| G is for gone: Packers gear a hot seller
Paul Sanders was wearing a Chicago Bears hat but shopping for a Brett Favre jersey Wednesday. "I lost a bet," he said while browsing Sports & More at CherryVale Mall, 7200 Harrison Ave. So the Sycamore resident was buying something for his Packers-fan friend. A few minutes earlier, Scott Fraser of Rockford was looking at Packers gear. He'd bought a new sweater recently but was seeing what was new. "I'm not one of those bandwagon fans who only buy something when we win, like those Bears fans did last year," he said, jokingly. Whatever their reason, customers are buying a lot of Packers merchandise. "Any time a local team wins the way they did, it helps," said Bruce Janssen, a salesman at Sports & More. Packers items aren't selling as well as Bears items were during Chicago's Super Bowl run last year, he said, but Green Bay is the top team this year.
Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin
There's something to be said for loose paper menus. Unlike the leather-bound ones, they're easy to manipulate. You can fold them and slip them into your coat or purse without arousing suspicion. They're easy reference points that can be consulted again and again—as the food arrives, as you eat, as you challenge a word in the descriptions. "This shrimp tastes like lobster." Did the chef change something out? Baby wedge salad/Maytag dressing/apple wood-smoked bacon. This is the sum of words describing the classic "wedge" on the butcher paper menu at BLT Steak. "Wedge" seems too coarse a word for this delicate cross-section of lettuce with loose folds, specs of bacon in the channels and pebbles of blue cheese in the chambers. It looks like a set of concert shells or a cleaved nautilus. Shame to eat it.
A new year prayer for peace
As the year ended, the Election Tribunals, the Appeal Courts and the Supreme Court were still trying to make some sense out of the charade that was the April 2007 elections. The number of Governors, Federal as well as State Legislators already thrown out by the courts as possessing stolen mandates (with promise of many more to go) is sufficient proof of the impunity and criminality that pervaded that exercise. And what is more worrying is that just before Christmas, Local Government Elections were staged in many States. The conduct had all the features of the banditry and brigandage that characterised the April elections. See what madness has descended upon our people! Lord, in the dying days of the Obasanjo regime, the amount of corruption and fraud at the highest level of Nigerian governance would put Judas Iscariot himself to shame.
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Way to go NFL! Let us bend over again for you next season! I'm sure we will love it! The Chiefs may have had a lousy season this year, but I would still like to watch them live when I can. I prefer not to watch them on an over recorded tape when I don't have to. Once again, I had to. Thanks again NFL. Well, my time has come to sign off for the year. I have exhausted my thoughts throughout the year. Many thanks to all the Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, and Raiders fans who supported me. Thanks for all the comments and good conversations this year. I have made some good friends and started some good relationships this year. I will probably be shutting my mouth until some free agent acquisitions and draft time. It has been a pleasure to write again and I look forward to next season. Until then................GO CHIEFS!!!!! Batman out.
Abu Ghraib: ceremonies of nostalgia
The Americanisation of Iraq has first to be experienced as a visual reality if it is to be credible and tangible to those charged with carrying it out on the frontline. Like the war and occupation itself a visual reality, dependent for its domestic political support on an orchestrated flow of identitysustaining images the Abu Ghraib scenes were devised as a post 9/11 dramaturgy of American power for the pleasure of its military audience. The pornography of power The cultural addiction to militarypolitical visual command and control also explains the carnivalesque photographs of American soldiers celebrating their sexual humiliation of Iraqi men. The porno photos and tableaux are a projection of American fantasies and sexuality as power onto Iraqi bodies an annotation to the more routine photographs of daytoday sensory deprivation and engineered terror.
July 2007
I stopped into one of those "hi-tech" stores today and felt as if I had just walked onto the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Nothing made sense to me (despite the more than helpful sales associate). All the technology was way over my head. You see, I don't use an iPod, or an MP3 player, or a PSP, or a flatscreen TV, or a palm pilot (??), or a Blackberry, or a Blueberry, or a Strawberry, or a laptop, or anything wireless, or that GPS stuff, or even a cell phone. Heck, my car doesn't even have air conditioning. Personally, I resist all technology -- after all, they are the tools of SATAN! Just give me a good piece of charcoal, and a cave wall to draw on, and I'm all set! 06/29/07 @ 8:09 pm Jack Sheedy .
Let gay protection begin
The U.S. House today passed legislation to protect gay and lesbians from job discrimination. Release on the jump. Here's the roll call. Representatives Marion Berry, Mike Ross and John Boozman believe you should be able to fire someone simply because they are gay. Only 25 Democrats opposed the bill. Rep. Vic Snyder voted in the affirmative. The tide of time is with Snyder, not the troglodytes. .
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