illinois elections: green party candidate for governor

Local elections are coming up soon; November 7th to be exact. I just received my voter registration card in the mail this week, and it occurred to me maybe I should be a little better informed about what’s going on. As it turns out, there’s a Green Party candidate, Rich Whitney, running for [...]

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the gnarly jesus psycho

Sometimes, reality seems as though it’s being scripted by some sort of sadistic, comic genius.  But the truth is that real life could never be made up by someone else; it’s far too strange for that.
This comment is mostly inspired by two articles on Stephen Baldwin’s evangelism ministry which I read earlier this week: “Dude, [...]

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convergence

Wednesday evening Ben and I attended Sustainable Convergence, hosted by the Foresight Design Initiative.  Held inside Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, it was a chance to see the Massive Change exhibit, to check out exhibitors with the Chicago Sustainable Enterprise Fair, and to eat good organic food (served, by the way, on completely biodegradable plates [...]

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Ah, the naive plans of the inexperienced blogger…

First, there was my hope to do a series of “check out Chicago” posts with the rest of my free time before the term started, as I ran around to the zoo, to various new neighborhoods (that is, new for me) to buy a used bike (from A Nearly New Shop, nicely outfitted with lock [...]

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