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People confuse their cars with their homes. I can understand that. They're lounging in a reclining chair, talking on the phone, watching a movie and cramming salty foods into their fat faces. Sometimes they fall asleep. But the car is not the home. And when you steer your car on to public roads, you waive Constitutional rights enjoyed at home. Police can stop you without probable cause. Police can stop you without even particularized suspicion — just to see if …
| "Now you're making me burp," my mother declared, supine, from her hospital gurney. When they first wheeled rolled her into the Recovery Room, she couldn't say anything. Her tongue was dry and swollen. Her eyes rolled and darted. She was Anakin Skywalker, unmasked. Now, a few hours later, she could say anything, and did. Her sentences featured verb-subject-object structure. It was not abstract poetry. Only her meaning was completely indecipherable. She was in the room, but she was not really …
Welcome to a misleadingly titled piece on elective radical mastectomy. (To those of you hoping for boob pictures, I recommend National Geographic.) Toward the end of my research on the amazing Amy Cohen, I realized I'd missed the biggest heroic story in her big heroic story. Amy got bad results from medical tests on her "breast cancer gene." Following her sister's successful treatment for the disease, and remembering her mother's successful treatment in the 1970s, Amy decided she wanted to …
As Mica Swyers pointed out the other day it's moving time. There are lots of new people in town. And lots of others, ex-dorm residents, are experiencing homemaking for the first time. For you newbs who've just stepped off the boat, congratulations on finding Smile Politely already. You're on your way. Although it seems as if you've left civilization and landed in the sticks, we actually have a higher level of urbane sophistication here, what with the average I.Q. skewed …
Hello to you faithful six readers who've clicked through to SP despite the wholly unexpected Delightful Days of July, 2009. Why are you in town? Bucking the mainstream? Furthermore, what are you doing inside? Why are you reading the interweb? The Dog Days of August should afford you plenty of opportunity to skulk in basements, wondering whether you can dig yourselves any farther from the sun. Right now, you are the beneficiary of a meteorological anomaly. Go out into it, …
"Public health issues are very personal to me," she said, recounting how her father died of diabetes and hypertension, her mother from smoking-related lung cancer and her brother and only sibling from HIV-related complications. In each case, she said, her family members died from preventable diseases. This week Barack Obama nominated Regina Benjamin to be the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Because Benjamin is a black woman who stresses the value of preventative medicine, I can't help but …
I'm surprised no one has made mention of The Camera. Perhaps that's because we don't see The Camera. We see what The Camera sees. The Camera saw Mark Nepermann. And so you saw Mark Nepermann. But who's behind The Camera? IS IT BIG BROTHER? On September 11, Al Qaeda won the war against the United States by inspiring a surveillance state among us. Cleverly, they needed only 19 men to pull it off. We did the rest ourselves, subsequently adding …
The mob gathers pitchforks and torches. If Mark Nepermann avoids the death penalty, they'll see justice done themselves. Afterward, they'll march to the County Courthouse, pull State's Attorney Julia Rietz from her comfortable office, and boil her in hot tar. No published evidence suggests Mark Nepermann knew anything about the sign he pulled from a yard as he staggered home. Perhaps he interpreted its message correctly. Maybe he misinterpreted it. Maybe he is an anti-Chief activist, and wanted to put …
Jon Stewart is faltering. The First Voice of the American Realists must have smoked something that didn't agree with him, because he's vacillating toward pliability on The Defining Issue of Our Time. Last week, Stewart showed up completely unprepared, or possibly acquiescent for what he must have known was coming from the day Mike Huckabee's agent said "book it." Hucakabee spoke softly, carried a big stick, and a panoply factual misdirection. With these tools, he beat Stewart into fawning submission. …
Bill Maher has a mission: to disabuse believers of their faith. He wrote a book to convince Americans of our national oil addiction, and its financing of international Islamic terror. He made a movie to demonstrate the ridiculousness of modern American evangelical Christianity, and its similarities to international Islamic terror. (Richard Dawkins' version was better.) Now he's campaigning to get the Democrats' leadership, and anyone fed up with the GOP's backwardness, to recognize a simple truth: We won. This week, …
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The University does not subsidize the Airbus. For decades bus transportation to the airport was provided expressly for Institute of Aviation students. This service was paid for by the Institute of Aviation, not campus as a whole. Some of you may even remember the old orange or…
A book just published gives a very useful different perspective on the “growth for growth’s sake” model and its ecological unsustainability. It is “Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet” by Tim Jackson. The first chapter of the book can be downloaded via http://earthscan.co.uk/pwg . This…
I agree with most of the comments on the Orange “Krush.“ They are mostly immature, ignorant, college students who can’t wait for the next frat party so they can get wasted on Keystone light
“Since there is no congestion on 74, one wonders what he is talking about.“ - Duh. Perhaps the congestion is wishful thinking? And IL DOT is planning to spend $71 million taxpayer dollars widening I-74 between Champaign and Mahomet. I contacted IL DOT on the I-74 stuff. …
Great articles, btw.
Since 1994, the American Farmland Trust has had case studies which have shown that there is no net gain to developing farmland. On average the ratio of dollars generated by development to the cost of services provided by communities was $1 : $1.04. For farm land, the…
Stuart, Really a fantastic series of articles on this proposed road. The Chinatown analogy is very cool. I wouldn’t say that the local press has been lapdogs on this issue. One of the local TV news channels actually did a piece where they interviewed Mr. Ziegler, the…
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=4961547 I stand by it all, except in that I should’ve used better language to describe the types of fools these folks are. Calling someone a douchebag, is kinda like, being a douchebag. Strike that one from the record. Everything else, well, yeah…
Due to some unforeseen circumstances, part two will actually run Wednesday at 10 a.m. Thanks for your patience; it’ll be worth the wait!
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I received 1 st mortgage loans when I was not very old and that helped my business very much. But, I need the short term loan as well.
Nice article, Emily! When I get to the CU area, I’ll be sure to give this place a try.
The marathon is certainly a tough distance, but I imagine that it compares to childbirth. In any event, having completed the former, I will agree that it is an excruciating tastk. Should the opportunity arise, I will let you know how the latter compares.
I’ve always suspected that there’s a direct correlation between projected land use for the Rt 150 corridor [Industrial / Commercial] and the drive to expand 74. See the CCRPC Future Land Use Map for details, and then take a look at who owns land there, and you…
Zelini, I really like this - I’ll try to follow the theory more closely. As they reveal more about Kate (possibly next week), it might give us more perspective. I agree with your observation about Ben and I think Michael Emerson has done an excellent job conveying his lesser stature.
Surprised you think it will take two wins. I think we have a shot to get in with another loss. The bubble is just a disaster this year, and we’ll float to the top even with one win.
What if the sideways alternatives are where Jacob actually grants them their wishes, but in ways they didn’t quite expect? The elimination of one regret. Sayid gets to be with Nadia - although through his brother. Maybe he ends up with her at the expense of his…
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This also explains why I was starting to think Roses & Sake was a group of strange pagans from Vancouver. This is when it pays to be a local. My apologies to the true Roses & Sake, we’ll fix this ASAP!
Ahh, shame on me. I grabbed it directly off of Mike ‘N Molly’s website. I’ll see if I can’t get it corrected on here (and maybe pass along the word to them as well). Thank you, observant reader!
I’m with Brigham regarding the Acrylics set. Very XX-ish. Very good.
i think the roses & sake link is actually: http://www.myspace.com/rosesnsake
Dangit! Now I have to go home and try that cake. MMMmmMMMMmmmm looks goood. Cakey cakey cakey…
Very nice preview…I’m stoked to be seeing The Young Republic
I understood this totally differently than the other people that posted…this is what I got from it: - the more background you have going in, the more of the allusions you will understand when watching - afterwards, you can do a little research to fill in the…
Sorry about the lack of address and hours. All I can say is duuuh
Amen. When I told people I’ve lost 18 pounds since early October the number one response I get from women is concern. 18 pounds in four months is not unhealthy, quite the opposite for me. But don’t give up on sugar, or become a vegan, or do…
The whole self-acceptance idea is tricky in itself too. Are we supposed to self-accept by sitting around like bumps on logs, doing nothing but just appreciating and accepting ourselves? Life doesn’t happen like that. I like your point about pushing ourselves to do something greater. Self-challenge and self-reflection…
lindsey - i certainly understand where you are coming from on that one. and i just wanted to state for the record that in no way did i mean to imply that i am not a feminist (or a liberal) just that i find that whole…
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I’ve always suspected that there’s a direct correlation between projected land use for the Rt 150 corridor [Industrial / Commercial] and the drive to expand 74. See the CCRPC Future Land Use Map for details, and then take a look at who owns land there, and you…