I was lucky enough to attend Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park. It was both dull—I could have watched CNN at home, and that’s what I did for most of the rally—and awe-inspiring. How often does it happen that so many people come together to celebrate something other than a sports championship? The number [...]
I’m going to try very hard not to overload B&S with political crap—who really needs more of the stuff?—but this is just too good to pass up:
The Daily Show at it’s finest. The researchers on their team who come up with this stuff do great work.
Lately I’ve been reading a history of Chicago, Chicago: Crossroads of American Enterprise1. It’s a popular history, published in 1944, and it follows the style and approach that you’d expect of a book of that vintage. The prose tends towards a purplish hue at times, and “man” is used as a synonym for “people.” But [...]
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