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This Is Rich

DrX — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:47:39 -0500

Roman Polanski blames Pill for masculinizing women. "I think that now offering flowers to a lady becomes indecent, that's how I feel about it," he told a news conference after a well-received screening of his film. It's terrible. It has even become indecent for a 43-year-old film director have have sex with a 13-year-old girl primed with alcohol and sedatives. [/sarc] the filmmaker said he thought feminism and advances in contraception had blurred the distinctions between the sexes. One old...

Sullivan and the Race-IQ Controversey

DrX — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:01:51 -0500

I've been getting loads of traffic to three old posts because of another round in the Andrew Sullivan-IQ-and-race brouhaha. So I'm pushing them up front, as links, for those who are interested and may have missed them the first time around. This is the first of the three posts, which includes links to the follow-up posts on the subject.

Flickr Revamp

DrX — Sat, 25 May 2013 14:44:19 -0500

Since Yahoo purchased the photosharing site Flickr, there has been a great deal of talk about modernization of the long-neglected platform. The site needed to make some improvements, but no one expected what happened a few days ago, when users logged into their accounts and exclaimed one and all: WTF IS THIS MESS? A major overhaul, coinciding with Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr, was instituted without warning. It was all very confusing and there are reasonable questions about whether the radical...

Athletic Director Pulls Baseball Team From Playoffs Over Sexting

DrX — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:20:43 -0500

Chicago Tribune: The athletic director of Evanston Township High School has pulled the varsity baseball team from the state playoffs after "inappropriate photos" of girls at the school were distributed among some players, officials said. The team was supposed to play Taft High School in the first round of playoffs Friday evening. But the school informed the Illinois High School Association that it would forfeit the game -- and hence the playoffs -- because there were "not enough players to...

Psychoanalysts In Their Offices

DrX — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:13:36 -0500

An interesting photo series. I posted a link to some of this work a while back, but I see there are newer images up. H/T: Cheryl Fuller.

Local Shots

DrX — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:19:44 -0500

Edgewater Beach Apartments, Chicago.

Quote of the Day

DrX — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:07:00 -0500

A district representative said that [the teacher, Jonathan Hampton] was suspended because, given the totality of the circumstances, school officials had determined that he made inappropriate use of the banana. --story.

What Do Your Parents Do?

DrX — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:08:58 -0500

Friends' kid, 2nd grade assignment, questions and his answers.* Q: What does your father do? A: nothing Q: What does your mother do? A: nothing really * Parents occupations are linked.

Panhandlers On The Road

DrX — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:41:39 -0500

DNA Chicago: WICKER PARK — As sure as the swallows return every spring to San Juan Capistrano, Chicago has its "travelers" — transient, footloose 20-somethings who, when the weather warms, arrive here from around the country. In neighborhoods such as Wicker Park, these bands of scruffy, homeless youth get by through panhandling, though not everyone appreciates the presence of what some call "gutter punks." "We travel for fun, to do something other than wake up in the exact same place...

IRS Cincinnati Office

DrX — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:38:05 -0500

No, this isn't about the Cincinnati IRS holding up applications for non-profit status filed by certain conservative organizations. This is about the employees in a different department at the IRS Cincinnati office. You may recall that the IRS sent us a huge bill for an issue stemming from a supposed paperwork error that we believe occurred on their end. It was all about a missing one-page form that they said wasn't filed, but we have a copy and say it...

Local Shots

DrX — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:00:16 -0500

Apartments Back doors below the fold.

Sunday Cliché

DrX — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:31 -0500

600 Free Cups Of Coffee

DrX — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:07:11 -0500

Below: Lottery Director Mike Jones is interviewed at a cafe that's giving away 600 cups of coffee paid for by the Illinois Lottery Office. The coffee giveaway is in celebration of the record-breaking $600 million dollar Powerball jackpot drawing tonight. Lots of people are accepting the free coffee and saying things like: Huh? But why free coffee? There were several satellite trucks parked nearby and more reporters were waiting to interview Jones. Lottery directors aren't usually all that visible, but...

Win an IPad

DrX — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:20:31 -0500

Reader Shots

DrX — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:03:32 -0500

Office Life. Photo by Retriever.