This is what you tell subjects of stories when you’re gathering information. “Look, I would really like you to answer questions about this. It will give your viewpoint and will make it more complete. But I’m doing this story with you or without you.” This is basic journalism.

I’m sure it’s just coincidental that the Sun-Times ran an expose about him two days ago.

“DOTcom bubble” goddamn autocorrect

There was an entire website in the early 2000s called fuckedcompany dot com that existed to document the sitcom bubble burst for crying out loud

Hey thanks! I’ll have to swing by the Mitchell Building next time I’m in Milwaukee. What a fabulous beaux-arts pile! That whole block has awesome buildings.

I’ve never seen a manhole cover like that and Google has no idea who WH Bayley & Sons was.

I could only get about halfway through it. Takeaways: “Trump has said” does a lot of heavy lifting early. And drawing equivalences between insane QAnon conspiracies and an actual island Trump visited repeatedly makes me wonder what ‘ol Dave’s travel plans were like back in the day.

Is there no penalty or threat of penalty for lying in a sworn affidavit? If there punitive sanctions for lying to the court what incentive is there for them to tell the truth ever?

That Trib design is all kinds of yikes

I guess my question for the pod is, “How often does Barry sit around in Irish pubs at 7 a.m. talking to strangers who are really undercover celebrities? How do we not know you also chatted unknowingly with Sinead O’Connor and Shane McGowan?”

Oh yes it’s been a laugh a minute with the Bears

I found this link on the internet archive. Didn’t really try it out

web.archive.org/web/20211221...

Wow I did not know about this line of the C&WT. I just knew about the one that meandered from Cicero and Cermak to LaGrange.

It looks like it was indeed because she was in transit.

Type her name into the inmate search on the bureau of prisons website and see for yourself

Well, this sure looks weird