Opinion

A job candidate has to be pretty stupid, or pretty something, to take a drug test when he knows he isn't going to pass it. Yet between February and November, 60 people offered jobs with DCFS or one of the private social service agencies it contracts with took and failed a drug test. That's 2 percent of candidates.

The big story this week - except for, you know, that recession thing - has been Barack Obama's new team, and while it's more center-right than many people, friend or foe, had expected, it's basically fine - as long as it can implement Obama's campaign proposals like a pull-out from Iraq in as little as 16 months, etc.