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Slew of tax, fee, fine hikes across the city of Chicago

Slew of tax, fee, fine hikes across the city :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State.

Rahm & Vayd Sledding

What a fantastic time we had with Uncle Skye, Aunt Amanda, Zoe & Isaac! Rahm and Vayd are now wild about sledding.

You Spin Me Round, Rahm, Baby, Round Rahm

Vayd Loves The Rocking-Horse

Vayd Loves The Rocking-Horse

Originally uploaded by bluescreenmusic

This was taken back in 2007 at my family’s house in Glen Ellyn. Vayd discovered, and immediately fell in love with, the rocking-horse in Nana’s back porch.

James Carville sounds off on Glenn Beck

“I think he’s nuts, OK?,” the outspoken Democrat said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”–

“Just out-and-out nuts. And I also think that he’s a blatant hypocrite,” Carville said. “Here’s somebody that sits on his show … weeping about how much he loves America and … and then he’s absolutely giddy when his country doesn’t get the Olympics. And this is — I’ll tell you another thing about Glenn Beck. He wouldn’t know the difference between a football, a bat and a hockey court. This guy is not — he’s just all — he’s just all weeping.”

This is nice work from Smeagol, whose own mental agility was recently lampooned to great effect on Saturday Night Live:

Still, very nicely done.

via CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – Beck is ‘out and out nuts,’ Carville says « – Blogs from CNN.com.

I remember first learning about the summer triangle when I was about 7 years old. Tucked away in the pages of H.A. Rey’s The Stars, I discovered that the stars with the greatest magnitude in Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila form a large triangle in the summer night sky. This curiosity is not a proper constellation, I was told, but an asterism– an accidental shape appearing through a purely fortuitous interplay between members of established constellations. It was not until college that I was reminded of the summer triangle by my astronomy professor, David Slavsky, who arranged for members of our class to meet atop one of the tallest buildings on Loyola University’s Lake Shore campus at 3 a.m. in order to witness a rare meteor shower.

Tonight, I happened to glance up at the night sky while transferring one of my sleeping boys from the car to the house and was surprised to discover the summer triangle staring back down at me.

To the extent that anything like constants exist in this world, they are embodied in the stars.