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By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “War planes bomb hungry civilians.”
For those who despair at the planet’s lack of progress from year to year, consider this:
Soon everyone will have computerized drones to bomb hungry civilians.
Posted on December 31, 2012
By J.J. Tindall
More Than a Feeling
Dude brought a rifle to school,
Naperville Central, 1978.
He was from India
and he wasn’t fitting in. His father
was a prominent physician
and they moved to town
late into our midst, he was maybe
a junior (Jesus! New Guy!).
Posted on December 29, 2012
By Chuck Jines
“Tension City” is a series of photos that were captured on the streets of Chicago showing the tension of 2012. Nothing is posed, just snapped in the moment.
Posted on December 24, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
QT Christmas News You Can Use:
A reminder to those who are out of work while the merriment happens all around:
The outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas will offer free job search and career advice to anyone who calls on Dec. 27 and 28.
The number is (312) 422-5010.
The hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
And try to remember:
There are Twelve Days of Christmas.
And a New Year after that.
Posted on December 24, 2012
Steel Mountains And Metal Dreams
“Richard Hunt, a Chicago-based sculptor whose works date back to the 1950s, has been selected as the public artist for Charlotte’s Romare Bearden Park,” the Charlotte Obsever reports.
Hunt is planning a work of welded stainless steel called “Memory Place” for the park, which is still under construction.
For those not familiar with him, Hunt just happens to be an internationally renown local legend with works all around the country. Let’s take a look.
Posted on December 21, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
No. Sorry.
The world was supposed to end as we slept at 11:11 (GMT).
Still here.
Something not many people know:
The Mayan civilization finally collapsed when sacrifices to the Mayan rain god Chaac were no longer allowed in public schools.
Posted on December 21, 2012
A Makeover For The Ages
“Battered by the recession and a high debt load, the Field Museum on Tuesday announced plans to cut staff, overhaul its operations and limit the scope of its research,” the Tribune reports.
“A comprehensive plan being drawn up by museum officials also could include changes to its hours of operation and the admission price for special exhibits. Staff reductions would be aimed at curators and scientists, according to museum officials.”
As usual, the Beachwood has obtained an internal document outlining detailing measures under consideration or already underway.
Posted on December 20, 2012
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Posted on December 19, 2012
By Steve Rhodes
“Would you take advice from Jenny McCarthy?” USA Today asked in October upon the news that the Sun-Times had hired the celebrity with the biggest body count as their new advice columnist.
Maybe the question should have been who would take advice from Jenny McCarthy.
Well, now we know.
Posted on December 19, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
The Case for the Separation of Church and Everything:
Evangelist Bryan Fischer announced that the little boys and girls in Newtown, Conn., died because prayer is no longer allowed in public schools.
He explained that God is a “gentleman,” and gentlemen do not go where they are not wanted.
He said children in the future will be safe if they “pray for protection” every morning in school.
Posted on December 17, 2012
