VII. Miscellaneous(58) Please provide the URL address of any websites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, etc.)
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Cubs Fandom in a NutshellThe event opened with emcee Jim Belushi singing "Sweet Home Chicago.".
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The real revelation of the last few weeks, however, has been just how erratic Mr. McCain’s views on economics are. At any given moment, he seems to have very strong opinions — but a few days later, he goes off [...]
When a Cubs fan becomes a TSA employee, do you calculate his jerk-ass factor by averaging the Cubs fan base score (8/10) and the TSA base score (9/10) for an 85% jerk-ass cumulative, do you use the highest score for 90% jerk-ass.
I wonder -- Does John McCain think he first met his veep pick at this Life magazine cover shoot?Your Chicago Sun-Times asks the musical question, "Why is GOP sneering at Obama's work as community organizer?":
Republicans insist that people should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Communities should take care of their own and not depend on big government to do the job. And the folks who' [...]
From the Washington Post:Democrats accused Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Sunday of misrepresenting her role in scuttling a controversial bridge project to a remote island in southeast Alaska.
From the Washington Post:Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state's political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.Alaska's Palin Faces ProbeNow, one of the bright new stars in the Republican Party has suddenly become tarnished. The state legislature this week voted to hire an independent investigator to [...]
Eight years ago Barack Obama was thoroughly humiliated at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.
He had recently lost a congressional primary in Chicago, and both his political and personal bank accounts were empty. The rental car company rejected his credit card. He failed to get [...]
"It makes sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities, because these days they're awfully hard to tell apart."
-- Hillary R. Clinton, D-NY.
If a 176+ pound Olympic bronze medal contender and former Olympic taekwondo gold medalist can blindside a referee by kicking him in the face but not even knock him down, taekwondo is officially not a martial art.In each of those instances, on a scale [...]I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
So I read this book called Drunkard by Neil [...]
According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the [...]
The 3-year-old boy who fell into Lake Michigan's frigid waters while strapped in his stroller in April has fully recovered, defying the odds and celebrating today with the firefighters, paramedics, doctors and nurses who saved him.
Little Lazar Ognjenovic was out for a walk with [...]
Hiram Wurf has some thoughtful analysis from Lindy Scott, former director of Wheaton College's Center for Applied Christian Ethics and former 6th District Congressional Candidate, on McCain's messian-shtick ad, "The One".You know... sighHi [Austin] this is Dan... and I was listening to the radio and in the lead story on the news was George Fucking Bush talking about how wrong Russia's aggression is... [...]
The Yemeni man convicted at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial will be eligible for release in less than five months after receiving a light sentence from a jury made up of U.S. military officers.I'm starting to suspect that the Muslims held at Gitmo might not, in [...]
McCain Pimps Out His Wife in Sturgis
While at the Buffalo Chip Campground near Sturgis for the Sturgis Bike Rally yesterday, putative GOP nominee John McCain essentially pimped out his wife Cindy to the rowdy throng. [...]
Oak Park resident Bill Thomasson may be legally blind, but he doesn't feel all that disabled.
Macular degeneration hasn't prevented the freelance medical writer and political activist from serving on the organizing committee for the [...]
Q.1 Whom will Barack Obama choose as his running mate?
A1: Chelsea Clinton. She will secure the Clinton supporters and make Obama seem much older.
Q.2 [...]
[Steinberg's] amazing snobbery does not help endear him to the reader. He sees the people in his AA group as beneath him; he blames [his wife] Edie for his troubles; he gets bored listening [...]
John and Cindy McCain have failed to pay taxes on their California beach-front condo for the last four years and are currently in default.
John Callaway's interview with Neil Steinberg will air this evening at 7 p.m. on WTTW Channel 11's "Chicago Tonight."Barack Obama is telling supporters to watch for his critics to play the race card, even if it is turned over in a subtle way.The Illinois senator cast the the coming election as a choice between hope and fear, with, [...]
We are committed to determining the basic architecture and sectioning of the paper within 30 days; deciding on paging (how many and where) within 45 days; understanding our staffing levels throughout the paper in 60 days; and being [...]
Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after collapsing. He was 58.Steinberg examines in unrelenting detail how he had been drinking -- sometimes up to 40 [...]
[Steinberg's] sixth book, Drunkard, is fascinating.
Way to unify the party, HRC!You HAVE LOST the nomination. There are NO MORE primaries. And you're urging your supporters to nurse their bitter feelings on your web site, and keep selling their bikes to give you money [...]
Japan is the true fast-food nation, and Tokyo's food-on-the-run is vast [...]
"A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun." -- Bo Diddley A DuPage County state lawmaker was charged with drunken driving early Wednesday morning in Springfield.
State Rep. Bob Biggins, an Elmhurst Republican, was arrested and booked on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol at roughly 1 a.m. Wednesday on the capital city's [...]
Well they're some sad things known to manPart II by Jill Iscol on Huffington Post:
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around
Oh yeah, baby baby, oh yeah baby baby
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