The Road We’ve Traveled Official Trailer - Obama for America 2012 (by BarackObamadotcom)
Kids These Days - Clear Eyes
this musical collective & the video for this song are just about as Chicago as it gets. if you ever get the chance to check them out anywhere around the city, do so! you may even catch them walking around a street fest or two during the summer playing their horns.
keep it local… support Chicago art!
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Magic Mountain: What Happens at Davos?
People like to project onto Davos their fears and fantasies about the way the world works. Right-wingers see insidious, delusional liberalism, in its stakeholder ethos and its pretense of world improvement. They picture a bunch of Keynesians, Continentals, and self-dealing do-gooders participating in some kind of off-the-books top-down command-control charade. Left-wingers conjure a plutocratic cabal, a Star Chamber of master puppeteers, the one per cent—or .01 per cent, really—deciding the world’s fate behind a curtain of heavy security and utopian doublespeak. The uninvited, the refuseniks, and even many of the participants see a colossal discharge of hot air, a peacock strut. They all deploy, with a sneer, the term Davos Man, coined by the late political scientist Samuel Huntington, who decried a post-national wealthy globe-trotting élite. Davos Man can be either a capitalist oppressor or a Commie conspirator. Either way, he is a windbag, a pedant, and a hypocrite. Businesspeople who have never been to Davos find many ways to be dismissive of it: “I can’t do business there.” “It’s too political.” “It’s not what it used to be.” The translation may be that that person has not been invited. Non-businesspeople assume the same. “Solipsistic wankers,” one person wrote me. “Kill the bastards,” wrote another.
Davos is, fundamentally, an exercise in corporate speed-dating. “Everyone comes because everyone else comes,” Larry Summers told me. A hedge-fund manager or a C.E.O. can pack into a few days the dozens of meetings—with other executives, with heads of state or their deputies, with non-governmental organizations whose phone calls might otherwise have been ignored—that it would normally take months to arrange and tens of thousands of Gulfstream miles to attend. They conduct these compressed and occasionally fruitful couplings, the so-called bilateral meetings, either in private rooms that the W.E.F. has set aside for this purpose or in hotel rooms, restaurants, and hallways. All that’s missing is the hourly rate.
Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict, died of an apparent asthma attack while on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria. He was 43.
Tyler Hicks, a New York Times photographer who was with Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey. - The New York TimesPhoto: Shadid interviewing residents in Cairo last February. (Ed Ou for The New York Times)
From CBS Chicago —
Have an unpaid parking ticket? Not for long…: The Chicago City Council has approved a measure that allows the city to seize drivers’ state income tax refunds if they aren’t paying their parking tickets. City officials said Chicago is owed some $400 million in unpaid tickets, $90,000 of which comes from one unlucky Chicagoan.
Do you think the city should be able to take income tax refunds from Chicagoans who have unpaid parking tickets?
Credit: chaz mo / Flickr
new life goal… accrue at LEAST $100,000 in unpaid tickets and NOT get 100 different cars booted?
Don’t forget - tomorrow is Winter Bike to Work Day!
The lowest recorded temperature in Chicago history occurred January 20, 1985 (minus 27 degrees at O’Hare!).
You can also sign up for this year’s Bike the Drive beginning tomorrow.
& if you are downtown early in the AM, Active Transportation Alliance posted that “NBC Chicago wants you to roll by the studio window in Tribune Plaza (401 N. Michigan) tomorrow for the 6am news hour on your way to the Winter Bike to Work Day rally in Daley Plaza”
who’s biking to work tomorrow??
In the latest “From the Desk of Bob Mankoff” post, our Cartoon Editor asks - with the help of some cartoons - are sexes necessary? http://nyr.kr/wY5mX9
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“Lazarus” Newt Set for Victory After K.O.’ing John King
For Gingrich, blasting away at the media is his standard routine when facing scrutiny. Anybody who has covered him knows that this is how he behaves. He did it during previous debates, although not with this kind of venom, and he did it throughout the nineteen-nineties. But King and his producers seemed stunned by Newt’s fusillade. Rather than standing up to Gingrich and pressing him about his ex-wife’s allegations, which included the affirmation that he doesn’t have the moral character to be President, King allowed him to dismiss them as unfounded (“Every personal friend in this period knows it was false”) and get in a few more shots at CNN and the rest of the “élite media” for “defending Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”
- John Cassidy writes about “one of the most bizarre twenty-four hour periods in American politics [he] can remember”: http://nyr.kr/ypBIJc](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly3usy6FRv1qav5oho1_250.jpg)
“Lazarus” Newt Set for Victory After K.O.’ing John King
For Gingrich, blasting away at the media is his standard routine when facing scrutiny. Anybody who has covered him knows that this is how he behaves. He did it during previous debates, although not with this kind of venom, and he did it throughout the nineteen-nineties. But King and his producers seemed stunned by Newt’s fusillade. Rather than standing up to Gingrich and pressing him about his ex-wife’s allegations, which included the affirmation that he doesn’t have the moral character to be President, King allowed him to dismiss them as unfounded (“Every personal friend in this period knows it was false”) and get in a few more shots at CNN and the rest of the “élite media” for “defending Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”- John Cassidy writes about “one of the most bizarre twenty-four hour periods in American politics [he] can remember”: http://nyr.kr/ypBIJc
(via @STA_CHICAGO)
these are pretty awesome… we just wish they had done one for ALL the Chicago hoods (and were selling them?)
Soldier of the Year 2010. That’s not the bullet, dork - that’s the brass casing that’s discharged after the firing pin creates an explosion to send the lead round (bullet) out the front of the barrel of the rifle… (civilians!)
