Events

Parker had some time at the groomer's today. This is becoming almost an annual event, but fortunately for him, not quite.

Via The Daily Show:

Sometimes there are odd coincidences. Three unfortunate events in the English-speaking world happened on May 4th. Here in Chicago, 130 years ago today in 1886, the Haymarket Riot occurred near the corner of Desplaines Avenue and Randolph Street. Forty six years ago today in 1970, four students were killed at a nonviolent anti-war protest at Kent State University in Ohio. Tin soldiers and Nixon coming... And 37 years ago today in 1979, Margaret Thatcher took office as the first woman Prime Minister of...

The Argentine national football team is messing with us in this hilarious promotion: Copa América Centenario en EEUU. Lo mejor que pueden hacer es no dejarnos entrar.3 al 26 de junio #CopaAmericaEnTyC https://t.co/7g9fjOLxAh — TyC Sports (@TyCSports) May 2, 2016 TPM explains: “They’re coming from South America. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet, little people that you’d think, okay?" Trump continues. "We have no protection, anybody can come in. It’s very easy and it shouldn’t be...

Five years ago yesterday, President Obama announced to the world that U.S. forces had captured and killed Osama bin Laden. Earlier that night, after making one of the biggest decisions of his presidency, he did this: Back in September, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik made the same observation: What was really memorable about the event, though, was Trump’s response. Seated a few tables away from us magazine scribes, Trump’s humiliation was as absolute, and as visible, as any I have ever seen: his head set...

I didn't participate in the challenge this year, but one of my favorite bloggers, Deeply Trivial, did: I think the biggest indicator of success, for me, is that I didn't miss a scheduled blog post. There were days when the post came really late, and on those days, I seriously considered just waiting until tomorrow and writing two posts, or just moving a post to a Sunday. But I made myself do it, and it worked. I guess I should apply that same perseverance to other things in my life. Some lessons learned...

What happens when the smartest and coolest guy to hold the office in the last century doesn't give a shit about poll numbers anymore? Funny stuff:

Jeff Atwood blogged yesterday about the emotional abuse people heap on others over the Internet: I admired the way Stephanie Wittels Wachs actually engaged with the person who left that awful comment. This is a man who has two children of his own, and should be no stranger to the kind of pain involved in a child's death. And yet he felt the need to post the word "Junkie" in reply to a mother's anguish over losing her child to drug addiction. Isn’t this what empathy is? Putting myself in someone else’s...

Well, not really; but this is worth a view. NPR explains: Posing as her character C.J. Cregg, who was the press secretary in the critically acclaimed show that ran from 1999 until 2006, actress Allison Janney took a surprise turn on the podium to the delight and surprise of the real White House press corps. Janney ended the spoof by revealing the real reason she was at the White House: to talk about opioid addiction and what was being done to combat the problem. Her current show on CBS, Mom, deals with...

Yesterday, some of us from the Apollo Chorus were on WGN-TV in Chicago promoting our upcoming spring concert. Take a look. Our concerts will be next Friday, May 6th, at 7:30pm at the 4th Presbyterian Church in Chicago, and Sunday May 8th, 3pm, at the First United Church in Oak Park.