 5 Los Angeles city election, he references Raymond Chandler‘s detective Philip Marlowe. As the piece rolls on, it’s easy to imagine a modernized screen version of that character voicing passages like this:

In Chicago, my home town, we all knew how to get something done: you sold your vote to a precinct captain who passed it along to an alderman and so on up a trail of corruption to the mayor’s office.

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