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Have you ever noticed how funny it is watching people run for the train? It is a visual comedy.
The inner turmoil one expriences in that moment is manifest in the physicallity of a man in full suit NOT quite running for the train. The internal conflict:

If you run, you look like a dork, you could [...]

What the hell are we celebrating anyway?

At first I thought this book was a little on the silly side. S.E. Cupp and Brett Joshpe are trying to rebut a bunch of the myths out there about the Right. That they are “Elitest WASPs” for instance, or that they are “humorless,” or that they are “undemocratic,” “homophobic,” “foreigner-hating,” “warmongers.”
But why do I [...]

So, as most of you know, I’m frequently working from home these days. I am usually up and at it by 6:30 AM or so. Almost like clockwork, someone starts mowing the law right outside my window. I mean, like every day (not really every day, but close enough). It drives me nuts! I had [...]

I don’t have enough guts to ride my bike in the city and here’s why. Poor guy. Share the road people.

Perhaps this is a metaphor for our entrenched cultural addiction to Starbucks.

This is getting ridiculous. When Mayor Daley began installing surveillance cameras around the city several years ago, it was all about preventing crime. Since then, the crime rate has crept back up while the city uses the cameras to spy on motorists instead.
The latest. Fran Spielman reports that a city ordinance would allow surveillance cameras [...]

Sad but true:
A South Austin boy was killed Thursday afternoon when he tried to cross Cicero Avenue under a semitrailer truck that had stopped in traffic, Chicago police said.
Malick Brown, 10, of the 5100 block of West Monroe Street was killed about 4 p.m. when the truck, which had stopped on Cicero Avenue north of [...]

I’m unemployed still and things are getting a little tight. But I still can’t feel sorry for myself, while there are people in much greater need. Here are a couple of families you should consider helping:

Debbie Tepper passed away at the end of May. She left behind a husband in dire need of a kidney [...]

Yesterday was a disaster. I left Chicago on a Continental Airlines flight to Houston where I was set to transfer to a flight to Northwest Arkansas. We boarded the plane and were immediately delayed by a thunderstorm passing through the area. But this short delay soon stretched into an hour. Then an hour and a [...]