The day’s gasoline prices are displayed at a service station Friday, March 26, 2004, in Chicago. Rising fuel prices affect Illinoins’ business large and small, from Bloomington-based State Farm, whose nationwide fleet burned 12.5 million gallons of gasoline last year, to pizza delivery drivers like college sophmore Dan Okrasinski, who figures he spends an hour … Read more
It kills pedestrians. The freeway is a deathtrap. We need to tear it down, get rid of it, before it kills again! METRO and TxDOT are failures. We should hang them all from the gallows. -b
There was one of these at the national arboretum a year or two ago. There were huge lines to get in to see it. I’ve always wanted to experience one, but still haven’t. I do think I can pass on planting one in my yard, though. An Amorphophallus titanum, known locally as … Read more
On Meet the Press, Bob Novac whines about the liberal media making “the conservatives” uphappy with George W’s unconservativity. The host says, “Bob Novac, with his syndicated column,… his own TV show,… and it’s the liberal media.” I smiled. -b
Dear Diary, Today, er… i mean Wednesday,… Mallard Fillmore actually hinted that President George W. Bush is perhaps something less than an entirely capable first executive. I would have gone outside to see if the world had stopped spinning about its axis, but Bruce Tinsley was unable to pull the trigger without making it a … Read more