EZ: You confused me with this item: "“Next time you want to dress up at the rallies, wear the right-f**king-colored coats.”"
Exactly why is the word "fuck" spelled with two asterisks. when you always use the entire word?
As for Brandon Johnson refusing to answer why he turned down Catholic Charities offers of empty school & church buildings, the actual answer is easy.
He & his buddies in the leadership of the teachers union are getting kickbacks from the private companies hired to run the various shelters, that the city is paying a large fortune of out tax money to operate!
I said to my wife right after the State to the Union that I really wanted the media to start asking every right-wing nutjob making disingenuous and cynical issue out of the murder in Georgia if they can name one person killed in Parkland, Highland Park, Pulse night club, Uvalde, etc. I think the failure to do so is media malpractice.
The tweet of the week contest after all this time has made me realize I'm the only one of your readers who knows what's funny. I'm used to it though, ever since high school I'm the only person who ever knows who the good bands are.
Well I definitely will submit to the Tune of the Week. This is English singer-songwriter/troubadour Frank Turner. He's in his early 40s and this song is from 2011 when he was around 30. He grew up listening to heavy metal music and joined a hardcore punk band when he was young. At some point in his early-mid 20s someone gave him a copy of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and it changed his musical direction. He now fuses punk and folk traditions and a decent amount of his songs are sociopolitical. He's kind of the Millennial version of Billy Bragg. He has a new album coming out so I thought about posting his brand new single that was just released to go with a REALLY recent track. But this is just one of his best songs and a really fun video.
Laura Washington's column about shrinking portion sizes reminded me of an old Andy Rooney segment where he complained about toilet paper roll sizes shrinking to mask increased cost. Which lead to "double sized" rolls coming out which would just be the same size as the prior standard size.
The question for each restaurant is whether its customers would respond better to even higher price increase or smaller portion sizes.
Rather than robotically following whatever rules of grammar one adheres to, how a sentence sounds is should be taken into account. In regard to the sentence, “None of the books was/were returned”, “were” just sounds better. I think it’s because if you delete the “None of,” you would definitely say, “The books were returned.” So, I’m thinking that “None” serves as an adjective rather than a noun.
I have to wonder what interview fell through to make Laura Washington pen that whiny screed about restaurant prices. She leaves no cliche unquoted: "Serving sizes have shrunk to the point that I need to put on my eyeglass readers to wield a knife and fork." Really? Complaining that she can buy food cheaper at TJ's and Whole Foods? It was ever thus. And the difference between four glass pours per bottle (her ideal) and five glass pours per bottle (infuriating) is one ounce per glass.
It is interesting just how stupid the CTU thinks that people are. Hey Eric, do you have any suggestions to good, objective papers that explore what the problems of the CPS system are, their cause and possible solutions?
In the CTU comments, EZ left out the obvious sympathetic complicity of the CPS board. The CPS board, appointed by Mayor Johnson, casually accepted the CTU assertion that the event is not political and said there was no ethics problem, so participation is fine. I'll bet that decision took seconds of deep thought.
EZ , Mayor Johnson believes that he has his comms act together. They don't like or accept pesky questions from reporters, or anyone else. They also feel no obligation to respond to 'attacks', and all questions are attacks. They have already stated on several occasions that they believe the local news media is 'against' them. And, like Stacey Davis-Gates, the mayor knows that snappy, flip responses play to their base. They also bet that time is on their side. The media and public will forget and move on from any individual issue.
The only thing worse than the Bears and Sox asking for public money is the willingness of local politicians to listen and look for ways to provide it. I also hope that everyone will multiply the estimates by at least 2, since no public project has ever come in on budget.
I have zero respect for the CTU at this point. Wow, that was fast. There was a time, not so long ago, when I held the group and its leadership in high esteem and could even imagine supporting Karen Lewis for mayor! I wish the word "hacktivist" wasn't already taken for cyber criminals. I would like to use it for hack activists -- as in, not only shrill and one-sided but really bad at it besides -- who have taken over the union and City Hall too.
The indoctrination "field trip" is outrageous. I loved where the original letter said something to the effect, Isn't it annoying to be faced with "conflicting information" when you're a young voter? Yeah, all those pesky opinions and ideas floating around! I guess we could teach civics and give students the tools they need to make sense of current events. Or we could really streamline that process and just tell kids what to think and how to vote. With art and dance!
Mayor Johnson is more like Mayor Lightfoot than he might like to believe. Both Mayors think that failures and opposition are due to ignorant or evil opponents. The Mayors believe that their desires should be obviously righteous and correct to all. So, opponents are not adult and any comments they make are not valid.
I'm missing something here. The homebuilders, realtors, and other businesses are being treated as if they oppose helping the homeless. That's the feeling I get from reading the comments about those supporting the initiative. Have any of the supporters ask any of the naysayers whether or not they oppose helping the homeless? The question is how to fund it. It's been all over the news the past few years about those packing up and leaving Chicago. The transfer tax won't mean much unless people stay and buy and sell houses. Usage of were or was? I am not an English major. I have not studied journalism. I think I probably represent 95% or more of the public in saying that. It's about communication. Did the message get through? I understand the struggles of those that wish to preserve a finer style of writing and speaking the language. However(notice I did not use the more common "but") in ordinary conversation, I believe we can overthink it. I know from reading this forum there are some extremely educated, well thought out people that express themselves quite nicely. Me? I'm a prosaic guy that spends the vast amount of his time talking to people not quite that educated. We talk plainly and somehow manage to get our messages across. I also wish to refer to the former ebonics in schools debate a decade or more ago. The big argument there was about the manner of speaking of black people. One side said they needed to learn to speak proper English to move up in the world. The claim of supporters was that blacks could understand each other just fine and shouldn't be judged for doing it. Who won? Now we have Internet speak which works just fine as long as people don't actually meet in person. I don't know- am I being too plain in talking about this?
EZ: You confused me with this item: "“Next time you want to dress up at the rallies, wear the right-f**king-colored coats.”"
Exactly why is the word "fuck" spelled with two asterisks. when you always use the entire word?
As for Brandon Johnson refusing to answer why he turned down Catholic Charities offers of empty school & church buildings, the actual answer is easy.
He & his buddies in the leadership of the teachers union are getting kickbacks from the private companies hired to run the various shelters, that the city is paying a large fortune of out tax money to operate!
It is the classic Chicago Way!
I said to my wife right after the State to the Union that I really wanted the media to start asking every right-wing nutjob making disingenuous and cynical issue out of the murder in Georgia if they can name one person killed in Parkland, Highland Park, Pulse night club, Uvalde, etc. I think the failure to do so is media malpractice.
The tweet of the week contest after all this time has made me realize I'm the only one of your readers who knows what's funny. I'm used to it though, ever since high school I'm the only person who ever knows who the good bands are.
Was versus were? I was told there'd be no homework on Picayune Sentinel.
Well I definitely will submit to the Tune of the Week. This is English singer-songwriter/troubadour Frank Turner. He's in his early 40s and this song is from 2011 when he was around 30. He grew up listening to heavy metal music and joined a hardcore punk band when he was young. At some point in his early-mid 20s someone gave him a copy of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and it changed his musical direction. He now fuses punk and folk traditions and a decent amount of his songs are sociopolitical. He's kind of the Millennial version of Billy Bragg. He has a new album coming out so I thought about posting his brand new single that was just released to go with a REALLY recent track. But this is just one of his best songs and a really fun video.
https://youtu.be/sZ-D4jmkUiQ?si=6NCvem4c9Ewmkz7d
Laura Washington's column about shrinking portion sizes reminded me of an old Andy Rooney segment where he complained about toilet paper roll sizes shrinking to mask increased cost. Which lead to "double sized" rolls coming out which would just be the same size as the prior standard size.
The question for each restaurant is whether its customers would respond better to even higher price increase or smaller portion sizes.
Rather than robotically following whatever rules of grammar one adheres to, how a sentence sounds is should be taken into account. In regard to the sentence, “None of the books was/were returned”, “were” just sounds better. I think it’s because if you delete the “None of,” you would definitely say, “The books were returned.” So, I’m thinking that “None” serves as an adjective rather than a noun.
I have to wonder what interview fell through to make Laura Washington pen that whiny screed about restaurant prices. She leaves no cliche unquoted: "Serving sizes have shrunk to the point that I need to put on my eyeglass readers to wield a knife and fork." Really? Complaining that she can buy food cheaper at TJ's and Whole Foods? It was ever thus. And the difference between four glass pours per bottle (her ideal) and five glass pours per bottle (infuriating) is one ounce per glass.
It is interesting just how stupid the CTU thinks that people are. Hey Eric, do you have any suggestions to good, objective papers that explore what the problems of the CPS system are, their cause and possible solutions?
In the CTU comments, EZ left out the obvious sympathetic complicity of the CPS board. The CPS board, appointed by Mayor Johnson, casually accepted the CTU assertion that the event is not political and said there was no ethics problem, so participation is fine. I'll bet that decision took seconds of deep thought.
EZ , Mayor Johnson believes that he has his comms act together. They don't like or accept pesky questions from reporters, or anyone else. They also feel no obligation to respond to 'attacks', and all questions are attacks. They have already stated on several occasions that they believe the local news media is 'against' them. And, like Stacey Davis-Gates, the mayor knows that snappy, flip responses play to their base. They also bet that time is on their side. The media and public will forget and move on from any individual issue.
The only thing worse than the Bears and Sox asking for public money is the willingness of local politicians to listen and look for ways to provide it. I also hope that everyone will multiply the estimates by at least 2, since no public project has ever come in on budget.
I have zero respect for the CTU at this point. Wow, that was fast. There was a time, not so long ago, when I held the group and its leadership in high esteem and could even imagine supporting Karen Lewis for mayor! I wish the word "hacktivist" wasn't already taken for cyber criminals. I would like to use it for hack activists -- as in, not only shrill and one-sided but really bad at it besides -- who have taken over the union and City Hall too.
The indoctrination "field trip" is outrageous. I loved where the original letter said something to the effect, Isn't it annoying to be faced with "conflicting information" when you're a young voter? Yeah, all those pesky opinions and ideas floating around! I guess we could teach civics and give students the tools they need to make sense of current events. Or we could really streamline that process and just tell kids what to think and how to vote. With art and dance!
If it was good enough for Alfred the Great, it's good enough for me.
Mayor Johnson is more like Mayor Lightfoot than he might like to believe. Both Mayors think that failures and opposition are due to ignorant or evil opponents. The Mayors believe that their desires should be obviously righteous and correct to all. So, opponents are not adult and any comments they make are not valid.
I'm missing something here. The homebuilders, realtors, and other businesses are being treated as if they oppose helping the homeless. That's the feeling I get from reading the comments about those supporting the initiative. Have any of the supporters ask any of the naysayers whether or not they oppose helping the homeless? The question is how to fund it. It's been all over the news the past few years about those packing up and leaving Chicago. The transfer tax won't mean much unless people stay and buy and sell houses. Usage of were or was? I am not an English major. I have not studied journalism. I think I probably represent 95% or more of the public in saying that. It's about communication. Did the message get through? I understand the struggles of those that wish to preserve a finer style of writing and speaking the language. However(notice I did not use the more common "but") in ordinary conversation, I believe we can overthink it. I know from reading this forum there are some extremely educated, well thought out people that express themselves quite nicely. Me? I'm a prosaic guy that spends the vast amount of his time talking to people not quite that educated. We talk plainly and somehow manage to get our messages across. I also wish to refer to the former ebonics in schools debate a decade or more ago. The big argument there was about the manner of speaking of black people. One side said they needed to learn to speak proper English to move up in the world. The claim of supporters was that blacks could understand each other just fine and shouldn't be judged for doing it. Who won? Now we have Internet speak which works just fine as long as people don't actually meet in person. I don't know- am I being too plain in talking about this?