The latest figure to arise from the president’s past is a controversial Harvard Law prof, captured in grainy video by PBS and popularized by the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart. Bell was indeed radical—but he spent most of his career in conflict with liberals. In lies a much more rich tale than a few minutes of pseudo-scoop tells.
Bed rest. Just say the words and women cringe. Then they offer to bring over lasagne. Sarah’s been having crazy pains all over her body, especially in that special contraction zone, which makes O.B.s awfully nervous—and ours, the unflappable Dr. Harth, finally told Sarah that if working was causing her pain, then stop working. So she has…
The Illinois primary has suddenly become interesting—in fact, it may be the “stopper” this year, putting away the race for Mitt Romney if he solidifies his momentum and does well. Plus: the brilliant Bears quarterback who gave Mitt his name.
A coronal mass ejection is headed our way. It doesn’t look like it’ll do much damage—like the one that took out a Chicago-San Francisco transcontinental telephone line back in 1972—but it might get the northern lights down this way.
Some people are still sore about Chicago not getting the Olympics, a wound re-opened by the G8 mess. But in trying and failing, we might have won by losing.
Hactivist Jeremy Hammond, practitioner of not-so-civil disobedience, gets busted by the feds… for the second time in his young life. It’s practically a replay of his first arrest.
In the day since Chicago got the G8 swept out from under us, there has been much lamentation about how the Second City just can’t catch a break. But the NATO summit is the one the cool kids actually enjoy. And anyway, not everyone can be Kananaskis (or Heiligendamm).
America’s longest-serving inmate, incarcerated by the state of Illinois since 1946, passed away after a decades-long battle to clear his name, equaled only by the efforts of his victim’s sister to keep him in prison. Doubts surrounding his guilt, however, are likely to persist.
The G8 says thanks-but-no-thanks to Chicago, as it moves its annual summit to the sort of place that it seems most comfortable: an impregnable resort with a history of hosting the very powerful.
THE ICEMEN COMETH: Corey Crawford has one of the loneliest jobs in sports. But now he’s got company: his backup and potential replacement, Ray Emery
