From a comment made yesterday: I had a nightmare that the rental inspection fee made a come back in the summer of 2009, after most of the NIU students left. I don’t know what the city might be cooking up, but a new rental inspection law, HB3857, is making its way through the Illinois General…
Category: General Happenings
Open Thread 11/7/08
How about YOU choosing the topics this weekend.
HMS Orchestra: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Saved the best for last.
HMS Orchestra: Wipeout
DeKalb High School, along with Huntley and Clinton Rosette Middle Schools, presented a concert this week. This weekend I will be posting performance pieces by the Huntley crew, now under the solid direction of interim teacher Sue Thorne. Happy Halloween!
Obama vs. McCain
…in a truly enjoyable way. No, really!
DeKalb Makes a “Top 10” List
America’s 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs, to be exact. Do you recognize ours? See #3 at the above link. [H/T JC]
Zombies!
This one’s going viral and I’d hate for you to be seen as uncool by not being among the first to view it: [Update: Spoiler alert, sort of: Recommended that you watch the video before reading the comments.]
Town without Pity
Snapped downtown by Anonymous. Lyrics. Pitney.
Confidential to the Company I Kept Last Evening
Little Mary Sunshine.
A Discussion of Ethics
Lately I’ve been pondering questions of conflicts of interest in political life and recently declared (elsewhere) that since a certain act of omission by a certain politician made me trust him less, I knew he had made the wrong decision. I was mocked for it, I suppose because it sounds simplistic. Short rebuttal: It is…