lindygal
- Website: policywonksanon.blogspot.com/
- Name: M.R. Traska
- Location: far SW side
- Job: independent journalist, policy analyst & blogger
- Tell us about yourself: some nights, I'm a swing DJ and ahead of my time
Recent Comments
Oh, great: our own little oil spill disaster, but with no ocean to help disperse it so that it goes straight down into the water table. Fantastic. And the wing-nuts want *less* regulation?? Fools....
Chicagoans already need more aerobic exercise and fewer fat calories. Why would we need another junk-food purveyor, let alone one on Michigan Avenue? Because it'd be imported from elsewhere??? PHOO...
In this economy (which is a direct result of Dubya spending money he didn't have to get us into an Iraqi war we didn't need under false pretenses after his huge tax giveaways to the rich and super-ric...
It'd be nice to organize a Midwestern road trip around the FLW houses one can rent, but there are difficulties and some information changes quickly. The Bradley House in Kankakee would have made a ni...
Yeah, well, there's just this tiny problem with that suggestion: some of the biggest supporters of the South Side parade are Irish-American folks who live in the neighborhood -- and there's nothing t...
Little Red Book??!? Oh, please -- this is TOO MUCH INFORMATION. I don't want to know what other women think about it: I don't care. I am SO sick of this goddamned confessional society that forces m...
Greetings! You're welcome. You've made me wish I had cachaca in the house so I could have a cocktail while waiting for Starbuck on BSG to come on (can that girl kick ass, or what!?). Alas, Meyer's ...
Greetings! You're welcome. You've made me wish I had cachaca in the house so I could have a cocktail while waiting for Starbuck on BSG to come on (can that girl kick ass, or what!?). Alas, Meyer's ...
It all depends what neighborhood you're in. I drive around a lot, so I know some good examples of all in lots of places. I only wish some of them -- like Treasure Island and Trader Joe's -- made it ...
Way too many good burgers here -- why did we need so-so imports??? Answer: we don't! My top faves are: Top Notch on 95th in Beverly (not 95th in Oak Lawn) Fox's on 92nd and Cicero Moody's Blackie's...
Draw the curtains, kick up the thermostat a notch, and put on a flowered shirt -- then start making some passion fruit sauce to go with that dark chocolate and crushed cashew-nut mousse you're going t...
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