I posted the original version two years ago. Here’s the version from last year’s reunion show. They’re as fun (and sound as good) as ever. Merry Christmas!
Category: General Happenings
Advocating Pessimistic Naysaying
Barbara Ehrenreich gets me. Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to “prosper” you.…
Bloggers are Not Boycotting Downtown
Pretty much I view the anti-blogger sentiments expressed by the Citizens Community Enhancement Commission as evidence of a power struggle over information and message. I still do. However, it has come to my attention that real fear has been generated among some downtown business owners that bloggers are calling for general boycotts of downtown. Yes,…
Loss of Milan Krpan
Milan “Mile” Krpan, 76, of DeKalb, IL, died Friday October 9, 2009, at Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb. Milan was born June 21, 1933 in Sv Rok, Lovinac, Croatia, son to Ivan and Marija (Krpan) Krpan; he married Marija (Maria) Sulentic in Salzburg, Austria on December 7, 1958. Just weeks later Milan would leave Vienna,…
Castle Bank
One of many divisions of the US Department of the Treasury is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). OCC is charged with ensuring a banking system that is competitive and sound, and this has been a busy year, especially in Illinois. The OCC website offers an Enforcement Action Search. Feeding in “DeKalb,…
Confidential to the Fourth Estate
Nothing to see here. Ball’s in your court.
Small Towns Remember
We’re catching up on news after spending most of the week a half-day’s drive from here and mostly unplugged. This article from the Chronicle caught my eye. It’s about the homecoming of Army Spc. Brett Bartlett to Sycamore after four years’ service in Afghanistan and Germany. The Bartletts met Brett at 1 p.m. at O’Hare…
Random Weasels
Purely coincidental.
Shaw Suing McHenry County Blogger
During the whole water authority referendum hoo-ha I visited the McHenry County Blog a few times for its coverage of the issue. Now the publisher, Cal Skinner, is being sued by the same people who own DeKalb’s Daily Chronicle. According to the Northwest Herald: The civil lawsuit challenges Cal Skinner Jr.’s June 3 post on…
End of an Era
My son’s last day on the job was today. He’s been fired. At 12 years old.