By David Rutter

1. DuPage County, WTF?
The reality of public life and what constitutes free speech has tilted so far into the twilight that spending public money this way appears to have no antidote. Who knows, maybe real folks who work for their wages and hope to live normal lives have become so inured to this trend that it no longer seems philosophically preposterous. Even Alice eventually forgot she was in a bad dream.
It didn’t take the Supreme Court ruling on “corporate free speech” to validate this insanity, but eventually the inertial forces make this oozing slide back to the primordial pool as inevitable as a noxious glacier.

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Posted on September 9, 2011

By The Beachwood Chicago Way Affairs Desk

“Chicago Opener also known as Red Hot Mama is a card routine in which the back of a freely selected card changes color (e.g. from blue to red) and is set aside,” IllusionWiki explains. “A second card is selected and the red-backed card is seen to have transformed into the second selection.”
Here’s a tutorial from Yovah Magic, uploaded this weekend.

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Posted on September 6, 2011

By David Rutter

1. Sara Lee, WTF?
WTF’s bullshit meter was wailing aplenty this week with word from Sara Lee’s boss sodium sifter Christopher J. Fraleigh who apparently managed an entire speech on the health effects of Sara Lee products without ever coming close to a true statement.
His basic theory is that President Obama is making his life hell by requiring Sara Lee products to contain less sodium. The horror.
Sara Lee’s new corporate motto – “Fatter Kids; Fatter Profits” – was not in evidence in this particular dog-and-pony exhibit.

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Posted on September 2, 2011