At the Madhouse on Madison with my pops for the Blackhawks vs the Canucks.

At the Madhouse on Madison with my pops for the Blackhawks vs the Canucks.

"Why can’t I go to the Supreme Court and sit there with a gun and listen to the arguments? If a gun is so important to us on the street or someone’s home, why can’t I go to the Supreme Court and sit there with a gun? I’m not gonna shoot anyone. But, I have a right to that gun. Why can’t I go see my congressman who doesn’t believe in gun laws? Why can’t I carry my gun into congressmen’s offices or go to his home and knock on his door and say, ‘Don’t be worried. I have a gun. You want me to have a gun.’ Why is it they want to be protected by all the federal money … to protect all the federal bureaucrats, but when it comes to us in the city there’s no protection?"

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on the likely overturn of Chicago’s 28 year old handgun ban by the SCOTUS.  More from the Sun-Times

(via absurdlakefront/bnf; tylercoates; southpol; ericmortensen; newsandbooze)

The problem that I have with this is that he’s trying to turn it into some type of concealed/open carry argument, when that’s not even on the table. People just want to be able to have a handgun to protect their home in the city of Chicago. There is no public carrying legislation being talked about.

That aside, this argument is coming from a man who’s been protected by a security detail armed with handguns nearly his entire life.

jayparkinsonmd:

hiten:

 How Fast Food Packaging Should Be Designed 


Yes. Yes. Yes. There is so much win in this. Now, I love me some Portillo’s. And I think they put crack sauce in Potbelly sandwiches. Every time I go through St. Louis I stop at Lion’s Choice. But other than those couple of vices, I haven’t had Wendy’s since 2008. No McDonald’s since 2004. A single drunken mistake led to a break in my Taco Bell-less streak since 2002. I haven’t touched Burger King since 2001. And I can’t remember when I drank my last Coke.
It’s weird thinking that I know dates of the last times I ate fast food. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s no different than alcohol or drugs. It’s addicting, and people need to make a conscious effort to not indulge in it.

jayparkinsonmd:

hiten:

How Fast Food Packaging Should Be Designed

Yes. Yes. Yes. There is so much win in this. Now, I love me some Portillo’s. And I think they put crack sauce in Potbelly sandwiches. Every time I go through St. Louis I stop at Lion’s Choice. But other than those couple of vices, I haven’t had Wendy’s since 2008. No McDonald’s since 2004. A single drunken mistake led to a break in my Taco Bell-less streak since 2002. I haven’t touched Burger King since 2001. And I can’t remember when I drank my last Coke.

It’s weird thinking that I know dates of the last times I ate fast food. But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s no different than alcohol or drugs. It’s addicting, and people need to make a conscious effort to not indulge in it.

File under: The worst thing I have seen on the internet today.

File under: The worst thing I have seen on the internet today.

fuckyeahcanada:

blownspeakers:

The sound of Vancouver when Team Canada wins gold. Crosby scores about 1:18 in.

nedhepburn:

marklisanti:

Will’s piece on Ebert is fantastic. Read it!

this is a brilliant, brilliant read.

Gave me chills. Such a great piece.

fuckyeahcanada:

(img via fatmanatee)

The internet has been conquered for the day.

fuckyeahcanada:

(img via fatmanatee)

The internet has been conquered for the day.

Type in “chel” into Google and the first result is a missing blue-eyed white teenager who drives a BMW, which will yield 29 million results, including more than 2,200 news stories.
Type in Nieja Patterson — a 14-year-old black girl from Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood who went missing less than 24 hours after Chelsea King — and you get 400 results and two news stories.

Type in “chel” into Google and the first result is a missing blue-eyed white teenager who drives a BMW, which will yield 29 million results, including more than 2,200 news stories.

Type in Nieja Patterson — a 14-year-old black girl from Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood who went missing less than 24 hours after Chelsea King — and you get 400 results and two news stories.

Another country in the wake of a massive disaster.

maxhell:

Looks like the newswires are reporting “looting” again. seriously? I think there needs to be a redefinition to the word looting to exclude suffering people who are taking food from a collapsed grocery store. That is all.

I was in Costco on Saturday with my parents. The best way I can describe that place is a zombie traffic jam with fits of feeding frenzies when the sample stations bring out a fresh batch of food. Seriously. People just kind of shuffle around the store staring at food, but when they set out a tray, BOOM, they’re on it.

Then, after we had checked out and I was choking down a slice of overly greasy pizza, I thought, do you know just how insane shit will get if there is ever a disaster in America (that doesn’t include water flooding an entire city like Katrina) on the scale of Haiti/Chile?

We are armed to the teeth. It will be a bloodbath over a giant box of oreos.

"To put the numbers in perspective, Sunday’s game drew a higher overnight rating than every World Series game since 2004 (including every game of Yankees/Phillies last year), every NBA Finals telecast since 1998, and every NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four game since at least ‘98."
Sports Media Watch. I thought no one cared about hockey?
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