Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
Apparently part of the price an elected official pays for betraying the public trust is that news photographers will click away until they capture these fallen fellows (they’re almost men) at their goofiest. And thus, Eliot Spitzer looking every bit...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
I’m relapsing back into my pre-fatherhood years. For the second weekend in a row, we went out to see live music. Saturday night found us at the Stagger Inn in Edwardsville to see the Ginn Sisters (that’s a hard G, like in gangsta) from Austin....
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
There are certain issues that keep me in the middle as opposed to being a stalwart for either of the two major parties. For example, I can’t get behind the Republicans on such things as sanctity of marriage acts or mandatory moments of silence in s...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
I Run!
They said it couldn’t be done. They said that I’d never beat "the Trail". But what I tell you, my friends, is the truth. On Saturday, midmorning, I faced down the Lost Bridge Trail and then proceeded to run its entir...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
I gave up blatant self-promotion for Lent, but I’ll lapse just long enough to provide a peak at today’s feature article in Heartland magazine on the Spice Box restaurant. Picture a laboratory on a university campus. What probably comes to mind...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
Dave already beat me to this topic, but I want to throw it open to discussion here anyway.
You’ve probably heard that a proposal is in the works to raze Cole Hall, the site of the NIU shootings, and replace it with a new $40 million facility. Count ...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
Driving home from Meijer this afternoon, Victor and I were rocking out to the Is-She-Really-Going-Out-With-Him bass groove that carries the awesome single, Study, As She Goes.
When the song ended, the DJ informed us that we had been enjoying the sounds of...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 5 months ago.
Okay people, good debate but enough of this serious crap, it’s time for more of the fluff you’ve come to expect here at BFS.
I posted this question on a message board that I frequent and it got quite the response. So here it goes:
What celebri...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
About five posts down, I found myself in the unlikely position of defending conceal carry laws. I’m not a strong proponent of such laws; I just won’t dismiss their supposed merits based on my personal dislike of guns. Anyway, there was a spiri...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
How have the times changed How has YouTube changed popular culture
On our drive home from the children’s museum in Decatur today, our kids didn’t entertain themselves by reading the Burma Shave signs. They didn’t sing Row, Row, Row You...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
My Sunday AM column today is a rebuke to those who think red lights are for running. In the interest of fairness, I wanted to post a video of the Replacement’s doing their song, Run It, to provide a counterpoint to my position. I couldn’t find...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
He remembered it was about 3:35.
A grand prize for the winner. You must be specific. Google all you want; I thought this up myself.
*Are riddles inherently dorky, or is it just me
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
In today’s SJ-R article on 5-foot roses, the last name of a subject was concealed so that his girlfriend wouldn’t find out about his Valentine’s Day surprise. Unfortunately, this girlfriend wouldn’t have to be Jessica Fletcher to f...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, as sensible a columnist as you’ll find, wrote an interesting piece last week on why, nearly six and half years after 9/11, we’ve been spared the follow-up act that we were told to expect.
In the wake of 9/...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
I promise to return with something more thought-provoking later in the week. For now, more mindless observations and petty gripes.
The square that shattered my dreams.
As some of you know, one of my life’s dreams is to successfully complete th...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
I’m not sure if I mentioned it before, but there’s a band from Boston I’m quite fond of, go by the name of Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles. Anyway, I’m posting a video for their song, Stop and Think It Over.
When we saw SBBS (t...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
A quick look at the accommodations on Super Bowl Sunday reveals who the VIPs are in my house.The kids relax in luxury while taking in a showing of Madagascar on the house’s largest television. The room is tastefully decorated and offers free wireles...
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
If you love music and are given to sentimentality, you should like this movie, a lot. I highly recommend it.
Posted by BlogFreeSpringfield 6 months ago.
Ever since the Soviet Union split up and Russia has fallen into disarray, some Americans, intent on finding the next nuclear bogeyman, have looked to China to fill us with fear of a holocaust. They are communist and fully armed after all. But a brief visi...
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