Reality-based in spite of my best efforts
Breaking: Lieberman tries the smear | TPMCafe
(tags: DINO Lieberman Lamont Politics)
Playing politics on public television Mayor William Shaw and brother Robert use Dolton’s cable station to harass rivals without rebuttal | Chicago Tribune
Badly written, worse edited, but still interesting reading about how a cable access show is used to play dirty politics in South Chicago
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I read something online recently about how “climate change” and “global warming” just don’t cut it as sufficiently frightening metaphors for the rising sea levels, melting ice caps and glacierrs, unusually hotweather in summer, unusually mild weather in winter, alternating deluges and droughts depending on which part of the country you live in, and [...]
David and I tried a couple of times to see Syriana - both times we weren’t able to get tickets and left rather than wait around for the next show. Then, we ended up missing it because it wasn’t playing the next time we felt like seeing a movie. I think we’ll end up renting [...]
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Airport handling more US flights
(tags: Bombs WarByProxy War MiddleEast)
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid
Women and children killed in raid on Qana
(tags: Lebanon Israel War Bombs)
Many wave off heat warnings | Chicago Tribune
We saw the signs on the tollway [...]
Did these guys call each other before they got dressed for their big day out going to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry? Here they are, purchasing transit cards, which probably means they’re tourists. Their caps are all perfect fits for their perfectly round heads - they looked like a set of bobbleheads that decided [...]