Just submitted this to the Chicago papers about the three-year “transit hell” beginning Monday. We’ll see if it’s printed:
The Chicago Transit Authority has a pattern of making extremely poor decisions that work against its primary mission, a mission it seems to have lost sight of: to serve as the blood vessels through which Chicago’s [...]
Well, I’m introducing some new things to Musings of a Chicagoan. First, I’ve joined Twitter. Well, again. I zapped my account and so on earlier because I saw no use for it; but now, I’m beginning to kind of understand the microblogging potential for it, and I’ve got Twitter set to automatically [...]
Maybe he’ll go away :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Neil Steinberg
“[Y]ou can get your forearm blown off by a roadside bomb, and we’ll put you in harm’s way to facilitate that. But if you want to tattoo an American flag on that arm while you still have it, well that violates our high moral standards.”
(tags: politics [...]
Bush Administration Has Double-Secret Private Communication System - Wonkette
It’s GWB43.COM, owned by the Republican National Committee, and is used by a lot of White House staffers, including Karl Rove, so that there won’t be any record on the White House e-mail system.
(tags: politics horrifying dumbfuck censorship fascist)
Unofficial Apple Weblog: iTunes Complete My Album feature
Not a [...]
Man, I used to like my eyeballs.
MC Rove
Steinberg thinks you can live in the suburbs and still consider yourself a Chicagoan. Try again.
If you live in Northbrook, you’re not a Chicagoan. You’re now a Northbrook suburbanite, Steinberg, not a Chicagoan.
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Chicagoist: Wells Street or 5th Avenue?: “Wells was well-known as a street of ill repute — meaning, of course, lots [...]
Consumerist: Fen-Phen Lawyers Run Off With $126 Million of $200 Million Settlement
Corrupt bastards.
(tags: corrupt dumbfuck)
“In Memory of Persistence” — a nice short-short story homage to the malicious ways that the memory-zap technology we see in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” could be employed.
(tags: movies scifi powerful)
No Exchange: Best Buy Manager Tries To Void XBOX [...]
The New York Times did an article about the Chicago subway system falling apart.
(tags: chicago subway food4thought reference)
Wil Wheaton recounts how he finally groks why people hated Wesley Crusher. “Hell, I hated him after watching this one.”
(tags: scifi tv funny)
The Onion: Anna Nicole Smith Finally Reaches Target Weight (AW, MAN! THAT’S *AWFUL!*)
“Several sources [...]
Ron D. Moore, the creator of Battlestar Galactica, answered a few questions for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about aspects of the season four finale, and the future of the series. It contains a lot of good stuff, and contains some solid commentary and “rulings” that will help trim some of the theories and speculation down.
Old Shatner to appear with young Shatner on Boston Legal
“Shatner’s character, Denny Crane, will be taken hostage by a man who holds a grudge against him stemming from a 50-year-old court case. That means that the 76-year-old Shatner will be paired with the 26-year-old Shatner throughout the show.”
(tags: cool goodideas tv trek scifi)
A haunting, beautiful moment on the “xkcd” webcomic.
… and the “universe upset” it created.
Just watched the last “Battlestar Galactica” episode of season three. An interesting experience. I’m going to do the WordPress equivalent of a “cut tag” here, so that if you’ve not seen it, or not seen this season, you won’t read farther.
This is simultaneously hysterical and so very, very cruel!
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Chicagoist: Oak Lawn Students in the Slammer
(tags: useful cool woohoo you_go_boy)
Consumerist: Walmart’s Ailing Recall System
(tags: interesting)
Oh, dear Lord. Homina.
(tags: celebrity images woohoo)
ABC: “Gay Illinois couples would be allowed to enter civil unions with the same legal rights as marriage under legislation approved Wednesday by an Illinois House committee.”
Really quite cool.
(tags: cool gay_issues)
White House Spokesman Tony Snow: “The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress [...]
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