media blackout on secret elite meeting about north american integration

Try typing in “Banff” in a news search engine (say Google News) and see if you come up with anything. At this point, there appears to only be a few articles in various small Canadian presses. Why is this a problem? Because Sept. 12-14th, a major conference of elite government officials and [...]

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california makes car companies consider the actual cost of automobiles

As stated previously, in this humble blogger’s opinion, the rest of the country should be trying to follow in California’s footsteps in fighting global warming.  This now includes suing the corportations who reinforce the social structures (say, through millions of dollars in advertising supporting their product) causing the largest environmental concern we currently have simply [...]

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religion gets sexier

I feel that in the past week I’ve seen a surprising number of articles about religious perspectives on dating and sex pop up in the mainstream media. The New York Times today reports on the “marriage banquet” (aka ’speed dating for Muslims’) that happened at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention recently [...]

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love thy enemy or become thy enemy?

“I just think John McCain is wrong on this. If we capture bin Laden tomorrow and we have to hold his head under water to find out when the next attack is going to happen, we ought to be able to do it.”

Representative. Peter T. King (Rep-NY) and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, as [...]

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Curses on the weather!

So what, Chicago now has a rainy season? And it’s in September – September, the month that should be full of warm days and gently cool nights, sun and partial clouds, the last taste of summer before heading back to school? (Well, if you attend the University of Chicago, that is, and classes [...]

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travels afar via book and dreaming

A gray and rainy day in Hyde Park. As Jenna said, such days are only fit for books or museums: today’s choice is books. With cool, wet, green boughs outside my window I have been curled up and enjoying Edward Abbey’s stories of the scorching sun, wind-blown desert sand and dry creek beds [...]

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Chicago Adventures, Installment #2

Where, following a long tradition of badly-written trilogies and series, our author chooses to record events prior to the first installment after its publication, instead of in an actual prologue or introduction.
I did mean for these to go first, but then the other bit just came out.  At any rate, having a long weekend and [...]

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