According to the Sun-Times headline, Palin wants to fight kids at Highland Park high school? I'll be there. What time?

May. 13, 2010
Top story:‚  Sarah Palin was in town yesterday. I wouldn't have known, but thankfully the Sun-Times yelled at me this morning at the bus stop. Sun-Times front page: Hey...PSSST! LOOK HERE! Me: What?

Who stabs themselves? If you have to stab yourself, please do it in a different city

May. 11, 2010
Top story: So the guy who was allegedly roughed up and stabbed along Chicago's Riverwalk did it to himself. I apologize blog-o-sphere. When this happened, I pined on about how un-safe Chicago was becoming. Or, more accurately, how we may have an image problem brewing.

What? Betty White hosted SNL? Why didn't any of the news outlets tell me?

May. 10, 2010

New Pepsi commercial uses real MLB players as themselves. Except for Cubs player, who was an actor. What gives?

May. 7, 2010
Top story: Have you seen the new Pepsi commercial where the real-live baseball players are talking to each other on the basepath/diamond about what they would do to better their communities? Here it is:

Can I get a voucher to move cubicles? They have nicer ones on the 3rd floor

May. 6, 2010

Who has better fake supporters? Cohen? Quinn? Brady? Giannoulias?

May. 4, 2010
Top story: Vinny is gone. The Trib reports the firing using sources. I guess it pays off to have a beat writer up there all the time. Now we get the story before the actual story.‚  That's the news business! What's the point of even having a press conference?

Why stop at airlines? United should merge with Worlds Largest Ball of Twine

May. 3, 2010

Cop defense: It wasn't alcohol. It was shots of water. Is that a thing?

Apr. 29, 2010
Top story: I saw this DUI story in the news earlier this week and now John Kass has written more specifically about the case today. The striking item about this case is that there is surveillance of the cop drinking at a bar. He is doing shot after shot.

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