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 [...]
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 unusuallydevastating [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Deadly Israeli Airstrike Sparks Fury | Chicago Tribune When I head the news this morning, I was shocked, saddened and outraged. Then, I was ashamed, because the Secretary of State is still holding back from urging an immediate cease-fire. Why? Because the Israelis have told her they need a couple more weeks to drive out [...]
Seeing the Forest: Republican Says We Need A Dem Congress Pete McCloskey speaks out – the Revolt of the Elders, he calls it. I’m sure the Repugs call it something else. (tags: Republican CorruptRepublicans DeLay Abramoff) Bush Sees a Chance for Change to Sweep Mideast – New York Times “This is a moment of intense [...]
I started a really, really long post about our visit to the Museum of Science and Industry‘s Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, but then ecto and I had a parting of the ways and my post got totally messed up. I had a ton of links that were all formatted incorrectly, and then my attempts to [...]
My husband David and I met up with parents Shel and Leah, siblings Mitch and Gloria, and also Aunt Gwen for a day at the Museum of Science and Industry. Mom Leah had gotten tickets to the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit, but the real reason for the outing was the annual family celebration of Hannukkah [...]
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