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By Zay N. Smith
President Obama at Veterans Day ceremonies:
“Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.”
This is how the words sound while military veterans wait an average of eight months– sometimes much more–to be processed for disability and other benefits.
To be fair, Obama can cite reasons why the delays continue.
These include blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. . . .
Posted on November 12, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
+ Rush Limbaugh the day before election day:
“All of my thinking says Romney big.”
+ Rush Limbaugh as the polls were about to close::
“I could be proven tonight to be so wrong and so all wet that nobody should be listening to me.”
So your duty is clear, Dittoheads.
You do follow directions, don’t you?
Posted on November 9, 2012
All Of Them, At Once
Performed at the Election Night That Rocks program, which can be seen in its entirety here.
The players: Ted Dayton, Jared Grant, Michael Lavallee and Natalie Matheson, each from Columbia College Chicago’s Theater Department.
Written by Stephanie Shaw.
Recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Posted on November 8, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
QT Quadrennial Offering of Solace to Whichever Half of the Nation Isn’t Happy the Morning After:
These words are being written before the polls close.
Just know about Dick Tuck.
Tuck made his fame as a political prankster who liked to go after Richard Nixon.
There was the time Nixon was starting a whistle-stop speech from the back of a train.
Tuck put on a railroad cap, grabbed a railroad lantern and waved the train out of the station.
Tuck ran for the California State Senate in 1966.
He lost.
He stepped before the public and delivered a concession speech that has not been surpassed:
“The people have spoken. . . the bastards.”
And now we move on.
Posted on November 7, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Presidential race too close to call.”
A call was placed.
“This is the residence of Irene Hughes.”
QT wishes to speak to Irene Hughes, the noted psychic.
A moment was waited.
“Hello?”
The polls say the presidential race is close. Do you have any sense of who is going to win?
“Romney is going to win.”
Really.
“Romney will win by a substantial margin.”
Thank you.
“You’re welcome.”
QT called four more psychics.
The final survey results:
+ Mitt Romney: 2
+ President Obama: 2
+ No Prediction: 1
The trend is apparent.
One day to go.
Posted on November 5, 2012
By The Elgin Area Historical Society
“Art Deco was a wildly popular design stye that originated in Paris France in the mid 1920s, and influenced art, fashion, interior design and architecture around the globe. Elgin, Illinois, played an important role in popularizing the Art Deco movement internationally. We’ll tell you how in this 30-minute cable-TV program. This production was a collaboration between the Elgin Area Historical Society and the Chicago Art Deco Society.”
Posted on November 2, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
News Item: Right-wing theorists claim President Obama used a classified military project investigating the upper atmosphere–the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program–to create Hurricane Sandy for political purposes.
Interesting.
But it is well settled that gays cause hurricanes.
Let’s not turn our backs on science, shall we?
Posted on November 2, 2012
Help Make His Dreams Come True!
Former Fruit of the Loom CEO Bill Farley is throwing a party. It has multiple levels!
See, he has a drink he wants you to try. And then he wants you to sell it.
Or is he really selling you a prosperity plan with prosperity tools for purchase? No matter, come meet his beautiful family! The pleasure will be all yours!
1. Dream Night 2013.
Posted on November 1, 2012
By Dan O’Shea
There are seasonal beers, there are holiday beers and then there are pumpkin beers.
The pumpkin beer has somehow emerged as its own market-pleasing beer style and industry segment. Other beers brewed with fruit (yes, a pumpkin is a fruit) and seasonal spices just don’t seem to inspire the same kind of passionate following – or long list of brewers – as the great pumpkin.
I remember when Buffalo Bill’s Brewery in Hayward, Calif., made the only pumpkin beer I knew of, and it was not all that long ago. Now, there are at least a dozen well-known craft breweries that do seasonal pumpkin releases, and a few hundred breweries overall that have done a pumpkin release at some point and possibly still do.
And while you would think pumpkin beers would have a fairly limited range of flavor profiles, they run anywhere from bitter to sweet to spicy to bready to creamy – that’s right – creamy.
Posted on October 31, 2012
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Hurricane Sandy stalls presidential campaign.”
News Headline: “Hurricane Sandy silences Wall Street.”
News Headline: “Hurricane Sandy takes down Gawker, Buzzfeed, HuffPo.”
Even a hurricane can have an upside.
Posted on October 31, 2012
