William Saletan has an amazing article over in Slate (a site I rarely agree with, except for Prudie, who I read religiously) on how the L.A. City Council is banning the construction of fast food joints in economically distressted neighborhoods.
While their intent may be good (helping people eat better), franking their methods are too nanny-state [...]

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I got an email for a BPM workshop (something I’ve been looking to go to), and thought I’d check it out.
Low and behold once I got to their site, came the most annoying pop-up ever…and does ANYONE really want to bet I won their “hourly” “prize”:

Realizing I wanted nothing to do with these clowns, I [...]

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Swordfish, grilled on a cedar plank:

Very nice…

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I had totally forgotten I had signed up for this promo, but I’m not going to turn my nose up at extra Q-miles…not at all.

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From the Park Grill at Millennium Park:

Seriously, this teeny tiny thing was like $15. Feh.

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Hizzonner is PISSED at SCOTUS for their ruling in District v. Heller. And, as any good tin pot dictator does when they don’t like how a court has ruled against them, he’s chosen to simply ignore the ruling…and not only ignore it, but throw up all sorts of FUD around it…to wit:
“What does a policeman [...]

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Easy Do-it-Yourself Pregnancy Belly Cast Kit at Babys’R’Us:

Honestly, WTF?

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This one has me close to speechless:
1. Kid registers URL with a copyrighted term in it.
2. Copyright holder sues to get it back.
3. Copyright holder wins (no shock there).
4. Kid’s mom tries to make it seem all populist what they did.
“We put up a spirited fight because we wanted to prove that you do not [...]

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Considering how horrible the rash of CPS student death has been, why would this have ever been let to go to the trash heap?
Field president and CEO John W. McCarter, Jr., is to be highly commended for stepping up and not only putting it in the Field, but doing so in such an appropriate and [...]

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As seen on an Altima in Evanston:

Don’t hate the rims, hate the game!

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