Mighty Quinn
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher, Investor, Consultant |
| Location | Naperville, IL |
| Introduction | Democrat? Republican? As a guy with no patience for liars, fools, or hypocrites, Mighty Quinn has a healthy disdain for pols of both parties. A professional investor and lifelong observer of politics, Mark Quinn examines global politics primarily, but not exclusively, from a financial perspective. Mr. Quinn also writes extensively on the politics of Chicago, where he grew up surrounded by pros at the art and science of fleecing the taxpayers and enriching their pals. National pols can only gawk as they aspire to such heights of political chicanery. In addition to Mighty Quinn on Politics and Money, Quinn also writes The Insightful Pontificator. Formerly the repository his political and financial posts, the Pontificator now features Mr. Quinn’s ruminations on faith and religion. Some have suggested it is written to atone for the often ferocious rants one finds on the Mighty Quinn site. Mr. Quinn was a featured writer on the Rant Political and Rant Finance sites. He has also written two novels on Chicago politics, The Chairman and The Chairman’s Challenge. Both do for Chicago politics what The Godfather did for the New York Mob. |
| Interests | Politics, investing, faith, cars, the humor inherent in the human condition |
| Favorite movies | The Godfather, Parts I and II Dr. Srangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Goodfellas Casino Fargo The Last Hurrah The Maltese Falcon Casablanca The Roaring Twenties The Best Years of Our Lives The Raging Bull Rocky (just about all of them) |
| Favorite music | Big Band Standards as sung by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sammy Davis Classic R&B, especially the tunes of Jerry Butler and Marvin Gaye Country as sung by Hank Williams, Sr., Johnny Cash, and Patsy Cline Copeland Mozart |
| Favorite books | The Bible My novels on Chicago politics, The Chairman and The Chairman’s Challenge The Godfather A Man of Honor, by Joe Bonanno Bill Roemer’s books on the Chicago Outfit Don’t Make No Waves, Don’t Back No Losers, by Milton Rakove The Great Gatsby Plunkett of Tammany Hall, A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics The Valachi Papers Operation Family Secrets, by Frank Calabrese, Jr. American Pharaoh, Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago |