It was like so great you guys! Hey, remember Hurricane Katrina? It was ten years ago, almost! It was devastating. The final death count was 1,836 in Louisiana and Mississippi, and over half of them were elderly. Eighty percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, and in poorer areas, the city is STILL rebuilding, or worse, not rebuilding. Yes, it's rebounded in many ways, and of course it's a hipster magnet, yadda yadda, but some of the things that have sprung up in the last ten years are NOT so great, like how the public schools were already failing before Katrina, but the new holy grail charter school system
It sounds more lie a neighborhood/cultural problem then a city problem. There were certainly many areas that I found disagreeable bu generally, I found it a very livable city.
That is some thought process infused with ethical standards a bronze age tribal king could cozy up to. What a fine lady with a fine, you betcha, intellect.
It made me implacable. I can't even be snarky about it. I shouldn't be commenting on this subject here. Wonkette doesn't need poison.
Oh, hey, I just remembered something about Chicago. Remember Riverview amusement park? I was just remembering the down and out black guys in striped prisoner suits, sitting in cages on these metal traps, and if you could throw a baseball at a target, the metal trap would drop out and they'd fall into a tank of icy water. The pitchers would often shout the N word at them while they tossed their baseballs. Then we'd all mosey on over to the freak show and look at deformed children. A lovely time was had by all.
Mike Royko, the great Chicago newspaper columnist, once wrote very indignantly about those black guys at Riverview. As a result, they shut down that "attraction." A few days after that happened, a bunch of those guys visited the offices of Royko's newspaper and bitterly complained about being thrown out of work. Royko said later it was a valuable lesson in the law of unintended consequences.
She reminds me exactly of a CEO who, desperate to "return stockholder value", keep the board happy, and mostly make that bonus and last in office long enough to grab that Golden Parachute, sells off the most profitable product line of a company to meet that quarter's dividend estimate. That or the asshole who saved BP $500,000 per off-shore drill and cost the company 26 billion and counting.
It sounds more lie a neighborhood/cultural problem then a city problem. There were certainly many areas that I found disagreeable bu generally, I found it a very livable city.
Sounds like you were attracted to a certain kind of entertainment.
It apparently is since you noticed it an mentioned it.
That is some thought process infused with ethical standards a bronze age tribal king could cozy up to. What a fine lady with a fine, you betcha, intellect.
I could write volumes about the place.
It made me implacable. I can't even be snarky about it. I shouldn't be commenting on this subject here. Wonkette doesn't need poison.
Oh, hey, I just remembered something about Chicago. Remember Riverview amusement park? I was just remembering the down and out black guys in striped prisoner suits, sitting in cages on these metal traps, and if you could throw a baseball at a target, the metal trap would drop out and they'd fall into a tank of icy water. The pitchers would often shout the N word at them while they tossed their baseballs. Then we'd all mosey on over to the freak show and look at deformed children. A lovely time was had by all.
right? What is lonely magnificence anyway? How about "a fucktard who lived alone because no one liked him since he was an asshole. More succinct.
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Couldn't she have come up with a better way of saying Chicago needs a douche (with solutions) without fuckin with N'alins?
Evan? I want to run away with you, Baby. Put on your running shoes.
Not enough teh BLAHs.
Well, you know, these things are only funny when they happen to someone else. Your tragedy = my comedy.
Acts of god seem more like acts of satan. I'm confused...
SRSLY?
Interesting note about that:
Mike Royko, the great Chicago newspaper columnist, once wrote very indignantly about those black guys at Riverview. As a result, they shut down that "attraction." A few days after that happened, a bunch of those guys visited the offices of Royko's newspaper and bitterly complained about being thrown out of work. Royko said later it was a valuable lesson in the law of unintended consequences.
She reminds me exactly of a CEO who, desperate to "return stockholder value", keep the board happy, and mostly make that bonus and last in office long enough to grab that Golden Parachute, sells off the most profitable product line of a company to meet that quarter's dividend estimate. That or the asshole who saved BP $500,000 per off-shore drill and cost the company 26 billion and counting.
Jesus, they wanted their old jobs back, which reinforces my impression that the place is just a neighborhood in Hell.
And then you have Cicero. Dear God, Cicero.