Just 17% of 22-year-old men in Chicago voted in the spring primary, compared with 55% of 66-year-old women. C’mon guys — can’t we do better than that? [Source: Trib]

Ah, and I’ll be traveling in lovely Cascadia over the next week. My bike’s already on its way across the Great Plains (via Amtrak, which turns out to be a great way to ship things across the country at little cost — and which involves descending into the bowels of Union Station), and I’ll join it on Thursday in Seattle.