Mar 8th, 2010
Between the transfer of Guantanamo Prisoners to the prison in Thompson, Illinois, and conversation today about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed possibly being tried there, I’ve had to endure a lot of handwringing and general, for lack of a better word, terror about what it would mean to have this guy “right in our back yard” as [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole “apply to be an alderman” thing that the Mayor threw out there a while back. I mean, yes, I’ve been continually (yet very quietly) organizing my campaign for about the last 4 or 5 years. I think maybe a dozen people know about it at this point. [...]
Feb 2nd, 2010
For about the last month or so, we’ve been wall-to-wall with flyers and commercials and ads and interviews and volunteers shoving pieces of paper in front of us at our El stops which are quickly balled up and thrown away. People have been shaking babies and kissing asses and – well, something like that. You [...]
Today’s release of an Esquire article featuring Ravenswood’s favorite citizen, Rod Blagojevich, has everyone talking because race makes people freak out in this country like nothing else. And we’ll probably be talking about it all week – or until Blago says something else with foot firmly ensconced in mouth.
But it’s what we’re not talking about [...]
Before we begin, do I have to explain the whole full-body screening thing to anyone? Yes? Over there, in the back, with your hand raised? You haven’t heard? Fine. We’ll give you a cliffs notes. A couple weeks ago some guy did something bad on an airplane and almost blew it up and now we [...]
Dec 2nd, 2009
Considering it’s been a really slow news week – where’s a balloon boy when you need him? – the White House Crashers, the Salahis, have pretty much been wall to wall for the past few days. When there’s not new updates about what Tiger Woods may or may not have said about ruining Thanksgiving to [...]