Someone’s awake.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay [2014 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C010201 03/01/2015 SLAY FOR MAYOR Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 2/28/2015 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

It’s not like finding a quarter under your pillow.

A question, via Twitter:

Ben Welsh ‏@palewire

@jrosenbaum Has Rex gotten any of these politicians to start pretending they like chess?3:39 PM – 1 Mar 2015

The only difference between politics and chess is that in politics a lot more people get hurt.