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By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Obama asks backers to push Congress on gun control.”
Typical of the man.
These are senators and representatives who have been bought by the gun lobby.
And they will stay bought.
Integrity still means something on Capitol Hill.
Posted on January 18, 2013
California Congresswoman Proposes New Law; Prosecutor Says She Only Sought 6 Months
“The funeral for 26-year-old US hacktivist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide after federal charges snowballed, is held at Central Avenue Synagogue in Chicago.”
Posted on January 17, 2013
By Laura Janota/Roosevelt University
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, an exhibit exploring ideas about home and power through documentary and fine art images by award-winning British photographer Edmund Clark opens for the first time in the United States on Feb. 7 at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery.
Featuring shifting notions about home and power for detainees, soldiers and staff, as well as those released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, the exhibit includes 35 photos taken by Clark shortly after Barack Obama became president in 2009.
Posted on January 16, 2013
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Walmart promises to hire 100,000 veterans.”
News Headline: “Bill would give homeless veterans unclaimed clothing from airports.”
A lot of thought has gone into honoring our veterans.
Now they will have secondhand clothing to wear when they start their underpaid jobs with no benefits.
Posted on January 16, 2013
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Scientists find evidence that the universe is a ‘giant brain.'”
News Headline: “Most galaxies in the universe are moving away from us.”
Every universe has its right to second thoughts.
Posted on January 14, 2013
By J.J. Tindall
THE TIME MACHINE
Behold a bird of diamonds:
a stylized falcon, the treasure
of Jeweler’s Row,
redolent of crow’s breath, lark skull
and jay tongue.
It soars sitting still
in a lockbox behind a gun safe,
a representation of a dream, something
of a ruse, like the storefronts
themselves there from Monroe
north to Washington.
Posted on January 11, 2013
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Inauguration Fever: The best places to party in Washington.”
Jobs are low.
Poverty is high.
The war continues.
We’ve got to do something. . . .
Toga!
Posted on January 11, 2013
He Saw Things, Man. Things.
To grow up an Emanuel (see the item Being Emanuel) means to take an intensely grand vacation somewhere exotic every year and probably get quizzed by your manic, short-tempered, impatient dad, who has really important things to do back home so hurry up and enjoy the hell out of this as fast as you can because all this “relaxing” is keeping him away from what he loves to do most: Bust skulls.
This year the winter holiday trip was 10 days in Vietnam – it either felt like five or 20 to the kids – and we thought it would be interesting to see what Rahm confronted in the local press there.
(But first, imagine if you will, Rahm the tour guide: “Here’s where Lyndon fucking Johnson lost us the White House and gave us Richard fucking Nixon, and if only that cocksucker Hubert fucking Humphrey wouldn’t have been such a fucking pussy and Gene fucking McCarthy would have shut his fucking mouth and Robert fucking Kennedy hadn’t been killed, and goddamn Bill Ayers and his fucking kook squad would have shut the fuck up, and Crosby, Stills & Nash singing ‘Chicago,’ well, fuck them, goddamn Mayor Daley should have sealed off Grant Park ahead of time like we did with NATO and then maybe we could have fucking won the damn thing because remember, kids, you never want to let a serious crisis go to waste.”)
Anyway, here were the headlines in Vietnam during Rahm’s stay there that we thought would have caught his eye:
* Vietnamese Teen Boys Crazy About Weed.
Posted on January 10, 2013
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Alabama wins national championship, routing Notre Dame.”
All right. Not so fast.
Let’s take a closer look at the college football season.
Alabama earlier lost to Texas A&M.
Texas A&M lost to Florida.
Florida lost to Louisville.
Louisville lost to Connecticut.
Connecticut lost to Syracuse.
Syracuse lost to Northwestern.
Which means. . . .
Northwestern is the 2012 National Champion.
Spread the word.
Go Cats!
Posted on January 9, 2013
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Saudi Arabia lashes abused woman for remarrying without consent.”
News Headline: “House GOP blocks Violence Against Women Act.”
It’s a small world, after all.
Posted on January 7, 2013
