Gapers Block has ceased publication.

Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Sen. Barack Obama brought 16 Democratic governors to Chicago today for a party unity/executive leadership meet-n-greet. Conspicuously absent from the love fest was — wait for it — our home state governor Rod Blagojevich, who, according to a spokesperson, was busy overseeing the Downstate crisis. Which presumably means the flooding, and not, say, his 17% approval rating.

 
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