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over the past six months or so since the chicago suntimes decided to become a selfproclaimed voice of progressive views i have had to grit my teeth through week after week of truly illogical and poorly thought out leftist editorials. but finally friday the suntimes editorial board actually produced an editorial the parking ticket geek can say he agrees with. the newspaper comes out very strongly a...
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a collection of thoughts for your edification.a do you have one that you think should be added to the collection only the man who believes thinks alain amileauguste chartier at the risk of sounding harsh there are realities that women need to face not every tragedy matters. not every extreme emotion is righteous. no man is ever truly going to understand what it means to be female because they neve...
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the room seems to be spinning. i think im going to vomit. the chicago suntimes is reporting mayor daley proposed a plan wednesday to change the number of tickets that trigger a boot from three tickets to only two. two tickets are you kidding me i need to lay down for a minute. read the suntimes piece and perhaps ill have some thoughts afterward. daleys plan makes more vehicles boot eligible ci...
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suntimes.com the religious group christian voice is up in arms over a soontobereleased barbie doll dressed as the dc comic book heroine black canary. the group claims the look is too provocative. the latter is proving to be a bit too racy for the u.k.based christian organization christian voice. the religious group is up in arms over a soontobereleased barbie doll dressed as the dc comic book her...
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weve already pointed out that everyblock rocks. and apparently our local print outlets feel the same. recently the tribune and suntimes both partnered with the chicagobased hyperlocal news and info aggregator. each papers website now features one of everyblocks custom city maps geocoded with recent news stories from the outlet. this allows readers to zoom into their neighborhood or right...
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at milwaukee brewers record 6045 hitting stats pitching stats fielding stats game log team history jsonline chicago cubs record 6144 hitting stats pitching stats fielding stats game log team history arlington daily herald chicago suntimes chicago tribune miller park game 1 wisconsin state quarter collection monday july 28 705pm ct tv fsnh...
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this past week had a few minor announcements from city hall that pertain to my odd obsession with parking tickets. the first is that the plan to put cameras on street sweepers made it out of city council committee. according to a report by the suntimes some of the alderman on the committee were uneasy about this law because of the lack of consistent signage on street cleaning days. streets and san...
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human speech originated with singing fish. midshipman fish singing to attract a mate credit nicolle rager fuller national science foundation radiohead video uses no cameras just 3d plotting for a very stunning effect ht oranchak. shucks. oscar pistorius amputee sprinter with cyborg legs failed to qualify for the olympic games possibly because hes spent the last six months in legal battles...
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sad news for fans of ebert roeper and fans of good film reviews. they are officially leaving at the movies the show that introduced ebert siskel and the thumbs up and down ratings. richard roeper joined roger ebert on the show after gene siskels death. ebert has long been absent from the show for health reasons. several guest critics have filled in but only a few have even come close to eberts hi...
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apple phone show episode 62 july 18 2008 scott bourne executive producer podango productions andy ihnatko cohost celestial waste of bandwidth and suntimes chris breen cohost macworld share this......
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...or homes for sale in her article today this site tops for search results. kay ran the same search for a house in evanston priced between 400k and 500k with at least 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on the suntimes.com and the chicagotribune.com. she concluded that since her site returned 18 homes and the chicagotribune.com only returned 15 that her site is the best bet. i respectfully disagree. the sunti...
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this week brad john hamer and kristine podcast the old fashioned way together in the same room gathered around a laptop and a low tech mic. the result unmitigated hilarity. young smiths first publication. the best mormon blog you arent reading. were mormon too plus a follow up sw reenactments rule......
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filed under ramsrobert weintraub has a piece in the columbia journalism review that laments the disappearance of great local sports columnists and while weintraub refers to wellcrafted columns about the local sports team as a dying art as i read the piece i kept thinking of the way tony kornheiser described newspapers not dying dead.show me the highestprofile sports columnist in almost any america...
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apple phone show episode 61 july 4 2008 scott bourne executive producer podango studios andy ihnatko cohost celestial waste of bandwidth and suntimes chris breen cohost macworld share this......
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...ts from the rezko files among them he violated bail terms and had a net worth of 53 million if sitelife enabled true gsitelife.recommendexternalresource 1037607cstnwswatchdog03 httpwww.suntimes.comnewswatchdogs1037607cstnwswatchdog03.article if true a by tim novak chris fusco andrew herrmann and steve patterson convicted political fixer tony rezko had a hard time following r...
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june 27 2008 scott bourne executive producer podango studios andy ihnatko cohost celestial waste of bandwidth and suntimes chris breen cohost macworld in this weeks episode andy ponders about the ripple effect the new iphone 3g will have on the smart phone market and how the other big players like nokia and google will react. chris brings you up to speed on the latest iphone news and nonnews...
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dont even bother to read my post on firefox 3.0 go read andys post from the chicago suntimes. hell go bookmark andys column index over there hes a better writer then ill ever be and certainly dig out out his blog from teh sidebar on the right. worth a read if only for the last 3 paragraphs which sum up much of tech writing and all the hype on firefox.......
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apple phone show episode 59 june 19 2008 scott bourne executive producer podango studios andy ihnatko cohost celestial waste of bandwidth and suntimes chris breen cohost macworld on this weeks show chris breen is unable to make todays show because this skype isnt cooperating. this week scott and andy have another roundtable style discussion. discussion about att scott wants to talk about th...
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the religion of pieceseurope and especially france is sitting on a time bomb with its growing and insulated muslim population. we may have already seen the first signs of explosion with the murder of theo van gogh but his death is not an isolated incident. mark steyn notes that antisemitic violence is growing while the news media of europe remains mostly silent about itin five years time how many ...
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best actress nominees diane keaton nominated for somethings gotta give fullfrontal nudity.diane was 57 when she stripped nekkid for the big laugh in somethings gotta give. a less courageous actress might have insisted on a headandshoulders shot but diane did the right thing to make the scene work and also to generate some profitable buzz about the film. miss keaton did previous screen nudi...
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imagea www.freeimage.co.uk the chicago sun times and probably a lot of chicagoans are highly anticipating the top chef finale tonight.a in a recent article they gave their argument for all the reasons why stephanie izard should be declared the next top chef.a it boils down to ten. misha davenport for the chicago sun times heres why shes tops 10. after four seasons and three male winners its time f...
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after presenting 12 witnesses in two days r. kellys defense team rested its case in his child pornography trial yesterday according to the chicago suntimes.a missing from the witness stand was the alleged victim.a although she testified before the grand jury that she is not the girl in the infamous video kellys defense team did not call her to the stand. popsquires perspective failing to call a ke...
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i received the following email from a reader any suggestions on what to do with money that id like to have earning at least a little interest but need to be able to access quickly im thinking perhaps a money market but im not sure where to find a good one. this kind of money which commonly is an emergency fund is what is called chicken money a term i credit to terry savage of the chicago suntimes...
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