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
Sarah is 36. In the twisted world of pregnancy, 36 qualifies as geriatric. Most of us generally associate the word “geriatric” with broken hips, early bird dinners, and Florida, and I have delighted in making my wife the butt of many jokes involving Metamucil and mothballs. Her response…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio claims that the digital layers contained within the Obama birth-certificate PDF are evidence that it’s faked. If you have a scanner and Adobe Illustrator, you can play along with the debunking at home.
The GOP frontrunner has been the subject of criticism and derision for his gaffetastic relationship to his vast wealth. It’s hard out there for the authentically wealthy.
