A small miracle occurred in Chicago this week. Something truly unexpected that brought relief and joy to city residents. It hasn’t happened in years. Some residents thought it wouldn’t occur again in their lifetimes. A high-ranking public official was held to account for gross corruption. The former chief of the Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, pled guilty to criminal charges for steering city contracts to a former employer in exchange for kickbacks. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who appointed Byrd-Bennet, courageously took responsibility for wearing the wrong tie today. He acknowledged he should have known to wear the red one with the diagonal stripes, not the one with horizontal stripes, a design that caused some people to make an unconscious association with those old-fashioned prison uniforms. Byrd-Bennett could be sentenced to up to five years of watching last night’s Democratic presidential debate. Indeed, the debate is also being used as part of a new gun control scheme. Instead of background checks, potential gun buyers just have to watch the full two hours of debate while consistently maintaining a smile on their faces. Anyone who can do that is deemed responsible enough to own a firearm.