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Here's something else I've been mulling over - if Obama has possibilities to become a real life Jeb Bartlett (there are certainly a number of commonalities -- desire to hear dissenting opinions, being...

I've been mulling this over. Maybe Obama thought it best if he's his shark. Also, assuming Obama is sincere about wanting to unify, might be a good way of removing an element that would amp up the par...

I think if you look at other county races it shows that the machine was much more of a factor than the qualities of the candidates. Compare to the other county races where the relative qualities for t...

My only small complaint about Midway is that it's not as great if you're meeting someone there. No food or drink places outside of security (except for the one stand) and no good place to wait for pe...

Not to defend red eye, and it's likely that the Trib is artificially inflating the numbers -- but don't forget that some people do work on Saturdays. Besides, isn't the conventional excuse, "I just...

I don't think that people are defending what she did or excusing it. I think they might be making the point that it's unseemly to be be smug about things like this because you don't know her life. ...

I think the menus weren't meant to be condescending to chicagoans -- I think they kept to simple foods because of the large number of kids they were serving. didn't they say 70 kids a couple of times...

I completely agree about Andrew -- coke or perhaps meth? Does it count in the $200 of special supplies they keep in their locker? My question about this episode: why did so many people turn "blini"...

Spook, you are basing your impressions of him off of a statement that is several years old. At that time, he might not have even have yet developed the condition that required treatment with medicati...

I heard the press conference this morning and they said that he had been on medication but had gone off of it and had been acting erratically in the last couple of weeks. They would not say what the ...

I was asked for an ID before receiving my ballot, and I've been voting in this precinct for a decade. I thought it was just because the judge could not understand my name verbally, even after spellin...

whole foods gives you a dime for using your own bags, and trader joe's has a monthly raffle for people who bring in their own bags. what I hate is when I'm at a store and the cashier doesn't hear me ...

Maybe this isn't such a bad thing (disregarding the fact that he may have just triggered the doomsday button) -- doesn't it seem that a significant percentage of the people who take a long time paying...

mold-a-rama! you didn't mention that wonderful plastic smell they have. now I want nothing more than to pop in the first dvd of wonderfalls (featuring a talking, deformed, mold-a-rama lion). ...

This is why I only pick up the Red Eye for the crossword. funny -- the crossword is one of the reasons I stopped picking it up. That crossword is not a challenge at all....