July 2008
4 posts
Strange Chicago #1
In the vein of the Grizzly Man Joseph Zeman known to many as the pigeon man of Lincoln Square found he got along with birds much better than he did humans. If like me you found yourself driving down Western Avenue often you would eventually be lucky enough to see an old man sitting on a fire hydrant just north of Lawrence Avenue covered (and I mean covered) in pigeons. I still remember the first...
Chicago Gangs Word Tour (of duty)
So this news story is so good I could not pass it up. I was doing a little research on what gangs have what influence in different parts of the city as I traverse through schools in various Chicago neighborhoods and stumbled upon a dozen or so articles on this phenomena.
For those of you who do not know Chicago is the birthplace of the majority of modern gangs (with the noticable exception of the...
New York's First Environmental Problem
Ok yeah heres my second post and its a repost but this is exactly the kind of thing that belongs in this blog so here it is. By the by if you like knowledge than dihard is a great blog for you.
dihard:
Was it the automobile? Was it lead from paint? Was it poor water conditions? Nope – it was horses!
That’s right. Horse manure and horse carcasses filled the streets of New York, Chicago, and...
Kinder Voting
Germany to institute voting rights for children?
In an apparent attempt to eliminate adultism (which word does not recognize as word) the German parliament is very seriously considering to instate cradle to grave voting rights. Forget 18, forget 16 (the current voting age in some German states, heck forget being of school age entirely this measure would give an equal vote to 60 year olds, 16 years...