June 13, 2008
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JoeM500 gets ready for "Antiques Roadshow"
- Hummer owners are feeling the squeeze from high gas prices. Boo. Hoo.
- Technology in Action: Cook County Sheriff's officials are now busting prostitutes on Craigslist.
- On Sunday, DePaul PhD candidate Karen Alkolby will become the first deaf woman in U.S. history to earn a doctorate in computer science. Alkolby created a computerized dictionary that translates English to American Sign language.
- Envelopes containing white powder were sent to Alderman Ed Burke, State Senate President Emil Jones, Cook County Commissioner John Daley and State Senator John Cullerton. The powder was not harmful. Can't believe some stupid still does that.
- A monkey at a Michigan City, Indiana zoo used a garden hose to scale a wall and moat. Sweet!
- Alderman Tom Tunney introduced legislation this week allowing for GLBT employees who marry in other states to keep their domestic partner benefits.
- Matthew Sunshine, the NU student who died of binge drinking earlier this week, is memorialized on the university's famed "rock".
- Tribune Publisher Scott Smith steps down. TOC Web Editor (and former Chicagoista) Scott Smith to still share name.
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No offense to Matthew's death, but I grew up on the NU campus and that rock is disgusting. A friend of mine at a WNUR party cut into the rock and pulled it back. It was about 1 foot deep with 60 years of layers of old paint. The inside paint, probably 60 years old, was gelatinous. It was the most disgusting thing ever.
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oh, cops are busting prostitutes on craigslist? why doesn't this surprise me? i never had the "luxury" of the internet to troll for such things when i was a pothead and such, but i've always been shocked at the audacity of people who are looking to hook up with 420 and who want to go skiing and all that shit. if i were an undercover cop who wanted some pats on the back from my supervisors, i'd be trolling craigslist for a little drug bust action, to be sure.
the only thing that ever confuses me is exactly how the laws of entrapment work. but shit, if *you're* out there asking/offering the stuff, that's your own problem, right?