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?"
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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.
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.
The sound of Vancouver when Team Canada wins gold. Crosby scores about 1:18 in.
Will’s piece on Ebert is fantastic. Read it!
this is a brilliant, brilliant read.
Gave me chills. Such a great piece.
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.
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.
