Category: Sell Out

The Devil We Don’t, Part 2

This starts bad and ends very bad. Good lord. Click through for the full primer on the G8 from Ben Joravsky at The Reader.   On December 14, Mayor Emanuel introduced several proposals related to the summits. The ones that got the most coverage would have raised fines for resisting arrest and imposed new requirements for […]

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Try Not to Weep

Seriously. This is some of the worst news I’ve heard in a long while. Combined with the The Emmanuel’s crackdown on free speech, I am suppressing the urge to scream. Copyright law in the United States is incredibly complex. This ruling was made to comply with international copyright law, and as such, it makes a drop of […]

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The Devil We Don’t

I am seriously beginning to wonder if we haven’t traded an Emperor for an Autocrat here in Chicago. This is from yesterday – SOPA and all. If you haven’t heard, Emmanuel has a whole boatload of awful propositions that will essentially strangle the life out of protests in Chicago. The linked Reader article below starts […]

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Why Can’t I Quit You?

I came across this quick breakdown of sales figures for December 2011 for the comics industry on Tumblr, began to write some thoughts and decided to share them. First, pie! This also accompanied the graph: Marvel Comics has come out on top in terms of sales last month, knocking DC Comics from its three-month streak […]

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Daley is a Warm Coke

“Mr. Daley brings significant public policy expertise and experience in creating sustainable growth opportunities for businesses and communities to our company,” Coca-Cola Chief Executive Muhtar Kent said in a statement. via Chicago Tribune’s Wailin Wong Way to be doubly way-the-fuck-wrong, Muhtar Kent! To begin with “significant … expertise” is redundant, jackass.  I do not believe the […]

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